| Results |
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| Crosstable scores |
| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
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Games |
| Zukertort, Johannes |
2655 | (28) |
24.5 | / | 32 |
| Steinitz, Wilhelm |
2676 | (30) |
21.5 | / | 32 |
| Blackburne, Joseph |
2623 | (30) |
23.5 | / | 39 |
| Chigorin, Mikhail |
2561 | (34) |
18.5 | / | 32 |
| Englisch, Berthold |
2582 | (33) |
24 | / | 44 |
| Mackenzie, George |
2568 | (30) |
22 | / | 40 |
| Mason, James |
2613 | (30) |
21 | / | 38 |
| Rosenthal, Samuel |
2567 | (38) |
23 | / | 44 |
| Winawer, Szymon |
2595 | (32) |
19.5 | / | 40 |
| Bird, Henry |
2506 | (31) |
14.5 | / | 32 |
| Noa, József |
2455 | (37) |
12.5 | / | 33 |
| Sellman, Alexander |
2428 | (40) |
10.5 | / | 35 |
| Mortimer, James |
2240 | (45) |
5 | / | 30 |
| Skipworth, Arthur |
2247 | (44) |
4 | / | 17 |
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: London Tournament |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: 26 Apr. 1883 |
| End date: 23 June 1883 |
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| Notes: |
| 14-player, double-round all-play-all tournament. In each pairing of each round, one or two draws did not count before a decisive game; a third draw, however, would count as a half point. Neither Sergeant, Gaige, Feenstra Kuiper nor La Grande Storia degli Scacchi indicate the uncounted draws in the crosstable; Di Felice gives the uncounted draws as well (though he uses an unexplained symbol ':', it is clear that it must mean 2 uncounted draws, especially since the total number of games, including 11 defaulted games and 1 unplayed game, by this reckoning matches the total of 256 games given by Feenstra Kuiper on p.205). Gaige indicates that the second game between Blackburne and Rosenthal was unplayed, but does not indicate the 11 defaulted games by Skipworth; La Grande Storia degli Scacchi indicates neither, thus giving just the official results. Di Felice also indicates that the second round game between Blackburne and Rosenthal was unplayed and indicates two draws and a win for Blackburne in their first round game. Harding, in his biography of Blackburne, clarifies that the did play a drawn game in the second round, but that it was never replayed because it could not affect the prize results. Harding also gives a single draw and a win in their first round encounter. Thus, their first round score was +1-0=1 for Blackburne, and their second round score was +0-0=1. Harding's biography of Steinitz has a crosstable (p.317) showing the defaulted games, but indicating that Blackburne's second round game against Skipworth was also won by default. This is clearly an error, however, since both games are given in his biography of Blackburne. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Adams, Mikhail Chigorin, page 33 |
| Barcza, Magyar Sakktörténet, Vol.1, page 245 |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 88 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 29, 205 |
| Gaige, Chess Tournament Crosstables I, page 35 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 190, 216, 249 |
| Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 190, 190 |
| Harding, Steinitz in London, page 304, 317 |
| Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 143 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 186, 313 |
| Web |
| Sericano, C. [Londra 1883] |
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