Steinitz, W. – Green, V. 1864




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Steinitz, Wilhelm    2604 (46) 8/
Green, Valentine    2246 (50) 1/
 
Status: formal

Event table notes

Event data
Place: London, England
Start date: Dec. 1863
End date: Jan. 1864
 
Notes:
Sergeant gives the result as +5-0=2 for Steinitz; the Era of 10 Jan. 1864 (p.6) gives +7-0=1 for Steinitz; other sources give +7-0=2 for Steinitz. Harding considers all the evidence and concludes that the latter is correct. Feenstra Kuiper and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give date as 1864; Sunnucks and Di Felice give 1863-1864; Spinrad gives 1863. The result of +1-0=1 for Steinitz after the first two games is given in the Era of 27 Dec. 1863 (p.4), so I presume that it started in that month.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 39
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 17
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 97, 347
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 135
   Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 467
Periodicals
   [CPM], vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1864, page 11
   [CPM], vol. 2, no. 2, Feb. 1864, page 49
   [Era], vol. 26, no. 1318, 27 Dec. 1863, page 4
   [Era], vol. 26, no. 1320, 10 Jan. 1864, page 6
   [SZ], vol. 19, no. 3, Mar. 1864, page 84
Web
   Sericano, C.  [I grandi matches 1850 - 1864]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

Match information updated: 8 Jan. 2024