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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Place: Paris |
| Start date: 1820 |
| End date: 1820 |
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| Notes: |
| 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. These games at odds were played after de la Bourdonnais had won a series of games played even. Those games are recorded separately here. Delannoy's description suggests that three games were played at the odds of Pawn and Two Moves, with the stakes increasing each time, from 40 francs to 80 francs to 600 francs. 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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