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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: 6 Aug. 1872 |
| End date: Sep. 1872 |
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| Notes: |
| Hooper and Whyld give date as Sept. 1872; Giffen gives Aug. - Sept. 1872; Di Felice gives 6 Aug. to Sept. 1872; Sergeant gives the start date as 8 Aug. 1872; The Chess Player's Chronicle of Dec. 1872 (v.3, p.167) gives the date of the first game as 6 Aug. 1872. The Westminster Papers of 1 Sep. 1872 (pp.65,71) give 6 Aug. as the start date. Staunton, in the 24 Aug. 1872 issue of the Illustrated London News, says the match was underway with the score at +4-0=2 for Steinitz, and in the 21 Sept. 1872 issue he gives the final result. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Adams, Mikhail Chigorin, page 407 |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 54 |
| Elo, Rating of Chessplayers, page 90 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 19 |
| Forster, Amos Burn, page 82 |
| Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 310, 352 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 231 |
| Harding, Steinitz in London, page 209, 347 |
| Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 330, 387 |
| Moran, World Chess Championship I, page 3 |
| Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 147 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 159 |
| Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 467, 591 |
| Winter, Chess Facts and Fables, page 135 |
| Periodicals |
| [BaH], 12 Oct. 1872 |
| [BDE], vol. 52, no. 86, 27 Mar. 1892, page 17 |
| [BLL], no. 2724, 14 Sep. 1872, page 4 |
| [CPC], vol. 3, no. 5, Oct. 1872, page 150 |
| [DCJ], vol. 8, no. 62, Apr. 1875, page 199 |
| [EnM], 13 Sep. 1872 |
| [Era], vol. 34, no. 1771, 1 Sep. 1872, page 13 |
| [Era], vol. 35, no. 1773, 15 Sep. 1872, page 7 |
| [ILN], vol. 61, no. 1720, 24 Aug. 1872, page 192 |
| [ILN], vol. 61, no. 1724, 21 Sep. 1872, page 287 |
| [LBMD], 16 Sep. 1872 |
| [WP], vol. 5, no. 5, 1 Sep. 1872, page 65, 71 |
| [WP], vol. 5, no. 6, 1 Oct. 1872, page 81, 85 |
| Web |
| Cree, Graeme. [1886 Steinitz-Zukertort World Championship Match] |
| Giffen, Glen. [Events Timeline] |
| Giffen, Glen. [Steinitz, Wilhelm] |
| Sericano, C. [I campionati del mondo fino al 1885] |
| Sericano, C. [I matches 1865/79] |
| [Steinitz vs. Zukertort 1886, Part 3], page 3 |
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