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Event table notes
 
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| Event data |  
   | Place: New York    | 
 
   | Start date: 9 Dec. 1890 | 
 
   | End date:   22 Jan. 1891 | 
 
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   | Notes: | 
 
   | The British Chess Magazine of Aug. 1891 gives the result as +7-4=8 for Steinitz and gives the dates as Nov. 1890 - May 1891, though the dates may be mean to refer to the Steinitz - Chigorin telegraph match instead. | 
 
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   | References | 
 
| Books |  
   |    Adams, Mikhail Chigorin, page 111, 478 | 
 
   |    Barcza, Magyar Sakktörténet, Vol.1, page 217 | 
 
   |    Davies, Samuel Lipschütz, page 186 | 
 
   |    Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 127 | 
 
   |    Elo, Rating of Chessplayers, page 91 | 
 
   |    Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 25 | 
 
   |    Forster, Amos Burn, page 423 | 
 
   |    Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 346 | 
 
   |    Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 196, 297 | 
 
   |    Hilbert and Lahde, Albert Beauregard Hodges, page 88 | 
 
   |    Hilbert, Napier, page 127 | 
 
   |    Hilbert, Walter Penn Shipley, page 54 | 
 
   |    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 137, 331 | 
 
   |    Moran, World Chess Championship I, page 11 | 
 
   |    Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 147 | 
 
   |    Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 215 | 
 
   |    Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 189, 468 | 
 
   |    Wade, Soviet Chess, page 22 | 
 
   |    Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 249 | 
 
| Periodicals |  
   |    [BCM], vol. 11, no. 8, Aug. 1891, page 392 | 
 
   |    [BDE], vol. 52, no. 86, 27 Mar. 1892, page 17 | 
 
| Web |  
   |    Cree, Graeme.  [1890-1 Steinitz-Gunsberg World Championship Match] (broken) | 
 
   |    Cree, Graeme.  [The World Championship Box Score] | 
 
   |    Giffen, Glen.  [Events Timeline] | 
 
   |    Giffen, Glen.  [Steinitz, Wilhelm] | 
 
   |    Harding, Tim.  [The Family Life of Grandmaster Gunsberg], page 6 | 
 
   |    Kingston, Taylor.  [Worthy Man, Worthwhile Book], page 7 | 
 
   |    Pope, Nick.  [1890 Gunsberg-Steinitz World Championship Match] | 
 
   |    Sarah.  [Chess Automatons] | 
 
   |    Sarah.  [Isidor Gunsberg] | 
 
   |    Sarah.  [Monte Carlo 1902 - The Players] | 
 
   |    Sericano, C.  [I campionati del mondo dal 1886 al 1937] | 
 
   |    Sericano, C.  [I matches 1880/99] | 
 
 
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