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Regarding Mucklow - I found several references to a fairly well known Mucklow of the period who lived in Oxford. I can't find anything which gives his full name. The Mucklow who entered the tournament, James Mucklow, definitely seems to have come from Manchester. This would be at least an interesti...

I wonder if E. S. Kennedy was a relative of Hugh Alexander Kennedy, who also took part in the tournament? As far as I know he wasn't. The games of the tournament are well known. Staunton published a tournament book in 1852, where all the games are enclosed (today also in the big databases like Ches...

My first post in this forum, therefore: Hi everybody :) I'm just writing a book about the first international tournament, London 1851, and tried to gather information on the participants. In 4 cases I couldn't find anything. A bit weird, because all of this guys were probably halfway experienced pla...