| Results |
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| Crosstable scores |
| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
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Games |
| Anderssen, Adolf |
2620 | (38) |
11.5 | / | 13 |
| Paulsen, Louis |
2663 | (38) |
10 | / | 13 |
| Owen, John |
2478 | (48) |
10 | / | 16 |
| MacDonnell, George |
2472 | (42) |
7 | / | 11 |
| Dubois, Serafino |
2598 | (39) |
7 | / | 11 |
| Steinitz, Wilhelm |
2548 | (39) |
7.5 | / | 14 |
| Barnes, Thomas |
2444 | (52) |
9 | / | 17 |
| Hannah, James |
2351 | (50) |
4.5 | / | 11 |
| Blackburne, Joseph |
2409 | (40) |
5 | / | 14 |
| Löwenthal, Johann |
2534 | (45) |
3 | / | 3 |
| Robey, James |
2159 | (83) |
2 | / | 10 |
| Deacon, Frederic |
2367 | (49) |
2.5 | / | 8 |
| Mongrédien, Augustus (1) |
2298 | (52) |
5 | / | 18 |
| Green, Valentine |
2269 | (36) |
4 | / | 17 |
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Match scores
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: British Chess Association Congress - Grand Tournament |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: 14 June 1862 |
| End date: 31 July 1862 |
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| Notes: |
| Draws played are included here, though not counted in official scores. Several games were not played. Discrepancies: Sergeant and Gaige are missing the draw for Mongredien against Anderssen (though it is indicated for Anderssen against Mongredien and the drawn game is known, so just a typgraphic error); Feenstra Kuiper and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi have Dubois winning against Macdonnell, while Sergeant, Gaige, Di Felice and Spinrad have Macdonnell winning by default (not played) against Dubois; Feenstra Kuiper and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi have Barnes-Macdonnell not played, while Sergeant, Gaige, Di Felice and Spinrad have Barnes winning against Macdonnell. I have followed Gaige. Tim Harding's research (see his detailed account of the tournament at ChessCafe, and in Steinitz in London) confirms these conclusions. Harding (in Steinitz in London) also finds evidence from Dubois' own memoirs, that he played a draw against Barnes before beating him. This draw is absent from other sources. Dates also vary between sources. Feenstra Kuiper gives 13-06-1862 to 5-07-1862 from Anderssen's book ('nach Buch Anderssen') as well as 16-06-1862 to 2-08-1862 from Steinitz's book ('nach Buch Steinitz'). Di Felice accepts the former. Gaige gives 16-06-1862 to 31-07-1862. The Illustrated London News of 21 June says that pairings were decided on 13 June for 'the approaching tournaments'. Löwenthal's tournament book (p.liii) says that although 16 June was the official starting date of the tournament, Mongredien and Barnes played their game on 14 Jun. 1862. The same information is given in the Era of 22 Jun. 1862 (p.5). I therefore take this as the start date from the point of view of games played. The Illustrated London News of July 26 says that the tournament 'concluded during the present week' so it seems to have finished before July 26, though it was not finished at the time the July 19 issue of the Illustrated London News was prepared. Also, there is some confusion because Staunton suggests in the July 26 issue that Dubois and Steinitz (and possibly Barnes) needed to play another round to decide 5th and 6th prizes, but Tim Harding suggests that no such play-offs took place. However, G.B. Fraser, in the Dundee Courier and Argus of 16 Aug. 1862, claims that there was a play-off between Steinitz and Dubois and that it was won by Dubois. I will tentatively accept Gaige's end date of July 31 (it is odd that both Gaige and Feenstra Kuiper cite Löwenthal's book of the congress as a source, yet they disagree on details). The Era of 4 Jan. 1863 says that the tournament began 30-06-1862 and lasted 6 days. This is contradicted by the above accounts. Harding's analysis in Steinitz in London of all the complications of this tournament should probably be considered definitive. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 35 |
| Féry d'Esclands, Congrès des Échecs 1867, page xlv |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 19, 202 |
| Gaige, Chess Tournament Crosstables I, page 6 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 211 |
| Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 33 |
| Harding, Steinitz in London, page 38, 49 |
| Löwenthal and Medley, Chess Congress of 1862 |
| Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 142 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 112, 312 |
| Periodicals |
| [CPC], vol. 4, no. 7, July 1862, page 196, 203 |
| [DCA], 16 Aug. 1862 |
| [Era], vol. 24, no. 1238, 15 June 1862, page 13 |
| [Era], vol. 24, no. 1239, 22 June 1862, page 5 |
| [Era], vol. 24, no. 1241, 6 July 1862, page 5, 5, 15 |
| [Era], vol. 24, no. 1242, 13 July 1862, page 5 |
| [Era], vol. 24, no. 1243, 20 July 1862, page 5 |
| [Era], vol. 25, no. 1267, 4 Jan. 1863, page 6 |
| [ILN], vol. 40, no. 1150, 21 June 1862, page 644 |
| [ILN], vol. 41, no. 1156, 26 July 1862, page 95 |
| [LiM], no. 4523, 9 Aug. 1862, page 8 |
| [NR], vol. 3, no. 6, June 1862, page 182 |
| [NR], vol. 3, no. 7, July 1862, page 216 |
| [Sis], vol. 6, 1862, page 247, 262, 329 |
| [SZ], vol. 17, no. 7, July 1862, page 206, 255 |
| Web |
| Harding, Tim. [London 1862, As It Happened] |
| Sericano, C. [I campionati del mondo fino al 1885] |
| Sericano, C. [London 1862] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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