|  Results  | 
 
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   | Crosstable scores | 
 
  | Name  | 
   Edo    | 
  Dev.   | 
  Score | 
   /  | 
  Games    | 
 
  | Blackburne, Joseph    | 
  2636 |   (35) | 
  8 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Schallopp, Emil    | 
  2544 |   (36) | 
  7.5 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Bird, Henry    | 
  2502 |   (31) | 
  7.5 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Mackenzie, George    | 
  2579 |   (31) | 
  7 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Mason, James    | 
  2570 |   (36) | 
  5.5 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Gunsberg, Isidor    | 
  2576 |   (33) | 
  5.5 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Skipworth, Arthur    | 
  2280 |   (45) | 
  3.5 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Thorold, Edmund    | 
  2333 |   (38) | 
  3 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Pollock, William    | 
  2368 |   (32) | 
  3 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Ranken, Charles    | 
  2238 |   (50) | 
  3 |   / |   10  | 
 
  | Owen, John    | 
  2324 |   (43) | 
  1.5 |   / |   10  | 
 
 
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Match scores
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Event table notes
 
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| Event data |  
   | Name: 15th Counties Chess Association Meeting - Master Tournament    | 
 
   | Place: Hereford    | 
 
   | Start date: 4 Aug. 1885 | 
 
   | End date:   13 Aug. 1885 | 
 
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   | Notes: | 
 
   | Di Felice gives the second place play-off (1-1) between Bird and Schallopp, omitted by Gaige, Feenstra Kuiper, Reichhelm and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi. | 
 
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   | References | 
 
| Books |  
   |    Barcza, Magyar Sakktörténet, Vol.1, page 245 | 
 
   |    Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 94 | 
 
   |    Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 32 | 
 
   |    Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 105 | 
 
   |    Gaige, Chess Tournament Crosstables I, page 45 | 
 
   |    Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 223 | 
 
   |    Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 143 | 
 
   |    Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 197, 319 | 
 
   |    Skipworth, Counties' Chess Association, page 8 | 
 
| Web |  
   |    Sericano, C.  [Hereford 1885] | 
 
 
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