| Results |
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Match scores
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| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
/ |
Games |
| Lichtenhein, Theodor |
2494 | (56) |
3 | / | 5 |
| Stanley, Charles |
2372 | (53) |
2 | / | 5 |
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| Perrin, Frederic |
2299 | (38) |
4 | / | 7 |
| Knott, Hubert |
2165 | (80) |
3 | / | 7 |
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| Meek, Alexander |
1929 | (94) |
3 | / | 5 |
| Fuller, William |
1842 | (99) |
2 | / | 5 |
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| Morphy, Paul |
2800 | (34) |
3 | / | 3 |
| Thompson, James (1) |
2293 | (52) |
0 | / | 3 |
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| Raphael, Benjamin |
2169 | (58) |
3.5 | / | 6 |
| Kennicott, Hiram |
2054 | (93) |
2.5 | / | 6 |
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| Marache, Napoleon |
2256 | (50) |
3 | / | 5 |
| Fiske, Daniel |
2276 | (83) |
2 | / | 5 |
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| Montgomery, Hardman |
2401 | (67) |
3 | / | 4 |
| Allison, William |
2093 | (139) |
1 | / | 4 |
| |
| Paulsen, Louis |
2623 | (58) |
3 | / | 3 |
| Calthrop, Samuel |
1826 | (158) |
0 | / | 3 |
| |
| Lichtenhein, Theodor |
2494 | (56) |
3 | / | 3 |
| Perrin, Frederic |
2299 | (38) |
0 | / | 3 |
| |
| Morphy, Paul |
2800 | (34) |
3 | / | 3 |
| Meek, Alexander |
1929 | (94) |
0 | / | 3 |
| |
| Raphael, Benjamin |
2169 | (58) |
4 | / | 7 |
| Marache, Napoleon |
2256 | (50) |
3 | / | 7 |
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| Paulsen, Louis |
2623 | (58) |
2 | / | 2 |
| Montgomery, Hardman |
2401 | (67) |
0 | / | 2 |
| |
| Morphy, Paul |
2800 | (34) |
3.5 | / | 4 |
| Lichtenhein, Theodor |
2494 | (56) |
0.5 | / | 4 |
| |
| Paulsen, Louis |
2623 | (58) |
3.5 | / | 4 |
| Raphael, Benjamin |
2169 | (58) |
0.5 | / | 4 |
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| Morphy, Paul |
2800 | (34) |
6 | / | 8 |
| Paulsen, Louis |
2623 | (58) |
2 | / | 8 |
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| Lichtenhein, Theodor |
2494 | (56) |
3 | / | 3 |
| Raphael, Benjamin |
2169 | (58) |
0 | / | 3 |
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: 1st American Chess Congress |
| Place: New York |
| Start date: 5 Oct. 1857 |
| End date: 10 Nov. 1857 |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 23 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 18, 202 |
| Féry d'Esclands, Congrès des Échecs 1867, page xxxii |
| Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 209, 235, 259 |
| Gaige, Chess Tournament Crosstables I, page 2 |
| Gilberg, Fifth American Chess Congress, page 1 |
| Lange and Falkbeer, Paul Morphy Sketch, page 29 |
| Lawson, Paul Morphy, page 58, 329 |
| Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 141 |
| Periodicals |
| [CMNY], vol. 1, no. 11, Nov. 1857, page 351 |
| [CMNY], vol. 1, no. 12, Dec. 1857, page 378 |
| [Era], vol. 20, no. 998, 8 Nov. 1857, page 14 |
| [FLIN], 24 Oct. 1857 |
| [FLIN], 31 Oct. 1857 |
| [FLIN], 14 Nov. 1857 |
| [ILN], vol. 31, no. 888, 21 Nov. 1857, page 518 |
| [ILN], vol. 31, no. 891, 5 Dec. 1857, page 571 |
| [NYC], 17 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYC], 24 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYC], 31 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYC], 7 Nov. 1857 |
| [NYC], 14 Nov. 1857 |
| [NYTi], 7 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTi], 9 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTi], 14 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 7 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 8 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 9 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 10 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 12 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 13 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 14 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 21 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 26 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 28 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 29 Oct. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 3 Nov. 1857 |
| [NYTr], 7 Nov. 1857 |
| Web |
| Cree, Graeme. [1st American Chess Congress] (broken) |
| Edge, Frederick Milnes. [Frederick Edge Meets Paul Morphy - in his own write] |
| Morphy, Paul. [A Letter from Morphy to Maurian, November 16, 1857] |
| Sarah. [American Chess Congress] |
| Sericano, C. [New York, 1857] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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