Correct Results for Birmingham 1858
This was a major tournament (even Morphy was entered, but he withdrew)
won by Loewenthal and including such players as Staunton and Saint
Amant; it was a much watched tournament at the time. Surprisingly, the
results given in standard sources seem to be incorrect. I was
surprised to find in the book of the 1862 tournament that, for
example, the match Falkbeer-Ingleby was given as 2-0-3 rather than the
2-0 given in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games and the old
Schach-Datenbank site (which doesn't seem to have the results it used
to have stored; what happened to this?). I also have conflicting
results on the matches Owen-Salmon, Falkbeer-Brien,
Loewenthal-Falkbeer, and some I was not able to check. Unfortunately,
the copy of the 1862 book was in such bad condition that I was not
allowed to even copy it, and had to give it back before I could read
it at leisure.
Does anyone have the results for this? Thanks (likely to Anderss) in
advance.
And as I mentioned in another post, any information on the 8 player
minor tournament won by Boden which was played at the same time would
be appreciated.
Jerry Spinrad
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