| Results |
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| Crosstable scores |
| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
/ |
Games |
Class |
| Burn, Amos |
2563 | (29) |
13 | / | 14 |
1 |
| Pollock, William |
2379 | (31) |
10.5 | / | 13 |
1 |
| Neill, James |
2071 | (89) |
10.5 | / | 14 |
4 |
| Magowan, Samuel |
1818 | (81) |
8.5 | / | 13 |
6 |
| Barnett, Richard |
2026 | (51) |
9 | / | 14 |
4 |
| Chambers, John |
1979 | (39) |
7.5 | / | 13 |
4 |
| Harvey, Ernest |
1913 | (62) |
7.5 | / | 13 |
5 |
| Peake, Alfred |
1870 | (57) |
6.5 | / | 14 |
4 |
| Nicholls, William |
1624 | (71) |
4.5 | / | 13 |
6 |
| Gamble, James |
1671 | (90) |
4 | / | 11 |
6 |
| McTear, John |
1575 | (91) |
4 | / | 13 |
6 |
| Palmer, William |
1762 | (79) |
4 | / | 12 |
4 |
| Barnett, Richard (1) |
1306 | (101) |
3.5 | / | 14 |
8 |
| Boyd, Robert |
1215 | (130) |
1 | / | 11 |
8 |
| Dill, John |
| |
0 | / | 6 |
7 |
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| Odds for class difference of 1: two moves |
| Odds for class difference of 2: pawn and move |
| Odds for class difference of 3: pawn and two moves |
| Odds for class difference of 4: a knight |
| Odds for class difference of 5: knight and move |
| Odds for class difference of 6: a rook |
| Odds for class difference of 7: rook and move |
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: Handicap Tournament |
| Place: Belfast |
| Start date: 20 Sep. 1886 |
| End date: 1 Oct. 1886 |
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| Notes: |
| J. Dill is listed at the end of the crosstable as the fifteenth player, with a score of 0, but apparently forfeited most of his games. The Belfast News-Letter (and Forster) does not indicate which games he actually played. McTear and Boyd also defaulted some games, though fewer than Dill. Again, which ones were forfeited is not indicated. For Dill, I have included his first 6 games, all reported as losses by 27 Sept. 1886, and no additional losses are recorded for him until 30 Sept. 1886. This is just a guess at how many were genuine losses (but for the moment this choice has no effect, since Dill is unratable in any case). Boyd, Gamble and Palmer never played their games between each other, so those are scored as 0-0. I have included all other results for McTear and Boyd, but the more games were forfeited, the more the ratings of these players (and Dill) are underestimated. Forster's account of the odds classes is inconsistent with reported results, since he has Dill and Magowan in class 4 and Dr. R. Barnett and Boyd in class 5, but Dill gave odds of two moves to Dr. Barnett, while Magowan gave odds of Pawn and move to Boyd. The Glasgow Weekly Herald specifies the odds classes of all players, consistent with Forster, but again, not with known results. The 8-class system I have imposed (but with no class 2 or 3) is consistent with all the reported odds pairings I have. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Forster, Amos Burn, page 207 |
| Rowland, Pollock Memories, page 3 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 202 |
| Periodicals |
| [BCM], vol. 6, no. 11, Nov. 1886, page 414 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22226, 20 Sep. 1886, page 8 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22228, 22 Sep. 1886, page 8 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22229, 23 Sep. 1886, page 3 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22230, 24 Sep. 1886, page 7 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22231, 25 Sep. 1886, page 3 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22232, 27 Sep. 1886, page 3 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22233, 28 Sep. 1886, page 3 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22234, 29 Sep. 1886, page 3 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22235, 30 Sep. 1886, page 8 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22236, 1 Oct. 1886, page 8 |
| [BNL], vol. 150, no. 22242, 8 Oct. 1886, page 3 |
| [CML], vol. 8, no. 1, Sep. 1886, page 2 |
| [CPC], vol. 10, no. 319, 13 Oct. 1886, page 81 |
| [GWH], 16 Oct. 1886, page 7 |
| [ILN], vol. 89, no. 2479, 23 Oct. 1886, page 435 |
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