Illustrirte Zeitung, 1859
First task tourney?
Chess Monthly, 1857
US National tourney
Era, 1856
International tourney.
American Chess Association, 1858
A failed tourney?
Cooking A Columbus Egg
“Œuf à la Coque”
American Chess Association, 1857 (1st American Chess Congress)
International tourney
Chess Association, 1857 (Annual Meeting, Manchester)
English Problem Tournament¹, 1854?
Probable replacement for the failed 1852 tournament, but sources are scarce.
The Albion, 1855
Small informal tourney.
The Chess Divan in the Strand
This would later become Simpson’s divan