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EVENTS · OCTOBER 18, 2026

Historical tournaments and game collections

Historical events add preserved games, original tables and clear accounts of the surviving record.

Oleg Romanishin — IBM Chess Tournament 1978, 1978-07-13
Photo: Suyk, Koen / Anefo · CC0 1.0 · Photo details

Auckland’s second Asian Team Championship preserves all 169 played games. Its official team standings retain eleven default points, with the Philippines winning all nine matches. The contemporary report explains the change from a planned Swiss to a ten-team round robin.

Bar 1977 adds all 91 pairings, with Božidar Ivanović winning on 9½/13. Costa Catalana 1977 adds all 45 games from the renamed Costa Brava tournament, won unbeaten by Oleg Romanishin. Santos Lugares adds all 66 pairings, the original published order and eleven source-supported Raimundo García identity corrections. Its exact playing dates remain unknown.

Lublin 1977 adds all 91 pairing records, including four one-move fragments, and the contemporary standings headed by Savon and Panchenko. Berkeley’s fourth People’s tournament adds 53 scores and all 39 published Master/Expert totals. Both pages explain conflicts between printed results and preserved game records; Berkeley’s full played-game count remains unknown.

Cochrane’s Calcutta collection for 1859 adds six recorded encounters, including two dated manuscript scores. Belfast 1886 adds twelve preserved records and the full contemporary table: Pollock won all eight games, while Barnett took the Irish title. Twenty-four other Belfast pairings lack scores in the approved archives; a two-move record is retained with its endpoint uncertainty explained.

The Bavarian masters at Nuremberg and the Augustea jubilee at Leipzig add 45 preserved records from 1888. Their contemporary tables supply the complete main-event standings and identify fourteen missing scores. Leipzig also retains its short drawn first-place playoff, with its uncertain endpoint and source-date discrepancy explained; a printed result error is reconciled against the original game.

Three London collections add 44 preserved scores: Staunton–Horwitz games from 1851, chiefly consultation games from 1856, and the complete Black and White masters’ tournament of 1893. Original reports support one winner correction and one consultation-team label correction without changing any moves. The earlier collections explain their missing published scores and unknown annual totals; Blackburne’s 1893 victory has all fifteen played games and its original final table.

Shrewsbury’s 1906 British Championship adds fifty preserved records and its original final standings, with short opening fragments retained and sixteen missing scores identified. Maróczy’s six individual Philadelphia exhibitions add the separate Franklin series, including a primary-backed identification of D. Stuart Robinson. Original publication differences are explained while all approved moves and historical game URLs remain intact.

Hamburg’s 1910 Hauptturnier A adds forty-one scores, including four annulled Gladig games preserved outside the final standings. Its withdrawal evidence distinguishes sixty proved missing scores from eight uncertain Gregory pairings. Plzeň’s 1911 Czech Championship adds sixteen scores and the original standings, separating nine missing played games from three unplayed defaults and explaining Bartoň’s printed total error.

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