| Results |
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| Crosstable scores |
| Name |
Edo |
Dev. |
Score |
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Games |
| Anderssen, Adolf |
2656 | (43) |
11.5 | / | 13 |
| Paulsen, Louis |
2664 | (40) |
10 | / | 13 |
| Owen, John |
2492 | (53) |
10 | / | 16 |
| MacDonnell, George |
2526 | (50) |
7 | / | 11 |
| Dubois, Serafino |
2619 | (50) |
6.5 | / | 10 |
| Steinitz, Wilhelm |
2595 | (46) |
7.5 | / | 14 |
| Barnes, Thomas |
2446 | (56) |
8.5 | / | 16 |
| Hannah, James |
2361 | (54) |
4.5 | / | 11 |
| Blackburne, Joseph |
2409 | (49) |
5 | / | 14 |
| Löwenthal, Johann |
2494 | (73) |
3 | / | 3 |
| Robey, James |
2180 | (84) |
2 | / | 10 |
| Deacon, Frederic |
2401 | (55) |
2.5 | / | 8 |
| Mongrédien, Augustus (1) |
2279 | (58) |
5 | / | 18 |
| Green, Valentine |
2214 | (46) |
4 | / | 17 |
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Event table notes
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| Event data |
| Name: Grand Tournament (5th British Chess Association?) |
| Place: London |
| Start date: 16 June 1862 |
| End date: 31 July 1862 |
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| Notes: |
| Draws played are included here, though not counted in official scores. Several games were not played. Discrepancies: Gaige is missing the draw for Mongredien against Anderssen (though it is indicated for Anderssen against Mongredien and the drawn game is known, so just a typgraphic error); Feenstra Kuiper and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi have Dubois winning against Macdonnell, while Gaige, Di Felice and Spinrad have Macdonnell winning by default (not played) against Dubois; Feenstra Kuiper and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi have Barnes-Macdonnell not played, while Gaige, Di Felice and Spinrad have Barnes winning against Macdonnell. I have followed Gaige. Dates are also unclear. Feenstra Kuiper gives 13-06-1862 to 5-07-1862 from Anderssen's book ('nach Buch Anderssen') as well as 16-06-1862 to 2-08-1862 from Steinitz's book ('nach Buch Steinitz'). Di Felice accepts the former. Gaige gives 16-06-1862 to 31-07-1862. The Illustrated London News of June 21 says that pairings were decided on 13 June for 'the approaching tournaments' so I accept June 16 as a plausible starting date. The Illustrated London News of July 26 says that the tournament 'concluded during the present week' so it seems to have finished before July 26, though it was not finished at the time the July 19 issue of the Illustrated London News was prepared. Also, there is some confusion because the July 26 issue also indicates that Dubois and Steinitz (and possibly Barnes) were to play another round to decide 5th and 6th prizes, but I have no source that indicates whether such play-offs took place or the result if it did. So I will tentatively accept Gaige's end date of July 31 (it is odd that both Gaige and Feenstra Kuiper cite Löwenthal's book of the congress as a source, yet they disagree on details). According to Löwenthal's tournament book (p.liii) Mongredien and Barnes played their game on 14 Jun. 1862, two days before the official start of the tournament. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 35 |
| Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 19, 202 |
| Gaige, Chess Tournament Crosstables I, page 6 |
| Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 142 |
| Periodicals |
| [ILN], vol. 40, 21 June 1862, page 644 |
| [ILN], vol. 41, 26 July 1862, page 95 |
| Web |
| Sericano, C. [I campionati del mondo fino al 1885] |
| Sericano, C. [London 1862] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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