1884 1st Scottish Chess Championship

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1884 1st Scottish Chess Championship

Post by Gerard Killoran » Thu Aug 04, 2022 8:11 pm

John Saunders has put up some games from this tournament on Britbase, But here are a few extras:

In this one, Fraser failed to turn off automatic Queen promotion.



Is the following Endgame the worst ever played in a national championship? The newspaper claimed that after 8... Kf6, 9. Kg8 would draw! Perhaps the scoresheet was misread and 8... Kf8 was the move.



There was also a handicap tournament.





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