London, England 1881 (1)




Results
 
Match scores
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Baddeley, John    2086 (89) 1 /
Warner, J.H.    2146 (99) 1 /
 
Blackburne, Joseph    2612 (32) 0 /
Zukertort, Johannes    2669 (36) 1 /
 
Block, Theodore    2077 (75) 1.5 /
Puller, Charles    2046 (102) 0.5 /
 
Earnshaw, Samuel    1847 (100) 0 /
Lewis, Lewis    2106 (129) 2 /
 
Gunsberg, Isidor    2477 (43) 1 /
Ballard, William    2299 (76) 1 /
 
Healey, Frank    2108 (99) 1 /
Lindsay, William    2089 (49) 1 /
 
Heywood, George    2202 (56) 0.5 /
Ball, W.F.    2043 (67) 0.5 /
 
Huckvale, James    2073 (83) 0 /
Salter, David    2128 (56) 2 /
 
Jackson, S. (1)    2 /
Gunston, William    2279 (83) 0 /
 
Janssens, Franciscus    2111 (97) 0.5 /
Minchin, James    2277 (43) 1.5 /
 
Lord, Frederick    2271 (79) 0.5 /
Ranken, Charles    2285 (44) 0.5 /
 
MacDonnell, George    2445 (57) 1 /
Wayte, William    2328 (41) 0 /
 
Mason, James    2580 (38) 1 /
Hirschfeld, Philipp    2282 (100) 0 /
 
Potter, William    2577 (65) 2 /
Owen, John    2347 (46) 0 /
 
Stevens, Samuel    2085 (72) 0 /
Gattie, Walter    2200 (58) 2 /
 
Vyse, W. Elliot    2091 (63) 0 /
Marett, Charles    2169 (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