Graz 1870




Results
 
Crosstable scores
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games   
Berger, Johann    2550 (72) 24.5 / 26 
Kos, Kaspar    2379 (98) 23.5 / 26 
Göring, Carl    2406 (59) 22.5 / 26 
Jungbauer, Franz    2076 (113) 17 / 24 
Fridrich, Gottfried    1890 (121) 15.5 / 26 
Posener, Heinrich    1790 (122) 13 / 26 
von Helms    1625 (126) 8 / 24 
Wewerka, F.    1881 (123) 10 / 20 
Blaschke    1650 (125) 9 / 26 
Braune, Robert    1653 (125) 9 / 24 
Leyer    1571 (127) 6.5 / 24 
von Kuenberg    1516 (130) 4.5 / 23 
Corti, Franz    1528 (128) 5.5 / 26 
von Steindl    1509 (129) 4.5 / 25 
 
 

Event table notes

Event data
Name: 1st Austrian Chess Federation (?) Congress
Place: Graz
Start date: 15 Sep. 1870
End date: 24 Sep. 1870
 
Notes:
This was a 14-player, double-round all-play-all tournament. Feenstra Kuiper (in Hundert Jahre Schachzweikämpfe) and Di Felice give only total scores for each player. La Grande Storia degli Scacchi fills in a handful of crosstable entries as well as giving total scores. The Schachzeitung of Nov. 1870 also gives a few of the results of individual encounters, but otherwise just total scores. The Schachzeitung also says that Wewerka forfeited 6 games (2 against each of von Helms, Leyer, and von Kuenberg) and Braune forfeited 2 against Jungbauer. Nevertheless, the official scores given add to 181, whereas if all games were accounted for the total would be 182, so one game was not played or someone's score is one point short. I will (rather arbitrarily) assume that one of the games between von Kuenberg and von Steindl is unaccounted for (these are the two lowest rated after the forfeited games are removed), but if this is wrong a slight error in ratings will result.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 51
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 199
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 118
Periodicals
   [Era], vol. 33, no. 1689, 5 Feb. 1871, page 4
   [IZL], vol. 55, no. 1424, 15 Oct. 1870, page 276
   [NBSZ], vol. 7, no. 9, 1870, page 288
   [SoT], 17 Dec. 1870
   [SoT], 24 Dec. 1870
   [SZ], vol. 25, no. 10, Oct. 1870, page 296
   [SZ], vol. 25, no. 11, Nov. 1870, page 321
   [SZ], vol. 26, no. 2, Feb. 1871, page 53
Web
   Sericano, C.  [Graz 1870]

Tournament information updated: 6 Oct. 2024