Saint Petersburg 1877




Results
 
Crosstable scores
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games   
Chigorin, Mikhail    2525 (62) 4.5 /
Schiffers, Emanuel    2501 (57) 4 /
Asharin, Andreas    2435 (67) 3 /
Clemenz, Hermann    2339 (77) 1.5 /
Alapin, Semyon    2409 (68) 1 /
 
 

Event table notes

Event data
Name: Saint Petersburg Tournament
Place: Saint Petersburg
Start date: Oct. 1877
End date: Dec. 1877
 
Notes:
This was intended to be a two-round all-play-all between 5 players, but only 14 of the 20 games were actually played. Gaige gives what appears to be a partial result, before the event was finished, and dated 1876 (from the Baltische Schachblatter, vol.5, p.13), as does Sericano. Di Felice gives both the result from Gaige, with date '1877 (1876?)' and the complete result as if it were a separate event. The biography of Chigorin by Jimmy Adams gives Chigorin's result but dated 1876. The true situation is given in the Sept./Oct. and Nov./Dec. issues of Shakhmatniy Listok (sent to me by Geert Van der Wulp). The tournament was played between Oct. and Dec. 1877. Some small tournaments were played in Saint Petersburg in 1876, but these were different events.
 
References
Books
   Adams, Mikhail Chigorin, page 29
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 66, 67
   Gaige, Chess Tournament Crosstables I, page 20
Periodicals
   [SLk], Sep. 1877, page 254
   [SLk], Nov. 1877, page 320
Web
   Sericano, C.  [Saint Petersburg 1876]

Tournament information updated: 5 Sept. 2020