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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: 5 Mar. 1873 |
| End date: 5 Apr. 1873 |
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| Notes: |
| Feenstra Kuiper and Di Felice give result as +6-6=0; Sergeant, Sunnucks, Golombek, Zavatarelli, and Hooper and Whyld give +6-6=1; La Grande Storia degli Scacchi gives 7-7. The Apr. 1873 issue of the Chess Player's Chronicle gives partial result +3-2=2 for Bird (unnumbered page); the Illustrated London News of 5 Apr. 1873 gives partial result +5-4=2 for Bird; the 26 Apr. 1873 issue of the Illustrated London News says the match was drawn; the June 1873 issue of the Chess Player's Chronicle (unnumbered page) says the match was given up when each player had scored 6 games. The information from the Illustrated London News and the Chess Player's Chronicle suggests that the result was +6-6=2, consistent with the score given by La Grande Storia degli Scacchi and by Tim Harding. The 8 Mar. 1873 issue of Land and Water gives the start date as 5 Mar. 1873 (information from Tim Harding). The date of the final game is given in the Westminster Papers of 1 May 1873 (p.9). |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 58 |
| Elo, Rating of Chessplayers, page 90 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 20 |
| Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 344 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 118 |
| Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 379 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 161 |
| Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 569 |
| Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 285 |
| Periodicals |
| [BaH], 17 May 1873 |
| [CPC], vol. 3, no. 8, Apr. 1873, page 251 |
| [CPC], vol. 3, no. 9, June 1873 |
| [EnM], 11 Apr. 1873 |
| [Fld], 12 Apr. 1873 |
| [HCM], vol. 1, no. 7, Apr. 1873, page 135 |
| [HCM], vol. 1, no. 8, May 1873, page 156 |
| [ILN], vol. 62, no. 1753, 5 Apr. 1873, page 330 |
| [ILN], vol. 62, no. 1756, 26 Apr. 1873, page 403 |
| [LW], 8 Mar. 1873 |
| [WP], vol. 5, no. 12, 1 Apr. 1873, page 187 |
| [WP], vol. 6, no. 1, 1 May 1873, page 1, 8 |
| Web |
| Mann, Steve. [Yorkshire Chess History - John Wisker] |
| Sericano, C. [I matches 1865/79] |
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