Todo: 1860-1869

Note: Incompletely know tourneys are now posted, tagged with ‘Incomplete’. Recent entries do not necessarily have entries here anymore, but instead contain a special section that describes known shortcomings.

Some tourneys from this period have already been published, but are not completely known and may benefit from additional information or research:

• Norddeutsche Schachbund, 1868 (1st Congress, Hamburg). Basic details and winning problem is known, but not the judges or the 2 and 3 pr. winners.

• Schachzeitung, 1866-67. It is not known if Section D (endgame studies) was concluded or not.

• Westdeutsche Schachbund, 1866. Announced, but probably never begun or completed.

Other tourneys are likely to require access to original sources:

• Belfast Weekly Whig, 1863. Not known. (This is probably the weekly edition of Northern Whig, publ. Saturdays. See notice in The Northern Whig on 1862-03-22, that the Weekly N. W. has set apart a column for chess. The contents of the column is frequently summarized in Northern Whig: on February 6, 1863, a notice on p. [2] says that tomorrow’s issue of Weekly Northern Whig will contain problem tourney-related information.)

• Brooklyn Standard, 1861. Only requirements known so far. (Brooklyn Standard seems to have been a weekly paper, while Brooklyn Daily Standard was a daily.)

• Svetozor, 1869. (mentioned in Neue Berliner Sz, v. 6, p. 163.) #3. Only open to Bohemian competitors. Judged by the competitors themselves.

• Wilke’s Spirit of the Times, 1868? Some requirements are known, but it is not clear if they only were suggestions, or if they were actually used for a tournament.