The Minor Tournament
There was a second section in the tournament, which was won by Frank James Marshall with 8.5 out of 11. Georg Marco and Jacques Mieses were the most experienced opponents. The results and standings:
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# Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total 1 Frank Marshall (United States) / New York x ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 8.5 2-3 Georg Marco (Austria-Hungary) / Romania ½ x ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 8.0 2-3 Thomas Physick (United Kingdom) / England 1 ½ x ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 8.0 4-5 Edward Owen Jones (United Kingdom) / England 0 ½ ½ x 1 0 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 7.5 4-5 Jacques Mieses (German Empire) / Saxony ½ ½ ½ 0 x 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7.5 6-7 Edward Mackenzie Jackson (United Kingdom) / England 0 0 ½ 1 1 x 0 0 1 1 0 1 5.5 6-7 Stephen Francis Smith (Canada) / Ontario 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 x 0 1 1 1 1 5.5 8 Oscar Conrad Müller (United Kingdom) / Germany ? ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 x 0 1 0 1 5.0 9-10 Vasily Tabunshchikov (Russian Empire) / Russia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 x ½ 1 1 3.5 9-10 Johannes Esser (Netherlands) / South Holland 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ x 0 0 3.5 11 John Angus Erskine (Australia) / New Zealand 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 x 1 3.0 12 J. Klimsch (German Empire) ? / Germany ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 x 0.0
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