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Event table notes
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| Event data |  | 
   | Place: Havana |  
   | Start date: 1 Jan. 1892 |  
   | End date:   28 Feb. 1892 |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | The total given by Elo for Steinitz - Chigorin in 1891-1892, 12.5-12.5 actually includes the 2-game cable match of 1890-1891, which Chigorin won +2-0=0. |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Adams, Mikhail Chigorin, page 20, 30, 33, 141 |  
   | Davies, Samuel Lipschütz, page 200 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 133 |  
   | 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 |  
   | Hilbert, Napier, page 149 |  
   | Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 64, 331 |  
   | Moran, World Chess Championship I, page 12 |  
   | Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 147 |  
   | Sánchez, José Raúl Capablanca, page 45 |  
   | Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 468, 481 |  
   | Wade, Soviet Chess, page 26 |  
   | Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 249 |  | Periodicals |  
   | [LCF], vol. 1, no. 9, 14 Jan. 1893, page 75 |  | Web |  
   | Alberti, Marco A.  [Michail Ivanovic Cigorin] |  
   | Alberti, Marco A.  [Wilhem Steinitz] |  
   | Cree, Graeme.  [1892 Steinitz-Tchigorin World Championship Match] |  
   | Cree, Graeme.  [The World Championship Box Score] |  
   | Giffen, Glen.  [Events Timeline] |  
   | Giffen, Glen.  [Steinitz, Wilhelm] |  
   | Sarah.  [Monte Carlo 1902 - The Players] |  
   | Sericano, C.  [I campionati del mondo dal 1886 al 1937] |  
   | Sericano, C.  [I matches 1880/99] |  
   | [Acontecimientos ajedrecsticos en Cuba colonial (siglo XIX)] |  |  |