Jerry Spinrad wrote:

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

One possibility is that they don't report the same thing. I assume
draws were not counted, in which case games played and games scored
would be differnet.

A similar case occurs in old tournaments where someone dropped out
after, say, half the game, and his games are dropped, instead of being
defaulted. You can then find scores from that tournament that can't
be found in the crosstable. Not until a detailed report is examined
is the seeming discrepancy explained.


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