| Results |
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: British Chess Club Triangular Tournament |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: 1886 |
| End date: Nov. 1886 |
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| Notes: |
| This was a three-player all-play-all tournament with each pairing to be decided by the first to win 7 games. Partial scores reported in the Morning Post of 15 Nov. 1886 (p.2) are Mortimer-Donisthorpe +6-6, Mortimer-'Reeve-Farrow' +6-4, and Donisthorpe-'Reeve-Farrow' +2-3. I am guessing that 'Reeve-Farrow' is H.A. Reeves, who sometimes used the pseudonym 'Dr. Farrow'. The British Chess Magazine of Dec. 1886 (p.476) gives Mortimer-Donisthorpe as +6-6=6, so the Morning Post seems not to have reported draws. The British Chess Magazine also has +2-2 for Donisthorpe-'Reeve-Farrow' but the Morning Post seems to have a later score there. The Dec. 1886 issue of the Chess Monthly (p.97) gives a final score for Donisthorpe over Mortimer of +9-7=6 (why they went to 9 wins is not clear), and for Mortimer over Reeve-Farrow as +7-4, with Reeve-Farrow against Donisthorpe yet unfinished at +3-2. |
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| References |
| Periodicals |
| [BCM], vol. 6, no. 12, Dec. 1886, page 476 |
| [CML], vol. 8, no. 4, Dec. 1886, page 97 |
| [MP], no. 35689, 8 Nov. 1886, page 2 |
| [MP], no. 35695, 15 Nov. 1886, page 2 |
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