| Results |
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| Crosstable scores |
| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
/ |
Games |
Class |
| Neill, Benjamin |
2511 | (59) |
40 | / | 52 |
1 |
| Roberts, James |
2424 | (71) |
38.5 | / | 52 |
1 |
| Elson, Jacob |
2434 | (44) |
37.5 | / | 52 |
1 |
| Kaiser, Julius |
2145 | (123) |
37 | / | 52 |
2 |
| Davidson, Harry |
2460 | (54) |
35 | / | 52 |
1 |
| Fisher, H.A. |
2080 | (142) |
34.5 | / | 52 |
2 |
| Savage, F. |
2069 | (142) |
33.5 | / | 52 |
2 |
| Roberts, Albert |
2367 | (60) |
32 | / | 52 |
1 |
| Stout, George |
2071 | (129) |
30.5 | / | 52 |
2 |
| Russell, S.F. |
| |
30 | / | 52 |
5 |
| Sayen, William |
2248 | (75) |
29 | / | 52 |
1 |
| Barbour, Lorenzo |
2315 | (56) |
29 | / | 52 |
1 |
| Hewes, G.W. |
1999 | (143) |
27 | / | 52 |
2 |
| Fisher, James |
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24.5 | / | 52 |
4 |
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| Odds for class difference of 1: pawn and two moves |
| Odds for class difference of 2: a knight |
| Odds for class difference of 3: a rook |
| Odds for class difference of 4: a rook |
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: Philadelphia Chess Club Tournament |
| Place: Philadelphia |
| Start date: 1875 |
| End date: May 1875 |
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| Notes: |
| Partial results available. Reichhelm gives only total scores and handicap classes for 14 of the players, but lists all 27 players in the tournament. The scores are consistent with a 27-player, double-round all-play-all, which I will assume. The players for whom Reichhelm lists information fall into classes A, B, D and E, with class B players receiving odds of Pawn and 2 moves (presumably from class A), class D receiving Rook odds. Two class E player are listed, one (S.F. Russell) receiving Rook and move odds (from class A), the other (W.H. Helmbold) receiving Rook and Knight odds. This makes it difficult to know what odds these players received from the other classes. We can deduce that differences of 1, 2, and 3 classes were associated with odds of Pawn and 2 moves, Knight, and Rook. But it is unclear whether Helmbold received greater odds than Russell from other classes. Therefore, I have left Helmbold out of the 'available' results (he scored 26 and came 14th). Since my rating differential equivalent of Rook odds is anyway very approximate, I have not differentiated it from Rook and move odds, but left Russell in class E to ackowledge that he (presumably) received greater odds from other classes than class D players. Dates are not given by Reichhelm, but it is mentioned in the Westminster Papers of Apr. 1, 1875 that the tournament was in progress, and in the Illustrated London News of 12 June 1875 that it was finished. So I will guess that it finished in May 1875. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 32 |
| Periodicals |
| [ILN], vol. 66, 12 June 1875, page 571 |
| [WP], vol. 7, 1 Apr. 1875, page 239 |
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