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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: Liverpool |
| Start date: Sep. 1874 |
| End date: Nov. 1874 |
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| Notes: |
| This is the first part of a long match between Burn and Owen that lasted from Sept. 1874 to Dec. 1875. Forster gives a full description, dividing the match into 6 stages, with the months in which each stage was played. Because the match was so long, I have split it into two parts, the first consisting of the games played in 1874 and the second the games played in 1875. The first 3 stages, as given by Forster, were played in 1874 and are included here, covering the months Sept. to Nov. 1874. Sergeant (p.163) gives a result of +6-4=2 for Burn and (p.167) gives another result (dated 1875) of +10-5 'and some draws'. Probably these two are confounded. The City of London Chess Magazine of Dec. 1875 (p.327) gives the +10-5 result. Di Felice gives a result +4-4 as having been played between Burn and Owen in Liverpool in 1874 as well as the final result of this entire match +11-6=3 for Burn, as having been played in London in 1875. It is not clear where the +4-4 result came from, though it may be a distortion of the result in this match as of the end of 1874 when Burn had scored 8 wins and Owen 4 (as well as 3 draws). Feenstra Kuiper gives only the total score with date 1875 and location London. Forster gives the location as Liverpool. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 60, 61 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 20 |
| Forster, Amos Burn, page 129 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 267 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 163 |
| Periodicals |
| [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 9, Oct. 1874, page 211 |
| [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 10, Nov. 1874, page 236 |
| [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 11, Dec. 1874, page 271 |
| [CLCM], vol. 2, no. 1, Feb. 1875, page 8 |
| [CLCM], vol. 2, no. 11, Dec. 1875, page 327 |
| [Fld], 3 Oct. 1874 |
| [HCM], vol. 3, no. 4, Jan. 1875, page 80 |
| [HCM], vol. 4, no. 5, Feb. 1876, page 109 |
| Web |
| Kingston, Taylor. [Don't Bet the Farm or Scholar's Concern Tempers Stat-Freak's Delight], page 13 |
| Sericano, C. [I matches 1865/79] |
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