London, England 1881 (1)




Results
 
Match scores
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Baddeley, John    2083 (89) 1 /
Warner, J.H.    2148 (99) 1 /
 
Blackburne, Joseph    2611 (33) 0 /
Zukertort, Johannes    2668 (36) 1 /
 
Block, Theodore    2079 (85) 1.5 /
Puller, Charles    2047 (103) 0.5 /
 
Earnshaw, Samuel    1842 (100) 0 /
Lewis, Lewis    2101 (129) 2 /
 
Gunsberg, Isidor    2475 (43) 1 /
Ballard, William    2299 (76) 1 /
 
Healey, Frank    2107 (101) 1 /
Lindsay, W.A.    2085 (49) 1 /
 
Heywood, George    2206 (58) 0.5 /
Ball, W.F.    2041 (67) 0.5 /
 
Huckvale, James    2026 (96) 0 /
Salter, David    2121 (56) 2 /
 
Jackson, S. (1)    2 /
Gunston, William    2281 (83) 0 /
 
Janssens, Franciscus    2108 (97) 0.5 /
Minchin, James    2274 (43) 1.5 /
 
Lord, Frederick    2141 (99) 0.5 /
Ranken, Charles    2276 (44) 0.5 /
 
MacDonnell, George    2426 (60) 1 /
Wayte, William    2323 (41) 0 /
 
Mason, James    2579 (38) 1 /
Hirschfeld, Philipp    2282 (102) 0 /
 
Potter, William    2563 (68) 2 /
Owen, John    2335 (47) 0 /
 
Stevens, Samuel    2113 (75) 0 /
Gattie, Walter    2205 (58) 2 /
 
Vyse, W. Elliot    2090 (66) 0 /
Marett, Charles    2164 (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