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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: Saint Petersburg |
| Start date: 1879 |
| End date: 1879 |
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| Notes: |
| Elo gives combined result of 1879 and 1880 matches as 16.5-6.5 for Chigorin, but this does not match other sources, which give +7-4=2 for Chigorin in the 1879 match and +7-1=3 for Chigorin in the 1880 match. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Adams, Mikhail Chigorin, page 29, 56, 377 |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 75 |
| Elo, Rating of Chessplayers, page 90 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 21 |
| Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 64 |
| Web |
| Sarah. [Cast of Characters] |
| Sericano, C. [I matches 1865/79] |
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