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Event table notes
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| Place: Paris |
| Start date: 1820 |
| End date: 1820 |
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| This result comes from a description by Alphonse Delannoy in the Chess Monthly of Nov. 1880 (pp.72-74), many decades after the event. The series of games was not an arranged match, but was played for financial stakes on each game. Delannoy describes the first two games, played even (without handicap) and both won by de la Bourdonnais, after which he says 'Three, four, five games followed, and he [de la Bourdonnais] pocketed the money.' This could be taken to mean that five games followed the first two, for a total of seven games, or that the total was five games. I will assume the latter. At that point, according to Delannoy, de la Bourdonnais had won 20 francs, a multiple of 5 but not 7, making it more likely that 5 games had so far been played. Following this, the series of games continued but de la Bourdonnais then gave Mouret odds of Pawn and Two Moves. Those games are recorded separately here. No date is given, but Delannoy says that it was after Mouret returned from England where he was touring as the operator of the chess automaton (the Turk). He conducted a tour of England in 1819, and was the operator of the Turk throughout 1820, and after. When exactly he returned to Paris (perhaps briefly) and played de la Bourdonnais is unclear, but it must have been at least 1819. Delannoy also says that it was before de la Bourdonnais had 'tackled' Deschapelles, so at least before the long triangular event with Cochrane in 1821. I will guess at 1820, but this may be in error by one year either way, assuming Delannoy's statements are correct. |
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