Medley, G.W. – Bird, H.E. 1849




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Medley, George    2355 (44) 7/11 
Bird, Henry    2339 (51) 4/11 
 
Status: formal

Event table notes

Event data
Place: London, England
Start date: 1849
End date: June 1849
 
Notes:
Di Felice and Zavatarelli give result as +4-2 for Medley; La Grande Storia degli Scacchi gives +7-4; Spinrad gives 4-2 as well as 7-4 from Schach Datenbank and +6-3=2 from A Century of British Chess. The Chess Player's Chronicle of July 1849 (p.211) and the Illustrated London News of 23 June 1849 (p.427) give +6-3=2 for Medley.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 9
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 81
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 92
Periodicals
   [CPC], vol. 10, no. 7, July 1849, page 211
   [CPC], vol. 11, no. 9, Sep. 1850, page 264
   [ILN], vol. 14, no. 377, 23 June 1849, page 427
Web
   Sericano, C.  [I grandi matches fino al 1849]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

Match information updated: 6 Mar. 2021