MacDonnell, G.A. – Wisker, J. 1873




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
MacDonnell, George    2513 (48) 3.5/
Wisker, John    2500 (35) 0.5/
 
Status: formal

Event table notes

Event data
Place: Bristol
Start date: 4 Aug. 1873
End date: 9 Aug. 1873
 
Notes:
Feenstra Kuiper and Di Felice give location as London; La Grande Storia degli Scacchi gives Bristol; Sergeant and the Chess Player's Chronicle of Aug. 1873 (supplement 1) describe the match as played at the Counties Chess Association meeting at Clifton (a suburb of Bristol), which took place 4-9 Aug. 1873.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 58
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 20
   Forster, Amos Burn, page 86
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 379
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 161
   Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 304, 569
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 285
Periodicals
   [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 12, Jan. 1875, page 295
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. supp.1, Aug. 1873, page 5
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 11, Oct. 1873, page 321
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 1873, page 353
   [Era], vol. 35, no. 1821, 17 Aug. 1873, page 3
   [Fld], 9 Aug. 1873
   [Fld], 16 Aug. 1873
   [WP], vol. 7, no. 9, 1 Jan. 1875, page 171
Web
   Mann, Steve.  [Yorkshire Chess History - John Wisker]
   Sericano, C.  [I matches 1865/79]

Match information updated: 25 Dec. 2021