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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: London, England (?) |
| Start date: 1874 |
| End date: 27 Apr. 1874 |
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| Notes: |
| The report in the Illustrated London News gives +4-0 for Bird and says the match was unfinished. This partial result is also given in the City of London Chess Magazine of Apr. 1874 (p.53). Sergeant gives a final result of +7-2=1 for Bird, which comes from the Westminster Papers of June 1874 (p.20), and the City of London Chess Magazine of June 1874 (p.126). |
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| References |
| Books |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 163 |
| Periodicals |
| [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 3, Apr. 1874, page 53 |
| [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 5, June 1874, page 126 |
| [ILN], vol. 64, no. 1810, 2 May 1874, page 426 |
| [WP], vol. 7, no. 2, 1 June 1874, page 20 |
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