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3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago (1874) Chicago, IL, United States; 7 July 1874—16 July 1874 1 2 3 4 5 6 Score Place/Prizes —————————————————————————————————————————————————— 1 Mackenzie •• 10 1½ 11 11 11 8½ 1st $225 2 Hosmer 01 •• 10 11 11 11 8 2nd $150 3 Judd 0½ 01 •• 1½ 11 11 7 3rd $75 4 Bock 00 00 0½ •• 1½ 11 4 5 Congdon 00 00 00 0½ •• 01 1½ 6 Perrin 00 00 00 00 10 •• 1 —————————————————————————————————————————————————— 7 Elder -- -- -- 0½ 11 01 Withdrew 8 Kennicott 00 00 -- -- -- -- Withdrew —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Unplayed games: + for a win, = for a draw, - for a loss. Introduction The 3rd American Chess Congress was held in Chicago, Illinois from July 7th to the 16th, 1874. Eight US players participated in the double rounds event by paying an entry fee of $20. The participants were previous congress winner George Henry Mackenzie, previous congress participants Frederic Elder, Henry Hosmer, Max Judd, Hiram Kennicott and Frederick Perrin, and newcomers Frederick Bock and James Adams Congdon. The time control was 15 moves every hour. For the first time in an organized US tournament draws were not required to be replayed. As with many tournaments from the 19th century, no official scheduling was in place, so the games are organized below according to the days in which play began. Elder and Kennicott withdrew early and their respective scores were cancelled.(1) Missing Games Mackenzie-Congdon Congdon-Mackenzie Bock-Hosmer Hosmer-Bock Notes The previous and next congresses were 2nd American Chess Congress, Cleveland (1871) and 4th American Chess Congress, Philadelphia (1876). Source (1) The Third American Chess Congress, Hannibal 1876, pp24-25 Credit Original collection: Game Collection: Chicago 1874, by User: suenteus po 147.  page 1 of 1; 15 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Judd vs Mackenzie 0-1 51 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C53 Giuoco Piano 2. H Kennicott vs H Hosmer   0-1 32 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago B20 Sicilian 3. F H Elder vs F Bock 0-1 39 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 4. H Kennicott vs Mackenzie   0-1 45 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C53 Giuoco Piano 5. H Hosmer vs M Judd   0-1 56 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C45 Scotch Game 6. F Perrin vs Mackenzie 0-1 25 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago A80 Dutch 7. M Judd vs H Hosmer 0-1 21 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C50 Giuoco Piano 8. J Congdon vs F H Elder 0-1 28 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago D02 Queen's Pawn Game 9. F Bock vs M Judd 0-1 30 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C01 French, Exchange 10. F Perrin vs F Bock 0-1 22 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C53 Giuoco Piano 11. J Congdon vs H Hosmer 0-1 14 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C80 Ruy Lopez, Open 12. F Perrin vs H Hosmer   0-1 37 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago B40 Sicilian 13. F Bock vs Mackenzie 0-1 13 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C25 Vienna 14. F Perrin vs M Judd   0-1 45 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C50 Giuoco Piano 15. J Congdon vs M Judd   0-1 50 1874 3rd American Chess Congress, Chicago C80 Ruy Lopez, Open   REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Sep-22-13    FSR: One rarely sees such a high proportion of Fredericks in a tournament. Mar-07-16    zanzibar: <FSR> or in the comments. (It was 100%, afraid I've just cut it in half!) * * * * * The missing games aren't missing at all, they're forfeits, as explained on the bottom of page 98 of the 5th American Chess Congress tournament book (which does a retrospective review of previous Chess Congresses, and so is the defacto tournament book for both the 3rd and 4th Congresses). <Mr. Bock, who had been playing under the disadvantages attending ill-health, resigned his two games to Mr. Hosmer, and on the last day of the tournament General Congdon resigned his games to Captain Mackenzie. By cancelling the games played by Messrs. Kennicott and Elder, and computing the drawn games as half a won game to each contestant producing a drawn battle, the final score appears as follows: Geo. H. Mackenzie, won 8.5 games. Henry Hosmer, " 8 " Max Judd, " 7 " Frederick Bock, " 4 " J. A. Congdon, " 1.5 " Frederick Perrin, " 1 " (p99/122) > The rules stated that any player who dropped out before completing 2/3 of their schedule would have their results nullified. Thus, the 3rd Congress only had six players, officially. One more aside. The tournament book reports that the <London (1862)> rules were used. This isn't true in one important respect - the players alternated colors in the RR even if a game were drawn in a pairing match. Mar-07-16    zanzibar: Here's the complete list of prizes awarded for the main tournament: < George H. Mackenzie ... First Prize ... $225.00 Henry Hosmer ... ... ... Second Prize ... 150.00 Max Judd ... ... ... ... Third Prize ... 75.00 > Wish <CG> preserved the formatting. Mar-07-16    zanzibar: The full rules were spelled out in Brownson's <Chess Journal v59-69 (1875)> in the beginning of the journal. The distinction begin a draw and a nullified game is mentioned as concerns colors. (I'm wondering what the primary source of the games is, as the 5th Congress Book has none of the actual games). Mar-07-16    zanzibar: So there was a tournament book specific to the Congress issued: http://www.crumiller.com/chess/ches... but it's unavailable on google books. Lyons lists it as the "scarcest of the American Chess Congress Books". Mar-07-16    zanzibar: Again, we have a tournament where journal/newspaper coverage of the games was deliberately limited by the organizers - in an attempt to focus interest on the tournament book. The Westminster Papers (v7 1875) went so far as to comment on this (I guess partly from the experience with London (1860) and Birmingham (1858)): <The Chicago Committee have resolved to publish the games after the tourney in Book form. We can assure them that, in our judgment, this is not wise policy. The games should be published at once, and whilst the players are interested in the subject. We believe that those games of the Baden Tourney and the Vienna Tourney that were published by us as quickly as we could get them were more played over than all the games that have been published since. The games of the last tourney are still being published in the Continental Chess papers, but we never see any one playing over the games, nor do we see them quoted in this Country, Australia or America. (p62) ... We can only repeat that when the book is published no one will read it, except those who have to do so as a matter of business; whereas, if the games had been sent to the journals at once, the whole of them would have been played over by the end of next month. (p82)> Apr-20-16    Erkostic: I just posted on my blog, how two Chicago Newspapers covered the congress, part one can be found here. http://chessreader.blogspot.com/201... Part two to follow. Apr-30-16    Erkostic: Part two of my blog post on the congress http://chessreader.blogspot.com/201... 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