| Results |
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Match scores
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| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
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Games |
| Chinnery, Walter |
2152 | (73) |
2 | / | 2 |
| Lyttelton, George |
1813 | (68) |
0 | / | 2 |
| Chinnery, Walter gave odds of the move |
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| Mongredien, Augustus (2) |
2063 | (69) |
2 | / | 3 |
| Trelawny, John |
1916 | (99) |
1 | / | 3 |
| Trelawny, John gave odds of the move |
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| Minchin, James |
2309 | (67) |
2 | / | 2 |
| Burne, E. |
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0 | / | 2 |
| Minchin, James gave odds of pawn and move |
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| Mocatta, Abraham |
2302 | (79) |
2.5 | / | 3 |
| Mann, H. |
1681 | (164) |
0.5 | / | 3 |
| Mocatta, Abraham gave odds of the move |
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| Green, S.J. |
2113 | (70) |
2.5 | / | 3 |
| Barber, George |
1705 | (164) |
0.5 | / | 3 |
| Green, S.J. gave odds of the move |
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| Steinitz, Wilhelm |
2656 | (37) |
3 | / | 4 |
| de Vere, Cecil |
2613 | (43) |
1 | / | 4 |
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| MacDonnell, George |
2506 | (49) |
2 | / | 2 |
| Thorold, Edmund |
2407 | (52) |
0 | / | 2 |
| MacDonnell, George gave odds of the move |
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| Steinitz, Wilhelm |
2656 | (37) |
2 | / | 2 |
| MacDonnell, George |
2506 | (49) |
0 | / | 2 |
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| Mocatta, Abraham |
2302 | (79) |
3 | / | 4 |
| Chinnery, Walter |
2152 | (73) |
1 | / | 4 |
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| Green, S.J. |
2113 | (70) |
2 | / | 2 |
| Minchin, James |
2309 | (67) |
0 | / | 2 |
| Minchin, James gave odds of the move |
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| Mongredien, Augustus (2) |
2063 | (69) |
2 | / | 3 |
| Green, Valentine |
2238 | (59) |
1 | / | 3 |
| Green, Valentine gave odds of pawn and move |
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| Steinitz, Wilhelm |
2656 | (37) |
2.5 | / | 3 |
| Mocatta, Abraham |
2302 | (79) |
0.5 | / | 3 |
| Steinitz, Wilhelm gave odds of pawn and move |
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| Green, S.J. |
2113 | (70) |
3 | / | 5 |
| Mongredien, Augustus (2) |
2063 | (69) |
2 | / | 5 |
| Green, S.J. gave odds of the move |
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| Mocatta, Abraham |
2302 | (79) |
2 | / | 2 |
| Mongredien, Augustus (2) |
2063 | (69) |
0 | / | 2 |
| Mocatta, Abraham gave odds of pawn and move |
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| Steinitz, Wilhelm |
2656 | (37) |
2 | / | 2 |
| Green, S.J. |
2113 | (70) |
0 | / | 2 |
| Steinitz, Wilhelm gave odds of pawn and two moves |
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: British Chess Association Handicap Tournament |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: 20 June 1866 |
| End date: Sep. 1866 |
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| Notes: |
| This was a 16-player handicap knock-out tournament, though Valentine Green beat William Sutton Gover in round 1 by default, as Gover could not appear. Each pairing was won by the first player to win 2 games. Feenstra Kuiper, Gaige, and Di Felice give similar results, with 2-0 scores for all pairings apart from Mongredien-Trelawney, Mocatta-Mann and Steinitz-de Vere, each of which is given as 2-1. Di Felice (but not Gaige or Feenstra Kuiper) also gives the final between Steinitz and S.J. Green as +2-0=1. The primary sources differ from the above with respect to several of the matches. In particular, Löwenthal (Chess Player's Magazine, July 1866, p.201; Era 1 July 1866, p.7) mentions a draw between Mocatta and Mann, and in the Chess Player's Magazine of July 1866 (p.202) he gives a score of +2-0=1 for Mocatta-Mann, which would end the match, so presumably Mocatta did not lose a game to Mann. That there was a draw between S.J. Green and Barber is also indicated in the Chess Player's Magazine of July 1866 (p.202). A draw between Steinitz and de Vere is mentioned in the Era of 1 July 1866 (p.7) and the Chess Player's Magazine of July 1866 (pp.201,202). The final result of +2-0=2 for that pairing (no loss for Steinitz) is given in the Era of 22 July 1866 (p.14) and the Chess Player's Magazine of Aug. 1866 (pp.244-251). A draw between Mocatta and Chinnery is mentioned in the Era of 15 July 1866 (p.5) and the final result of this pairing is given as +2-0=2 for Mocatta in the Era of 22 July 1866 (p.14) and one of the drawn games is given in the Chess Player's Magazine of May 1867 (pp.147-148). The Era of 22 July 1866 (p.14) gives the score so far of Mongredien-V. Green as +1-1, so presumably it finished +2-1 for Mongredien. The Era of 2 Sep. 1866 (p.5) says 'Mr. Steinitz won two games of Mr. Mocatta, giving the odds of Pawn and move, and the game was drawn.' I take this to mean that there was one draw, so +2-0=1 for Steinitz. This is confirmed by Harding, who gives all three games. The drawn game is given in the Chess Player's Magazine of Nov. 1866 (pp.341-343). The Era of 2 Sep. 1866 (p.5) gives the result of S.J. Green-Mongredien as +2-1=2 for Green. Finally, the Dec. 1866 issue of the Chess Player's Magazine (pp.362-364) gives two wins by Steinitz over S.J. Green, with no indication of a draw (contra Di Felice). Harding also shows this as +2-0=0. Feenstra Kuiper, Gaige and Di Felice all give the end date as 18 July 1866, but the 2 Sep. 1866 issue of the Era (p.5) says it hadn't yet finished, and the final results are only given in the 16 Sep. 1866 issue (p.5), so I conclude that it finished in Sep. 1866. Harding shows that Steinitz's later games had to wait until his match with Anderssen was over. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 43 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 20, 202 |
| Gaige, Chess Tournament Crosstables I, page 4 |
| Harding, Steinitz in London, page 120, 348 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 141 |
| Periodicals |
| [CPM], vol. 2, no. 7, July 1866, page 200 |
| [CPM], vol. 2, no. 8, Aug. 1866, page 232 |
| [CPM], vol. 3, no. 8, Aug. 1866, page 244 |
| [CPM], vol. 2, no. 10, Oct. 1866, page 307 |
| [CPM], vol. 2, no. 11, Nov. 1866, page 339 |
| [CPM], vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 1866, page 362 |
| [CPM], vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 1867, page 17 |
| [CPM], vol. 3, no. 5, May 1867, page 147 |
| [CPM], vol. 3, no. 6, June 1867, page 178 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1447, 17 June 1866, page 5 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1448, 24 June 1866, page 7 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1449, 1 July 1866, page 7 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1450, 8 July 1866, page 7 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1451, 15 July 1866, page 5 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1452, 22 July 1866, page 14 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1453, 29 July 1866, page 5 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1454, 5 Aug. 1866, page 6 |
| [Era], vol. 28, no. 1458, 2 Sep. 1866, page 5 |
| [Era], vol. 29, no. 1460, 16 Sep. 1866, page 5 |
| [MaT], 1 Sep. 1866 |
| [Sis], vol. 10, 1866, page 345 |
| Web |
| Sericano, C. [London Handicap 1866] |
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