| Results |
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Match scores
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| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
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Games |
| Barnes, Thomas |
2458 | (45) |
4 | / | 4 |
| Bloundell |
1846 | (117) |
0 | / | 4 |
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| Brien, Robert |
2410 | (45) |
7 | / | 13 |
| Green, Valentine |
2288 | (38) |
6 | / | 13 |
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| Kenny, Charles |
2318 | (38) |
4 | / | 5 |
| Crawshay, S. |
1981 | (129) |
1 | / | 5 |
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| Falkbeer, Ernst |
2456 | (43) |
4 | / | 4 |
| Janssens, Franciscus |
2388 | (39) |
0 | / | 4 |
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| Zytogórski, Adolf |
2408 | (46) |
5 | / | 7 |
| Muller (1) |
2092 | (108) |
2 | / | 7 |
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| de Szabo, Emeric |
2302 | (42) |
3 | / | 4 |
| Winn (1) |
2005 | (133) |
1 | / | 4 |
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| Barnes, Thomas |
2458 | (45) |
4.5 | / | 5 |
| Kenny, Charles |
2318 | (38) |
0.5 | / | 5 |
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| de Szabo, Emeric |
2302 | (42) |
2 | / | 4 |
| Zytogórski, Adolf |
2408 | (46) |
2 | / | 4 |
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| Barnes, Thomas |
2458 | (45) |
3 | / | 5 |
| Falkbeer, Ernst |
2456 | (43) |
2 | / | 5 |
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| de Szabo, Emeric |
2302 | (42) |
3 | / | 5 |
| Barnes, Thomas |
2458 | (45) |
2 | / | 5 |
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| Falkbeer, Ernst |
2456 | (43) |
3.5 | / | 6 |
| de Szabo, Emeric |
2302 | (42) |
2.5 | / | 6 |
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| Falkbeer, Ernst |
2456 | (43) |
1 | / | 1 |
| Barnes, Thomas |
2458 | (45) |
0 | / | 1 |
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: McDonnell Chess Club Tournament |
| Place: London, England |
| Start date: Jan. 1856 |
| End date: Feb. 1856 |
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| Notes: |
| 12-player knockout tournament. Spinrad gives Szabo-Winn score as 3-1, as does La Grande Storia degli Scacchi, but Di Felice gives +3-0=0. Spinrad gives Zytogorski-Muller as 5-2, from Schach Datenbank, but indicates that the CPC gives +4-1=1. La Grande Storia degli Scacchi and Di Felice both give 5-2. In round 1 Winn retired before Szabo won 4 games. In round 2 Zytogorski retired before Szabo won 4 games and Falkbeer beat Brien by default. The 3 finalists each won against one and lost against the other opponent, but Szabo retired and Falkbeer and Barnes played a single play-off game. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 20 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 91 |
| Periodicals |
| [BLL], 16 Mar. 1856, page 8 |
| [CPC], vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 1856, page 30 |
| [CPC], vol. 4, no. 4, Apr. 1856, page 119 |
| [Era], vol. 18, no. 906, 3 Feb. 1856, page 13 |
| [SLM], vol. 8, no. 2, Feb. 1856, page 127 |
| Web |
| Sericano, C. [London, McDonnell Chess Club, 1856] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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