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Match scores
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  | Name  | 
   Edo    | 
  Dev.   | 
  Score | 
   /  | 
  Games  | 
 
  | Mason, James    | 
  2603 |   (38) | 
  2 |   / |   3  | 
 
  | Guest, Antony    | 
  2391 |   (52) | 
  1 |   / |   3  | 
 
   |   Mason, James gave odds of pawn and move | 
 
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Event table notes
 
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| Event data |  
   | Name: Simpson's Divan Handicap Play-off    | 
 
   | Place: London, England    | 
 
   | Start date: July 1884 | 
 
   | End date:   Aug. 1884 | 
 
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   | Notes: | 
 
   | The first game (won by Guest) of the play-off between the two sections of this tournament was played in July; the other two games were played after Guest's return from the Counties Chess Association meeting in Bath, which finished on 1 Aug. 1884. Harding also says that Blackburne let Gunsberg and Donisthorpe play off for the third prize, 'which ended in a tie'. I am guessing that this means a single draw, Gunsberg giving Pawn and Move odds. | 
 
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   | References | 
 
| Books |  
   |    Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 212 | 
 
| Periodicals |  
   |    [CML], vol. 5, no. 12, Aug. 1884, page 357 | 
 
   |    [CML], vol. 6, no. 1, Sep. 1884, page 3 | 
 
| Web |  
   |    van Winsen, Joost.  [A Forgotten Tournament at Simpson's] | 
 
 
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