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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: New York |
| Start date: 28 Dec. 1875 |
| End date: 5 Jan. 1876 |
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| Notes: |
| Sunnucks gives result as +11-5=4 for Mason; Sergeant, Feenstra Kuiper, Hooper and Whyld, Di Felice and van Winsen give +11-4=4 for Mason; Elo and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give 13-6 for Mason, which is consistent with the latter result. The Illustrated London News of 22 Jan. 1876 also gives +11-4=4, as does the Dubuque Chess Journal of Apr. 1876 (pp.143-175), which gives all 19 games. Sunnucks gives date as 1875; Feenstra Kuiper, Elo, Hooper and Whyld, Di Felice and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give 1876; van Winsen gives exact dates 28 Dec. 1875 to 5 Jan. 1876. The 1 Feb. 1876 issue of the Westminster Papers says that Bird arrived in New York on 8 Dec. 1875 and the 22 Jan. 1876 issue of the Illustrated London News gives the end date as 5 Jan. 1876. The 29 Apr. 1876 issue of the Illustrated London News (p.431) claims that Bird and Mason played a number of (presumably offhand) games subsequent to this match, in which Bird won most, to the point where he was 7 games ahead, including the match. However, no exact score is given. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 66 |
| Elo, Rating of Chessplayers, page 90 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 20 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 119 |
| Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 206 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 173 |
| Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 309 |
| van Winsen, James Mason in America, page 48, 150, 225, 280, 292 |
| Periodicals |
| [BDE], 30 Dec. 1875 |
| [DCJ], no. 70, Jan. 1876, page 75 |
| [DCJ], no. 72, Apr. 1876, page 143 |
| [HCM], vol. 4, no. 6, Mar. 1876, page 131 |
| [ILN], vol. 68, no. 1903, 15 Jan. 1876, page 70 |
| [ILN], vol. 68, no. 1904, 22 Jan. 1876, page 95 |
| [WP], vol. 8, no. 10, 1 Feb. 1876, page 189 |
| [WR], 30 Dec. 1875 |
| Web |
| Hayes, Jim. [James Mason 1849-1905] |
| Sarah. [James Mason] |
| Sericano, C. [I matches 1865/79] |
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