London, England (12-29 July 1886)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 Score Place/Prize
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1 Blackburne • 1 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 8½* 1st £80
2 Burn 0 • 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8½ 2nd £50
3 Gunsberg 0 1 • 0 ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 8 3rd-4th £32 10s
4 Taubenhaus 1 0 1 • ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 0 1 1 8 3rd-4th £32 10s
5 Mason ½ ½ ½ ½ • 1 1 ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ 7 5th £15
6 Lipschutz ½ 1 0 0 0 • 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 6½
7 Mackenzie ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 • 1 1 0 1 1 1 6
8 Zukertort 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 • 1 1 1 ½ 1 6
9 Schallopp 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 • 1 0 1 1 5
10 Pollock 1 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 0 0 • 0 1 0 4½
11 Mortimer 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 • 0 0 4
12 Hanham 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 1 • 1 3½
13 Bird 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 • 2½
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* Blackburne won the playoff for first place.
Format: Single Round Robin, draws scoring ½.
Time Control: 20 moves per hour.
First Place playoff:
1 2 Score
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Blackburne 1 ½ 1½
Burn 0 ½ ½
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Third Place playoff:
1 2 Score
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Gunsberg ½ ½ 1
Taubenhaus ½ ½ 1
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Introduction
The Chess Congress of the B.C.A., London, 1886, will be held at the Victoria Hall, Criterion, commencing on Monday, July 12th, and concluding on Wednesday, July 28th, 1886. Programme.—I. International Masters' Tournament. Open to those members only who have previously played in a masters' tournament, or who shall obtained permission to enter from the committee. Entrance fee, £2; deposit, £3. The following prizes are offered for competition:—First prize, £80; second, £50; third, £40; fourth, £25; fifth, £15. The total of the entrance fees will be divided among the non prize-winners in accordance with the "Gelbfuhs" system. (1)
Rules (1)
1. Entries will close on the 9th of July. Subject to the discretion of the council, entry may be allowed up to the commencement of play, if satisfactory reasons be furnished. Such application must be made in writing to the hon. sec., Mr. L. Hoffer, British Chess Club, 49, Leicester-square, W.
2. The entrance fee is £2. A deposit of £3 will also be required, to be held subject to rule 16, and must be paid before the commencement of the tournament to the hon. treasurer.
3. Play will commence on the 12th of July, and will continue daily (Sundays excepted) to the conclusion of the tournament.
4. The tournament will be played in one round, unless the number of entries should be under ten, in which case two rounds will be played. If only one round is played, each player will have the first move in half his games as far as practicable.
5. The time limit shall be twenty moves an hour, to be regulated by stop clocks.
6. The hours of play will be from 12 noon to 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Throughout these hours of play, one member of the playing committee will be present, to be referred to by the players in case of dispute. All questions of fact will be at once decided by such member of the playing committee, and his decision will be final.
7. A drawn game will count one half to each player.
8. Unfinished games shall be played out as the playing committee shall direct.\
9. The player who exceeds the time limit forfeits the game, which will be scored as won by his opponent. It is the duty, not only of his antagonist, but also of any competitor aware of the fact, to at once bring any infraction of the time limit under the notice of the member of the playing committee present, who will decide on the facts of the case, and such decision shall be final. No other person may interfere in any way, either as regards the time limit or any infraction of the ordinary rules of play, unless called upon to give evidence as to the facts.
10. The clock of the player who does not appear at the hour fixed for play, or after the adjournment, will be set in motion by the member of the playing committee present, and, after a delay of one hour, the game will be lost by the absentee under the time limit. If he arrives before the expiration of the hour he must make twenty moves in whatever interval of time is left at his disposal. Should neither player appear within one hour of the fixed time, the game will be counted as lost against both. If a player's clock be set in motion after the adjournment, the amount of time at his disposal beforehand will be taken into consideration.
11. At the hour fixed for adjournment the player whose turn it is to move must deliver his next move in writing, in a closed envelope, to the member of the playing committee present. Such envelope will be opened after the adjournment by the member of the playing committee then present, in the presence of both the competitors, and such member will make on the board the move as written down.
12. Consultation and analysing moves on a chessboard during adjournment is strictly prohibited, and any competitor proved guilty of the same will be expelled from the tournament, and will forfeit his entrance fee and deposit.
13. No player shall be at liberty to withdraw from the tournament without consent of the committee. Should he do so his deposit shall be forfeited.
14. If, notwithstanding the previous rule, any competitor withdraw from the tournament, his score in either round will stand, if he has completed half that round, and his unplayed games will be scored against him. If he has played less than half of that round his score will be annulled, and in this case his deposit will be given, at the discretion of the council, as a solatium, for division among those players who have won games from him in that round, which will not count towards their score.
15. All the games are to be the property of the B.C.A. The winner of a game or the first player in a drawn game is bound to deliver a correct, legible copy, at latest before ten p.m. on the following play day to the member of the playing committee then present. Non-compliance with this rule involves a penalty of 10s., to be enforced at the discretion of the playing committee.
16. The "Revised International Chess Code," as published in the book of the London International Chess Tournament of 1883, will be in force.
17. The council reserves to themselves absolute power to modify any of the above rules under circumstances which seem equitably to demand their interference, and to deal with all cases no provided for, at their discretion.
Brilliancy Prize
Schallopp won the Lewis brilliancy prize, £2 2s, for Gunsberg vs E Schallopp, 1886.
Other Prizes
The amount of the entrance fees, £26, was divided amongest the non-prize winners, calculated on the Gelbfuhs system: S. Lipschutz, 36¼ points, £4 13s 8d; G. H. Mackenzie, 29¼ points, £3 15s 7d; J. H. Zukertort, 29¼ points, £3 15s 7d; W. H. K. Pollock, 28½ points, £3 13s 8d; E. Schallopp, 25½ points, £3 5s 11d; J. Mortimer, 24½ points, £3 3s 4d; J. M. Hanham, 16 points, £2 1s 4d; H. E Bird, 12 points, £1 11s 0d.
Sources
(1) London Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 1886.06.19, pp408-409
(2) British Chess Magazine, v6 n8/9, August/September 1886, p359
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