Detroit Free Press, 1880 (5th Tourney)

The first announcement noted that C. Kockelkorn had been asked to act as umpire. He declined, and Carpenter accepted the task instead.

The lists of mottos received contained 88 different mottos (including Daisy three times, as three different composers used that motto, and counting the musical mottos as separate mottos.)

100 problems were published prior to judgement. 17 were found to be unsound, and another 4 to be ineligible due to use of castling, use of en passant capture as key move, as well as one problem having been published prior to publication in the tourney, and one problem being identical with a problem published years ago by the judge. (The en passant problem appears to have been correct in that it could be shown that e.p. was a legal move, but the judge objected to it as he thought it created two problems in one.)


Nineteen of E. Pradignat's entries had mottos in the form of a single music bar, with a G clef followed by a single note of different pitch and duration. These caused the judge some problems to identify: he reported them as 'musical motto'.

The chess editor of Detroit Free Press, T. P. Bull, also participated in the competition with a problem (prb. 16, motto: America has no Queen but her 'Queen of Chess', and dedicated to Mrs. Gilbert).