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Event table notes
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   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 102 |  
   | Elo, Rating of Chessplayers, page 91 |  
   | Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 21 |  
   | Forster, Amos Burn, page 199 |  
   | Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 268 |  
   | Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 32, 52 |  
   | Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 203 |  | Periodicals |  
   | [BCM], vol. 6, no. 7, July 1886, page 294 |  
   | [BCM], vol. 11, no. 8, Aug. 1891, page 392 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 9, no. 303, 2 June 1886, page 525 |  | Web |  
   | Winter, Edward.  [Steinitz Quotes] |  |  |