| Results |
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| Crosstable scores |
| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
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Games |
| Blackburne, Joseph |
2563 | (42) |
8.5 | / | 10 |
| de Vere, Cecil |
2547 | (42) |
9.5 | / | 12 |
| MacDonnell, George |
2556 | (47) |
6 | / | 10 |
| Owen, John |
2416 | (47) |
6.5 | / | 11 |
| Wormald, Robert |
2454 | (71) |
5.5 | / | 9 |
| Bird, Henry |
2439 | (52) |
4 | / | 10 |
| Wisker, John |
2484 | (43) |
4.5 | / | 12 |
| Hampton, William |
2291 | (74) |
3.5 | / | 10 |
| Lord, John |
2327 | (58) |
3 | / | 9 |
| Skipworth, Arthur |
2259 | (44) |
1 | / | 4 |
| Cuthbertson, A. |
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0 | / | 7 |
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Match scores
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: 2nd British Chess Association Challenge Cup |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: 24 Nov. 1868 |
| End date: 10 Mar. 1869 |
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| Notes: |
| 11-player, single-round all-play-all, with draws not counting and replayed. Di Felice and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi have 'Hampton, Thomas Inglis' at this event, but Gillam has 'W.J. Hampton' and Löwenthal and Medley have 'W. Hampton' (p.8) but elsewhere (pp.2,4) had 'J.W. Hampton'. Gillam accounts for most known games played, but Tim Harding found an additional draw between Wormald and Bird. Di Felice is missing the draws de Vere-MacDonnell and de Vere-Wormald as well as the win by Wormald over Bird, which he indicates was not played. La Grande Storia degli Scacchi, which always gives official scores rather than games actually played, doesn't indicate the defaulted games, counting them as if played, nor does it indicate any draws. Staunton gives a part-way report in the Illustrated London News of 2 Jan. 1869 (p.23), stating that Skipworth 'resigned after losing 8 without scoring any', and Löwenthal and Medley say 'Mr. Skipworth won 1 and lost 9 (8 by forfeiture)'. These reports disagree with Skipworth's account in the Chess Players' Quarterly Chronicle (vol.1, p.153), and with Gillam's and Harding's account, that Skipworth in the end played only 4 games, one a win. The Westminster Papers of 1 Mar. 1870 (vol.2, p.174) says that the report of the British Chess Association is incorrect in saying that Wormald won five games, and that he actually won six, and lost two. The discrepancy may relate to forfeited games. According to Gillam and Harding, he actually only won four over the board, and lost two. It is still unclear whether MacDonnell played Cuthbertson, and why Wormald's games with Lord and MacDonnell were not played. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 49 |
| Gillam, London, 1868/9, page 2, 4, 6 |
| Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 58, 509 |
| Löwenthal and Medley, Transactions of the BCA, 1868-1869, page 3, 8, 15 |
| Periodicals |
| [BLL], no. 2430, 14 Nov. 1868, page 9 |
| [CPQC], vol. 1, no. 5, Feb. 1869, page 152 |
| [CPQC], vol. 1, no. 6, Apr. 1869, page 188 |
| [CW], vol. 4, no. 10, Jan. 1869, page 385 |
| [CW], vol. 4, no. 11, Feb. 1869, page 429 |
| [Era], vol. 31, no. 1580, 3 Jan. 1869, page 4 |
| [Era], vol. 31, no. 1585, 7 Feb. 1869, page 7 |
| [ILN], vol. 54, no. 1519, 2 Jan. 1869, page 23 |
| [NYC], 26 Dec. 1868 |
| [RT], vol. 9, no. 216, 13 Mar. 1869, page 156 |
| [RT], vol. 9, no. 220, 10 Apr. 1869, page 237 |
| [SZ], vol. 23, no. 21, Nov. 1868, page 338 |
| [SZ], vol. 23, no. 23, Dec. 1868, page 360 |
| [WP], vol. 2, no. 11, 1 Mar. 1870, page 174 |
| Web |
| Sericano, C. [London BCA Challenge Cup 1868-1869] |
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