Article Number
LXGILLON186869
Author
London 1868/9
55 pages, stitched with jacket, The Chess Player, 1. edition 2003
From the series »Rare and Unpublished Tournaments«
London 1868/9 was not a straightforward chess tournament, it was more of a festival of chess which lasted nearly four months and consisted of five separate competitions, a match by telegraph plus some consultation games. The competitions were:
1: a blindfold match between Steinitz and Blackburne which may still be unique
2: the Mongredien Tournament in which the pieces on each player's bank rank were slightly rearranged before play began
3: a knock-out handicap tournament
4: the Glowworm Tournament (named after its sponsor, The Glowworm newspaper) which was a knock-out tournament played on level terms for British players
5: the main tournament for the Challenge Cup, a large silver trophy, first competed for at London 1866. 20 moves in two hours was the time limit, to be measured by sandglasses and each player was expected to play 5 games per week. This would have completed the tournament in a little over two weeks, but was not adhered to. Later the rule seems to have been amended to at least one game per week!
Surprisingly, most of the games of the Challenge Cup event were published, as were a large selection of games from the other events. These appeared in the major chess columns of the period and in 'Transactions of the British Chess Association 1868/9' by Löwenthal and Medley. This last source was very scarce until it was reprinted recently...
1: a blindfold match between Steinitz and Blackburne which may still be unique
2: the Mongredien Tournament in which the pieces on each player's bank rank were slightly rearranged before play began
3: a knock-out handicap tournament
4: the Glowworm Tournament (named after its sponsor, The Glowworm newspaper) which was a knock-out tournament played on level terms for British players
5: the main tournament for the Challenge Cup, a large silver trophy, first competed for at London 1866. 20 moves in two hours was the time limit, to be measured by sandglasses and each player was expected to play 5 games per week. This would have completed the tournament in a little over two weeks, but was not adhered to. Later the rule seems to have been amended to at least one game per week!
Surprisingly, most of the games of the Challenge Cup event were published, as were a large selection of games from the other events. These appeared in the major chess columns of the period and in 'Transactions of the British Chess Association 1868/9' by Löwenthal and Medley. This last source was very scarce until it was reprinted recently...
| EAN | 190103450X |
|---|---|
| Weight | 100 g |
| Manufacturer | The Chess Player |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Height | 21.5 cm |
| Medium | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2003 |
| Author | Anthony J. Gillam |
| Series | Rare and Unpublished Tournaments |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN-10 | 190103450X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-901034-50-9 |
| Pages | 55 |
| Binding | stitched with jacket |