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🏆 London Minor Tournament (1899)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Frank Marshall, Georg Marco, Johannes Esser, Jacques Mieses, Edward Mackenzie Jackson, Edward Owen Jones, Stephen Francis Smith, Oscar Mueller, Thomas Physick, Henry Erskine

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London Minor Tournament (1899)

London, England (30 May-14 June 1899) 

                                     1 1 1
                   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2  Score  Place/Prize
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 1 Marshall        • ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 +    8½   1st     £70
 2 Marco           ½ • ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1    8    2nd-3rd £40
 3 Physick         1 ½ • ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1    8    2nd-3rd £40
 4 Jones           0 ½ ½ • 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1    7½   4th-5th £12 10s.
 5 Mieses          ½ ½ ½ 0 • 0 1 1 1 1 1 +    7½   4th-5th £12 10s.
 6 Jackson         0 0 ½ 1 1 • 0 0 0 1 1 +    5½   6th-7th £7 10s.
 7 Smith           0 0 ½ 0 0 1 • 0 1 1 1 1    5½   6th-7th £7 10s.
 8 Muller          ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 • 0 0 1 1    5 
 9 Esser           0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 • 0 0 +    4 
10 Tabuntschikoff  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 • ½ 1    3½ 
11 Erskine         0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ • 1    3 
12 Klimsch         - 0 0 0 - - 0 0 - 0 0 •    0 
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Unplayed games: + for a win, = for a draw, - for a loss.
Format: Single round robin, draws scored ½
Time Control: 20 moves per hour.

A selection of 16 games were included in the tournament book, The Book of the London International Chess Congress 1899 (Longmans Green & Co., 1900).

 page 1 of 1; 9 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. E O Jones vs J Mieses 1-0441899London Minor TournamentB23 Sicilian, Closed
2. Marshall vs J Esser 1-0261899London Minor TournamentC56 Two Knights
3. Marshall vs E O Jones 1-0441899London Minor TournamentC50 Giuoco Piano
4. O Mueller vs E M Jackson  1-0331899London Minor TournamentC77 Ruy Lopez
5. J Mieses vs S F Smith  1-0221899London Minor TournamentC01 French, Exchange
6. G Marco vs S F Smith  1-0341899London Minor TournamentC14 French, Classical
7. J Mieses vs J Esser  1-0501899London Minor TournamentC01 French, Exchange
8. T Physick vs H Erskine  1-0451899London Minor TournamentC01 French, Exchange
9. J Esser vs O Mueller  1-0551899London Minor TournamentC66 Ruy Lopez
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