Chigorin–Tarrasch Match 1893
Twenty-two games and an exact Saint Petersburg tie
Mikhail Chigorin and Siegbert Tarrasch divided a twenty-two-game Saint Petersburg match. Each won nine games and four were drawn, leaving the result 11–11.
A level contest
The match ran from 8 October to 14 November 1893. Nine wins apiece and four draws produced an exact tie in both decisive games and points.
Edo documents shorter minority score reports but adopts +9 −9 =4 because that is the result given by the broader source record.
All twenty-two scores
All twenty-two games are here, and they leave the players level on 11 points each.
Because the archive and the adopted historical result agree, the headline should present the match as drawn without naming a winner.
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 | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chigorin | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
| Tarrasch | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
1 win · ½ draw · 0 loss — click a game number to replay it.