Warsaw 1868




Results
 
Crosstable scores
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games   
Winawer, Szymon    2573 (56) 39 / 44 
Kleczyński, Jan (1)    2392 (108) 38 / 44 
Różański, Aleksander    2310 (123) 35.5 / 44 
Landau, M.    2262 (125) 33.5 / 44 
 
 

Event table notes

Event data
Name: Warsaw National Tournament
Place: Warsaw
Start date: May 1868
End date: July 1868
 
Notes:
This was a 23-player double-round all-play-all tournament. The report cited by Bogdanovich and Lissowski specifically says that each player played 44 games. Scores, however, were calculated by ignoring draws, and subtracting losses from wins. Thus, when it says that the top four were Winawer with 34 wins, Kleczynski with 32 wins, Rozanski with 27 wins and Landau with 23 wins, we should interpret these as numbers of wins minus numbers of losses. Then, we can deduce that adding these scores to the number of games played (i.e., 44) and dividing by 2 gives the usual score of number of wins plus 1/2 the number of draws: (W + D + L = 44; W - L = Score given, imply 2W+D = 44 + Score given). Thus, we find, according to the usual scoring, and the one we must use for rating, the four scores as 39, 38, 35.5, and 33.5. Note that if 34, 32, 27 and 23 were the full conventional scores, then the other 19 players would have to have an average score of over 20.5, which is implausible, but with 39, 38, 35.5 and 33.5, the other 19 have an average score of about 18.95, which is quite feasible. Six additional players in this event, whose scores we don't know, were B. Winawer, D. Winawer, Khodorovsky, A. Shchavinsky, Sh. Metal, and Albert Szczawiński.
 
References
Books
   Bogdanovich and Lissowski, Shimon Winawer, page 51
Periodicals
   [SZ], vol. 23, no. 19, 1 Oct. 1868, page 304
Web
   Popovsky, Alexey.  [National Tournament- Warsaw 1868]
   [Albert Szczawiński]

Tournament information updated: 6 Aug. 2024