London, England 1881 (1)




Results
 
Match scores
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Baddeley, John    2082 (89) 1 /
Warner, J.H.    2142 (99) 1 /
 
Blackburne, Joseph    2611 (32) 0 /
Zukertort, Johannes    2668 (36) 1 /
 
Block, Theodore    2074 (75) 1.5 /
Puller, Charles    2043 (102) 0.5 /
 
Earnshaw, Samuel    1843 (99) 0 /
Lewis, Lewis    2103 (129) 2 /
 
Gunsberg, Isidor    2475 (43) 1 /
Ballard, William    2295 (76) 1 /
 
Healey, Frank    2105 (99) 1 /
Lindsay, W.A.    2085 (49) 1 /
 
Heywood, George    2199 (56) 0.5 /
Ball, W.F.    2040 (67) 0.5 /
 
Huckvale, James    2069 (83) 0 /
Salter, David    2124 (56) 2 /
 
Jackson, S. (1)    2 /
Gunston, William    2278 (83) 0 /
 
Janssens, Franciscus    2107 (97) 0.5 /
Minchin, James    2273 (43) 1.5 /
 
Lord, Frederick    2268 (79) 0.5 /
Ranken, Charles    2280 (44) 0.5 /
 
MacDonnell, George    2441 (57) 1 /
Wayte, William    2324 (41) 0 /
 
Mason, James    2581 (38) 1 /
Hirschfeld, Philipp    2278 (100) 0 /
 
Potter, William    2575 (65) 2 /
Owen, John    2336 (47) 0 /
 
Stevens, Samuel    2082 (72) 0 /
Gattie, Walter    2198 (58) 2 /
 
Vyse, W. Elliot    2087 (63) 0 /
Marett, Charles    2166 (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