Tournament

13th West German Chess Congress — Masters 1880

1880 · Braunschweig
Louis Paulsen won with 9/10, ahead of Fritz Riemann on 7½. Adolf Schwarz won the three-way third-prize playoff.
Incomplete record·34 of 51 games archived

Incomplete record. This archive holds 34 of the 51 games played; 17 are missing. The masters competition had 48 physically played main-stage games and three required playoff games. Of 51 played scores, 34 are archived; seven additional Pitschel forfeits were unplayed.

Final standings

9/10
Louis Paulsen won with 9/10, ahead of Fritz Riemann on 7½. Adolf Schwarz won the three-way third-prize playoff.

The standings below are the historical final result. Only 33 of the 48 games played survive in our source; the remaining 15 are lost and appear as · in the cross table.

# Player Score Record Games
1 Paulsen, Louis 9/10 +8 -0 =2
2 Riemann, Fritz 7½/10 +6 -1 =3; includes 1 unplayed default win
3 Schwarz, Adolf 7/10 +6 -2 =2; includes 1 unplayed default win
4 Wemmers, Carl 7/10 +6 -2 =2; includes 1 unplayed default win
5 Minckwitz, Johannes 7/10 +6 -2 =2
6 Paulsen, Wilfried 6/10 +5 -3 =2; includes 1 unplayed default win
7 Bier, Martin 4/10 +3 -5 =2; includes 1 unplayed default win
8 Schallopp, Emil 3/10 +2 -6 =2; includes 1 unplayed default win
9 Fritz, Alexander 2½/10 +2 -7 =1
10 Franke, August Wilhelm 2/10 +2 -8 =0; includes 1 unplayed default win
11 Pitschel, Karl 0/10 +0 -10 =0; includes 7 unplayed default losses

Cross Table

Rank Player 1234567891011
1 Paulsen, Louis ½ 1 1 1 · 1 1 ½ 1 ·
2 Riemann, Fritz ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 · 1
3 Schwarz, Adolf 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 1 ·
4 Wemmers, Carl 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 · · ·
5 Minckwitz, Johannes 0 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 · 1
6 Paulsen, Wilfried · 0 1 0 ½ 1 · 1 ·
7 Bier, Martin 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ · ·
8 Schallopp, Emil 0 0 0 · 0 · ½ · 1
9 Fritz, Alexander ½ · 0 · 0 0 · · · ·
10 Franke, August Wilhelm 0 0 · · · · · 0 ·
11 Pitschel, Karl · 0 ·

Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player. · = game played but lost (not preserved in our source).