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Event table notes
 
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| Event data |  
   | Place: Philadelphia    | 
 
   | Start date: 1889 | 
 
   | End date:   1889 | 
 
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   | Notes: | 
 
   | Reichhelm gives this result of an offhand game, played during Pollock's visit to Philadelphia sometime after the 6th American Chess Congress (which ended in late May 1889). | 
 
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   | References | 
 
| Books |  
   |    Hilbert, Essays in American Chess History, page 6 | 
 
   |    Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 17 | 
 
 
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