de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. – Staunton, H. 1843 (2)




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Staunton, Howard    2640 (43) 13/21 
de Saint-Amant, Pierre    2572 (45) 8/21 
 
Status: formal

Event table notes

Event data
Place: Paris
Start date: 14 Nov. 1843
End date: 20 Dec. 1843
 
Notes:
Potter's obituary for Staunton (City of London Chess Magazine of Aug. 1874, p.165, also reproduced at Sarah's web page) gives the score as +11-7=2 for Staunton, as does Steinitz's obituary in the Field (4 Jul. 1874). All other sources give +11-6=4.
 
References
Books
   Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 40, 41
   Cornil, Historique des revues francophones, page 42
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 5
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 12
   Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 38
   Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 284, 307
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 326
   Murray, History of Chess, page 885
   Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 147
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 55, 310
   Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 436, 464
   Townsend, Notes on Staunton, page 66
Periodicals
   [BLL], 19 Nov. 1843, page 4
   [BLL], 24 Dec. 1843, page 2
   [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 7, Aug. 1874, page 165
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 1844, page 11
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 2, Feb. 1844, page 33
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 3, Mar. 1844, page 65
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 4, Apr. 1844, page 97
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 5, May 1844, page 129
   [Era], vol. 35, no. 1784, 1 Dec. 1872, page 4
   [Fld], 4 July 1874
   [HCM], vol. 1, no. 4, Jan. 1873, page 75
   [IZL], vol. 1, no. 23, 2 Dec. 1843, page 368
   [IZL], vol. 2, no. 32, 3 Feb. 1844, page 94
   [IZL], vol. 2, no. 41, 6 Apr. 1844, page 240
   [Pal], vol. 3, no. 12, 15 Dec. 1843, page 529
   [Pal], vol. 4, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1844, page 9
   [Pal], vol. 4, no. 2, 15 Feb. 1844, page 60
   [SZ], vol. 2, no. 9, Sep. 1847, page 297
   [WP], vol. 7, no. 4, 1 Aug. 1874, page 62
Web
   Alberti, Marco A.  [Howard Staunton]
   Alberti, Marco A.  [Pierre Charles Fournier Saint-Amant]
   Giffen, Glen.  [Events Timeline]
   Metzner, Paul.  [Philidor and the Café de la Régence Chess Masters]
   Murray, H.J.R.  [Howard Staunton by H.J.R. Murray]
   Potter, William Norwood.  [The Late Howard Staunton]
   Sarah.  [Howard Staunton]
   Sarah.  [The Late Grand Chess Match]
   Sarah.  [Saint Amant]
   Sarah.  [Saint Amant]
   Sarah.  [Saint Amant]
   Sericano, C.  [I campionati del mondo fino al 1885]
   Sericano, C.  [I grandi matches fino al 1849]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]
   Weeks, Mark.  [Howard Staunton's Tournament, Match and Exhibition Record]

Match information updated: 6 Apr. 2023