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Event table notes
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| Event data |  | 
   | Place: London, England |  
   | Start date: 7 May 1887 |  
   | End date:   9 June 1887 |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | Feenstra Kuiper, Moran, Di Felice and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give +5-1=8 for Blackburne; Sarah's Blackburne web pages give +5-1=7 for Blackburne; Sergeant gives +5-1=1 for Blackburne. The July 1887 issue of British Chess Magazine gives +5-1=8. |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 108 |  
   | Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 22 |  
   | Forster, Amos Burn, page 198 |  
   | Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 205, 255 |  
   | Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 241, 509 |  
   | Moran, World Chess Championship I, page 8 |  
   | Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 203 |  
   | Winter, Kings, Commoners and Knaves, page 390 |  | Periodicals |  
   | [BCM], vol. 7, no. 6, June 1887, page 242, 268 |  
   | [BCM], vol. 7, no. 7, July 1887, page 301 |  
   | [BCM], vol. 11, no. 8, Aug. 1891, page 392 |  | Web |  
   | Sarah.  [der Schwarze Tod] |  
   | Sarah.  [Joseph Henry Blackburne] |  
   | Sericano, C.  [I matches 1880/99] |  |  |