Edo Ratings, Paris 1821

Paris 1821

Results

Crosstable scores

Name	Edo	Dev.	Score	/	Games	Class
Deschapelles, Alexandre	2639	(99)	12	/	27	1
de la Bourdonnais, Louis	2634	(100)	28	/	35	2
Cochrane, John	2331	(99)	2	/	22	2

Odds for class difference of 1: pawn and two moves

Event table notes

Event data

Name: 'Pools'

Place: Paris

Start date: Apr. 1821

End date: Apr. 1821

Notes:

Only partial results available. This was a 'tournament' in the sense that it consisted of rounds, called 'pools' involving all 3 players. Hooper and Whyld give the score for de Labourdonnais over Deschapelles as 6-1 on p.47, but on pp.88 and 243, they give 7-0; Metzner and Sarah both give 7-0; Utterberg gives 6-1. Metzner says Deschapelles beat Cochrane by an unknown score; Hooper & Whyld, Utterberg, Spinrad and Sarah all give 6-1 for Deschapelles. Metzner says de Labourdonnais beat Cochrane 6-1; Hooper & Whyld, Utterberg, Spinrad and Sarah say 7-0. However, reports in the Chess Player's Chronicle and Le Palamède indicate that there were 21 all-play-all rounds, de Labourdonnais winning 14 rounds, Cochrane 1 and Deschapelles 6. Thus, the known game results for each pairing are: Deschapelles-de Labourdonnais, 6-14; Deschapelles-Cochrane, 6-1; and de Labourdonnais-Cochrane, 14-1 (see Edwards at ChessCafé). The results of the other games (in each round, games between the 2 players who did not win the round) are not known. The source of the erroneous results in other sources may have been P.W. Sergeant's book A Century of British Chess, in which it is suggested that the results Labourdonnais 14, Deschapelles 6, Cochrane 1 can be used to deduce the results of 'the individual matches', mistaking the nature of the 'pools'.

References

Books

Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 85

Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 47, 88, 243

Murray, History of Chess, page 879

Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 27

Utterberg, De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, page 11

Walker, Chess and Chess Players, page 345

Periodicals

[BLL], 11 Dec. 1836, page 3

[BLL], 25 Dec. 1836, page 3

[BLL], 13 Dec. 1840, page 4