| Results |
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| Crosstable scores |
| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
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Games |
| Grundy, James |
2386 | (52) |
12.5 | / | 17 |
| Mackenzie, George |
2575 | (39) |
13.5 | / | 18 |
| Möhle, Charles |
2512 | (56) |
13 | / | 18 |
| Sellman, Alexander |
2445 | (48) |
12.5 | / | 18 |
| Judd, Max |
2504 | (44) |
11 | / | 18 |
| Delmar, Eugene |
2394 | (44) |
9.5 | / | 18 |
| Ware, Preston |
2263 | (50) |
5.5 | / | 17 |
| Ryan, John |
2208 | (52) |
5.5 | / | 18 |
| Congdon, James |
2062 | (63) |
3.5 | / | 18 |
| Cohnfeld, Albert |
1918 | (78) |
2.5 | / | 18 |
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Match scores
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: 5th American Chess Congress |
| Place: New York |
| Start date: 6 Jan. 1880 |
| End date: 31 Jan. 1880 |
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| Notes: |
| Gaige, Feenstra Kuiper and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi omit the play-off between Mackenzie and Grundy. Gaige and Di Felice give ending date Jan. 26, 1880; La Grande Storia degli Scacchi gives ending date Jan. 31, which according to the tournament book by Gilberg was the date of the play-off. The tournament involved a scandal when Ware revealed that he and Grundy had agreed beforehand to draw their 2nd game, but then Grundy won it. Since it seems well-established that this game was not played fairly, I have removed it from the scores, as it sheds no light on relative strengths of the players. Spinrad argues that other games may have been thrown or fixed, but the evidence is less conclusive and I have left those scores alone. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 77 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 27 |
| Gaige, Chess Tournament Crosstables I, page 26 |
| Gilberg, Fifth American Chess Congress |
| Hillyer, Thomas Frère, page 145 |
| Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 143 |
| van Winsen, James Mason in America, page 97 |
| Web |
| Cree, Graeme. [5th American Chess Congress] (broken) |
| Sericano, C. [New York 1880] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [The Scandal of 1880, Part 1] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [The Scandal of 1880, Part 2] |
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