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Event table notes
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| Event data |  | 
   | Place: London, England |  
   | Start date: May 1862 |  
   | End date:   1862 |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | Not a formal match. This result comes from an account written by Bird in 1894, quoted by Harding: 'we had sixteen offhand games with even results'. Harding says the earliest of these must have been played in late May or early June 1862. |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Harding, Steinitz in London, page 37 |  |  |