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Event table notes
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| Event data |  | 
   | Name: Saint Petersburg Tournament |  
   | Place: Saint Petersburg |  
   | Start date: 12 Nov. 1876 |  
   | End date:   12 Nov. 1876 |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | This result comes from Shakhmatniy Listok (sent to me by Geert Van der Wulp). If intended to be a knockout tournament, it is not clear why only two games were played. |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Periodicals |  
   | [QCH], vol. 5, no. 18, 2017, page 418 |  
   | [SLk], Dec. 1876, page 127 |  
   | [SLk], no. 1, Jan. 1877, page 10 |  |  |