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The Chess
Player’s Magazine of 1865, page 251, gave details of the Sheffield
Athenaeum Chess Club’s club tournament, as follows:
SHEFFIELD
ATHENAEUM CHESS CLUB.-The tournament in connection with this society has
recently terminated. It was played upon the handicap principle.
Four-and-twenty competitors entered the lists. A handsome prize,
consisting of an ivory set of Staunton Chessmen, presented by the president
of the club, George S. Taylor, Esq., was won by Mr. Moet, an amateur of
considerable ability. The following is the exact score of the various
rounds:-
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FIRST ROUND
Mr. Askham
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2
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Mr. J. W. Cockayne
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0
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Mr. E. Cockayne
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2
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Mr. Anderson
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0
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Mr. Fawcett
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2
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Mr. Edwards
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1
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Mr. Hutchinson
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2
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Mr. Shallcross
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1
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Mr. Herbert
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2
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Mr. Jackson
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0
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Mr. Davy
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2
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Mr. B. Cockayne
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0
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Mr. Cocking
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2
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Mr. S Smith
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0
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Mr. Shaw
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2
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Mr. Greening
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0
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Mr. W. Cockayne
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2
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Mr. Brownhill
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0
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Mr. Bennett
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2
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Mr. Siddall
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0
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Mr. Moet
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2
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Mr. J. Barlow
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1
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Mr. Champion
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2
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Mr. Roddwig
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0
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SECOND ROUND
Mr. Davy
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2
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-
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Mr. Cocking
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0
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-
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Mr. Bennett
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2
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-
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Mr. Champion
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1
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-
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Mr. Shaw
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2
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-
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Mr. Herbert
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1
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1
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Mr. W. Cockayne
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1
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-
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Mr. Askham
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0
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-
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Mr. Hutchinson
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1
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-
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Mr. Fawcett
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0
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-
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Mr. Moet
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2
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-
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Mr. E. Cockayne
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0
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-
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THIRD ROUND
Mr. Moet
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2
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-
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Mr. Shaw
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0
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1
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Mr. Bennett
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2
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-
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Mr. Hutchinson
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0
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-
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Mr. Davy
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0
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-
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FOURTH ROUND
Mr. Moet
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2
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-
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Mr. Davy
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0
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1
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Mr. Moet
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2
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-
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Mr. Bennett
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-
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3
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Mr. Moet won 8 games, lost 2, drawn [sic] 4.
The CPM continued:
It is
satisfactory to perceive the spirit and enthusiasm with which the members
of this club conduct their affairs. We are happy to know that this
tournament, which has been in progress several months, has been the means
of promoting far greater attention to the game in the neighbourhood
of Sheffield than has been manifested for many seasons past.
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It would appear William
Cockayne, junior, withdrew after two rounds.
The identities of
the twenty-four players, in the opinion of the writer: are as follows:
* not sometime Athenaeum member Joseph Louis
Meöt de Montmusard, who died 05/08/1859.
Some surnames are
so common, and initials so frequently omitted from records, that a number of
Athenaeum club members are unidentifiable. J. W. Cockayne paid a
subscription to the club in 1864, and was a cousin of the three brothers
William, Edward and Bagshaw.
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