| Results |
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| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
/ |
Games |
| Staunton, Howard |
2640 | (43) |
5.5 | / | 7 |
| Taverner |
2135 | (112) |
1.5 | / | 7 |
| Staunton, Howard gave odds of pawn and move |
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| Status: formal |
Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: London, England (?) |
| Start date: |
| End date: Jan. 1843 |
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| Notes: |
| Acccording to Taylor Kingston (see book review web page) R.N. Coles (in World Chess Champions, Edward Winter, ed.) gives a match result of +5-1 for Staunton, giving Pawn and two moves to Taverner. Staunton gives 7 games between himself and Taverner in the Chess Player's Chronicle (v.4, 1843, pp.18-25, 132-134), 5 in the Jan. issue, 2 in the May issue. Staunton gave Taverner Pawn and move odds in all these games with the result +5-1=1. While Staunton does not say that these games constituted a match and Coles could have got his information from another source, it is tempting to think that Coles got it wrong. I do not know whether or not this was considered a formal match, but it is listed as such by Coles. Judging by the dates of the games in the Chess Player's Chronicle, I guess that the match finished in Jan. 1843. |
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| References |
| Periodicals |
| [CPC], vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 1843, page 18 |
| [CPC], vol. 4, no. 5, May 1843, page 132 |
| Web |
| Kingston, Taylor. [Don't Bet the Farm or Scholar's Concern Tempers Stat-Freak's Delight], page 11 |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
| Weeks, Mark. [Howard Staunton's Tournament, Match and Exhibition Record] |
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