London, England 1881 (1)




Results
 
Match scores
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Baddeley, John    2088 (89) 1 /
Warner, J.H.    2149 (99) 1 /
 
Blackburne, Joseph    2615 (32) 0 /
Zukertort, Johannes    2670 (36) 1 /
 
Block, Theodore    2080 (75) 1.5 /
Puller, Charles    2049 (102) 0.5 /
 
Earnshaw, Samuel    1850 (100) 0 /
Lewis, Lewis    2109 (129) 2 /
 
Gunsberg, Isidor    2480 (43) 1 /
Ballard, William    2302 (76) 1 /
 
Healey, Frank    2111 (99) 1 /
Lindsay, William    2092 (49) 1 /
 
Heywood, George    2205 (56) 0.5 /
Ball, W.F.    2046 (67) 0.5 /
 
Huckvale, James    2076 (83) 0 /
Salter, David    2131 (56) 2 /
 
Jackson, S. (1)    2 /
Gunston, William    2282 (83) 0 /
 
Janssens, Franciscus    2114 (97) 0.5 /
Minchin, James    2280 (43) 1.5 /
 
Lord, Frederick    2274 (79) 0.5 /
Ranken, Charles    2288 (44) 0.5 /
 
MacDonnell, George    2448 (57) 1 /
Wayte, William    2331 (41) 0 /
 
Mason, James    2582 (38) 1 /
Hirschfeld, Philipp    2284 (100) 0 /
 
Potter, William    2580 (65) 2 /
Owen, John    2350 (46) 0 /
 
Stevens, Samuel    2088 (72) 0 /
Gattie, Walter    2204 (58) 2 /
 
Vyse, W. Elliot    2094 (63) 0 /
Marett, Charles    2172 (86) 1 /
 

Event table notes

Event data
Name: City of London - Saint George's Club Match
Place: London, England
Start date: 24 Mar. 1881
End date: 24 Mar. 1881
 
Notes:
Sergeant says Potter won 2-0 against Owen, but the Chess Monthly of Apr. 1881 (p.225) gives the score as 1-0. It is mentioned there, though, that one game was undecided at the end of play, Owen-Potter, but that it was played out on 26 Mar. 1881 and won by Potter. This is confirmed in the British Chess Magazine of Feb. 1885 (pp.60-61). Sergeant has E.M. Jackson at this event, but since he was born in May 1867, he would have been 13 years old at the time of this event. I have tentatively identified the player as S. Jackson, who played at the City of London Club in the early 1870s (see, for example, the Illustrated London News of 19 Mar. 1870, p.307). I am guessing that the 'Puller' at this event was Charles Giles Puller and not his brother, Arthur Giles Puller, who was less active in the years before his death in 1885.
 
References
Books
   Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 159, 511
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 277
   Renette and Zavatarelli, Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle, page 133
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 181
Periodicals
   [BCM], vol. 5, no. 2, Feb. 1885, page 60
   [CML], vol. 2, no. 8, Apr. 1881, page 225

Tournament information updated: 3 Apr. 2022