Tournament Results
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| Date | Location | Place | Score | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1851 | London International Tournament | 1 | 15/21 | Ahead of Marmaduke Wyvill, Elijah Williams, Howard Staunton, József Szén, Hugh Alexander Kennedy, Bernhard Horwitz, Henry Edward Bird, Lionel Kieseritzky, Carl Mayet, Johann Löwenthal, Edward Löwe, Alfred Brodie, James Mucklow, Samuel Newham, and E.S. Kennedy. A knock-out tournament in which the contestants played mini-matches in each round, increasing from best-of-3 in the 1st round to best-of 8 in the final. Anderssen himself beat Kieseritzky, Szen, Staunton and Wyvill – his closest mini-match was +4−2=1 in the final against Wyvill. |
| 1851 | London Chess Club Tournament | 1 | 7½/8 | Ahead of Karl Meyerhofer, Daniel Harrwitz, Frederic Deacon, Kieseritzky, Horwitz, Szabo, Löwe, and Ehrmann. Apparently intended to be round-robin, but the weaker players quickly dropped out. |
| 1857 | Manchester (British Chess Association) | - | 1/2 | 8-player knock-out tournament in which the contestants played just 1 game in each round. Anderssen beat Harrwitz in the 1st round, and lost to Löwenthal in the 2nd round. Löwenthal drew the final against Samuel Boden, then Boden retired. |
| 1862 | London International Tournament | 1 | 12/13 | Ahead of Louis Paulsen, (11/13), Rev. Owen (10/13), George Alcock MacDonnell, Serafino Dubois, Wilhelm Steinitz and 8 others. One of the first successful round-robin tournaments. |
| 1868 | Aachen (West German Chess Federation) | 1= | 3/4 then 0/1 |
Anderssen and Max Lange tied for 1st; the order after the playoff was (1) Lange, (2) Anderssen; all finished ahead of Wilfried Paulsen, Johannes Zukertort, and Emil Schallopp. |
| 1869 | Hamburg (North German Chess Federation) | 1= | 4/5 then 1½/2 |
Anderssen and Louis Paulsen tied for 1st; the order after the playoff was (1) Anderssen, (2) Paulsen; all finished ahead of Zukertort, Johannes von Minckwitz, Schallopp, and Alexander Alexander. |
| 1869 | Barmen (West German Chess Federation) | 1 | 5/5 | Ahead of Zukertort, von Minckwitz, Schallopp and Wilfried Paulsen and Richard Hein. |
| 1870 | Baden-Baden International Tournament | 1 | 11/18 | Ahead of Steinitz, Gustav Neumann, Joseph Henry Blackburne, Louis Paulsen, Cecil Valentine De Vere, Szymon Winawer, Samuel Rosenthal, von Minckwitz and Adolf Stern. |
| 1871 | Krefeld (West German Chess Federation) | 1= | 4/5 then 1/2 |
Anderssen, von Minckwitz, and Louis Paulsen tied for 1st; the order after the playoff was (1) Paulsen, (2) Anderssen, (3) Minckwitz; all finished ahead of Karl Pitschel, Carl Göring, and Wilfried Paulsen. |
| 1871 | Leipzig (Central German Chess Federation) | 1= | 4½/5 then 1/1 | Anderssen and Samuel Mieses tied for 1st; then Anderssen won a playoff game. |
| 1872 | Altona (North German Chess Federation) | 1 | 3½/4 | Ahead of Neumann, Göring, Schallopp and Pitschel. |
| 1873 | Vienna International Tournament | 3 | 8½/11: 19/30 | Behind Steinitz (10/11: 22½/25) and Blackburne; ahead of Rosenthal (7½/11: 17/28), Louis Paulsen, Henry Edward Bird, Max Fleissig, Josef Heral, Philipp Meitner, Oscar Gelbfuhs, Adolf Schwarz and Pitschel. This tournament had a very unusual scoring system: each player played a 3-game mini-match with each of the others and scored 1 for a won mini-match and ½ for a drawn mini-match. The numbers before the colons (:) are the points awarded; the other 2 numbers are the usual "games won / games played" scoring. |
| 1876 | Leipzig (Central German Chess Federation) | 1= | 3½/5 then 2/2 | Anderssen, Goering and Pitschel tied for 1st; the order after the playoff was (1) Anderssen, (2=) Goering and Pitschel; all finished ahead of Louis Paulsen, Schallopp and Carl Berber. |
| 1877 | Leipzig (Central German Chess Federation) | 2= | 8½/11 | Behind Louis Paulsen (9/11); tied with Zukertort (8½/11); ahead of Winawer (7½/11), Goering, Berthold Englisch, Schallopp and 5 others. This tournament was specially arranged to honour the 50th anniversary of Anderssen's learning the chess moves. |
| 1878 | Frankfurt (West German Chess Federation) | 3 | 6/9 | Behind Louis Paulsen (8/9) and Adolf Schwarz (6½/9); ahead of von Minckwitz (5/9), Wilfried Paulsen (4½/9) and 5 others. |
| 1878 | Paris International Tournament | 6 | 12½/22 | Anderssen was in poor health. The event was won by Winawer and Zukertort. |
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