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Event table notes
 
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| Event data |  
   | Place: London, England    | 
 
   | Start date: 15 Mar. 1887 | 
 
   | End date:   2 Apr. 1887 | 
 
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   | Notes: | 
 
   | Feenstra Kuiper, Di Felice, and Harding give the result as +2-1=1 for Blackburne; the British Chess Magazine of Aug. 1891 (p.392) gives the result as +2-0=1 for Blackburne, but that was the result reported before the last game was played. | 
 
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   | References | 
 
| Books |  
   |    Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 109 | 
 
   |    Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 22 | 
 
   |    Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 239, 509 | 
 
   |    Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 205 | 
 
| Periodicals |  
   |    [BCM], vol. 7, no. 4, Apr. 1887, page 169, 177 | 
 
   |    [BCM], vol. 7, no. 5, May 1887, page 218 | 
 
   |    [BCM], vol. 11, no. 8, Aug. 1891, page 392 | 
 
   |    [CML], vol. 8, no. 9, May 1887, page 257 | 
 
 
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