Kentish Mercury, 1898

The announcement offered 10 prizes. In the report, two further main prizes and one special prize were added.

The column editor noted that the tournament should not be considered as a strictly formal tourney with sealed envelopes, as he expected to recognize the handwriting and other indications of the identities of many of the competitors.

Eighty-seven problems were received. Problems without unique mottoes were numbered (I, II, and III, as required). Sixty-seven problems were published, the last of which was published a few weeks after the awards had been published. The report identified five of these as faulty. The report did not include problems 61, 63, and 64 in the list of published problems, but according to their mottoes they were published as expected (the motto of prb. 61 is not quoted in full in the report).

Of the actually published and correct problems, thirty-five were selected by the column editor and given to the judge for adjudication. The judge excluded three of them from competition due to strong similarities with previously published problems. Adjudication was by a score-based method, as the 12 prize problems were cited as being between 100 and 77 points, and the problems given honorary mention between 76 and 67 points. (Although the hm. were printed in order by falling score, there is no indication that they were ranked explicitly.) The score for the special prize problem was not published.

The detailed reports of the first five individual prizes were published in the Kentish Mercury (see above). The remaining prize problems (i.e. 6th to 12th prize) were not identified further than the name of the composer: there were no references to mottoes, tourney problem numbers or column problem numbers. Some of them can be identified indirectly by being the only (or only remaining) problem by that composer in the competition. The 6th pr. problem can probably be identified from its republication in British Chess Magazine. The 10th pr. problem remains unidentified: it is either prb. 1030 (tourney prb. 14, Compare) or prb. 1076 (tourney prb. 56, Simple).