Mikhail Chigorin and Isidor Gunsberg played twenty-three games in Havana and finished level. Each player won nine games and five were drawn, producing an 11½–11½ final score.
A match without a winner
The contest began on 1 January 1890 and continued into February. Eighteen decisive games split evenly between the players, and five draws left the points score tied.
Edo’s event record gives both players 11½ points from twenty-three games, exactly matching the archived score.
Nine wins each
All twenty-three games are here: nine wins for Chigorin, nine for Gunsberg, and five draws.
So the match was drawn.
Cross table
| Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chigorin | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11½ |
| Gunsberg | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11½ |
1 win · ½ draw · 0 loss — click a game number to replay it.