London, England 1881 (1)




Results
 
Match scores
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Baddeley, John    2096 (89) 1 /
Warner, J.H.    2183 (101) 1 /
 
Blackburne, Joseph    2609 (33) 0 /
Zukertort, Johannes    2667 (36) 1 /
 
Block, Theodore    2084 (85) 1.5 /
Puller, Charles    2051 (103) 0.5 /
 
Earnshaw, Samuel    1850 (100) 0 /
Lewis, Lewis    2126 (133) 2 /
 
Gunsberg, Isidor    2474 (43) 1 /
Ballard, William    2301 (76) 1 /
 
Healey, Frank    2110 (101) 1 /
Lindsay, W.A.    2089 (49) 1 /
 
Heywood, George    2215 (58) 0.5 /
Ball, W.F.    2046 (67) 0.5 /
 
Huckvale, James    2033 (96) 0 /
Salter, David    2125 (56) 2 /
 
Jackson, S. (1)    2 /
Gunston, William    2289 (83) 0 /
 
Janssens, Franciscus    2109 (97) 0.5 /
Minchin, James    2276 (43) 1.5 /
 
Lord, Frederick    2147 (99) 0.5 /
Ranken, Charles    2278 (44) 0.5 /
 
MacDonnell, George    2426 (60) 1 /
Wayte, William    2326 (41) 0 /
 
Mason, James    2576 (38) 1 /
Hirschfeld, Philipp    2285 (102) 0 /
 
Potter, William    2559 (67) 2 /
Owen, John    2336 (47) 0 /
 
Stevens, Samuel    2121 (75) 0 /
Gattie, Walter    2213 (58) 2 /
 
Vyse, W. Elliot    2094 (66) 0 /
Marett, Charles    2164 (86) 1 /
 

Event table notes

Event data
Name: City of London - Saint George's Club Match
Place: London, England
Start date: 24 Mar. 1881
End date: 24 Mar. 1881
 
Notes:
Sergeant says Potter won 2-0 against Owen, but the Chess Monthly of Apr. 1881 (p.225) gives the score as 1-0. It is mentioned there, though, that one game was undecided at the end of play, Owen-Potter, but that it was played out on 26 Mar. 1881 and won by Potter. This is confirmed in the British Chess Magazine of Feb. 1885 (pp.60-61). Sergeant has E.M. Jackson at this event, but since he was born in May 1867, he would have been 13 years old at the time of this event. I have tentatively identified the player as S. Jackson, who played at the City of London Club in the early 1870s (see, for example, the Illustrated London News of 19 Mar. 1870, p.307). I am guessing that the 'Puller' at this event was Charles Giles Puller and not his brother, Arthur Giles Puller, who was less active in the years before his death in 1885.
 
References
Books
   Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 159, 511
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 277
   Renette and Zavatarelli, Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle, page 133
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 181
Periodicals
   [BCM], vol. 5, no. 2, Feb. 1885, page 60
   [CML], vol. 2, no. 8, Apr. 1881, page 225

Tournament information updated: 3 Apr. 2022