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🏆 2nd WSB Congress, Dusseldorf (1862)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Max Lange, Hermann von Hanneken, Wilfried Paulsen, Georg Schultz, Otto Wuelfing, Richard Lichtenscheidt, Friedrich Hipp, Johannes Kohtz

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2nd WSB Congress, Dusseldorf (1862)

Dusseldorf, Germany, Prussian Empire (Sep 1862) 

                  1 6 4 2 3 5 7 8  Wins Place
——————————————————————————————————————————————
1 Lange           • 1 1 × × 1 1 1   5   1st
6 Wülfing         0 • 1 1 0 0 × ×   2   2nd
4 Schultz         0 0 • × 0 1 1 ×   2   3rd
2 Hipp            × 0 × • 1 × 1 ×   2
3 W Paulsen       × 1 1 0 • × × ×   2
5 von Hanneken    0 1 0 × × • ½ ½   1
7 Lichtenscheidt  0 × 0 0 × ½ • 1   1
8 Kohtz           0 × × × × ½ 0 •   0 
——————————————————————————————————————————————
× denotes an unplayed game with no result.

Introduction
Immediately after the end of the business session, the tournament matches, which had begun on the morning of the first day, resumed and continued late into the night. Eight participants were admitted to the main tournament, and the initial draw resulted in the following pairs: 1. Oberst v. Hanneken from Wesel against Georg Schultz from Hanover. 2. Hipp against Lichtenscheidt from Crefeld. 3. M. Lange against J. Kohtz from Cologne. 4. W. Paulsen against O. Wülfing from Elberfeld. This pairing served only to regulate the first encounter; otherwise, it was determined that each competitor would play a decisive game with each other, and that the majority of the games won would be decisive. Mr. Louis Paulsen declined to participate in the tournament on the grounds that he had to give a performance of his world-famous art the following day and therefore wanted to avoid the exertion of serious combat. However, the two-day duration of the congress was hardly sufficient to fully carry out all the planned chess actions. (1)

Summary
Lange, Wülfing and Schultz had each played five games and were awarded the prizes. Lange took first place for winning all five games that he played. Wülfing and Schultz each had two wins, but as Wülfing had beaten Schultz he was awarded the second prize with Schultz receiving the last prize.

Prizes
Several participants in the main tournament, notably Mr. W. Paulsen, had to leave before they had completed all their games, and the prize distribution could therefore only be made on a relative basis, in proportion to the number of games actually completed. Accordingly, the first prize had to be awarded to M. Lange, who had won five games and lost none; the second prize went to O. Wülfing, and an runner-up prize was also awarded to Mr. G. Schultz. Taking this circumstance into account, M. Lange, as a committee member and the next most eligible prize winner, proposed that the prize originally intended for the first winner be withdrawn and awarded as an honorary prize to Mr. Louis Paulsen, in grateful recognition for his services to the Congress, particularly through his brilliant performance in blindfold play. This prize, a gift from the painter Balduin Wolff, consists of a valuable oil painting; it is a landscape with architecture, lovingly executed in the artist's well-known fine style, which is distinguished by several ingenious chess allusions and is entitled "The Chess Players' Inn." In exchange for this prize, two equally successful works of art were designated, which were generously placed at the Congress's disposal by two well-known Düsseldorf artists, Professors Schotel and G. Süs. These are two valuable watercolors composed especially for the Chess Congress: the first a marine painting full of highly poetic coloring, the other a very delightful chess humorous painting in the Hogarthian style, depicting two monkeys playing chess. The second prize winner, O. Wülfing, received a large ivory chess set with an elegant, gold-decorated leather board. The runner-up prize consisted of a small, finely crafted ivory chess set and, as already mentioned, was awarded to Mr. G. Schultz from Hanover. (1)

Source
(1) Schachzeitung, v17 n10/11, October/November 1862, pp296-297

 page 1 of 1; 17 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. O Wuelfing vs von Hanneken  0-14118622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC62 Ruy Lopez, Old Steinitz Defense
2. G Schultz vs von Hanneken 1-03318622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC50 Giuoco Piano
3. G Schultz vs M Lange 0-11718622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC45 Scotch Game
4. R Lichtenscheidt vs von Hanneken ½-½6518622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfA00 Uncommon Opening
5. R Lichtenscheidt vs M Lange  0-13318622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC50 Giuoco Piano
6. von Hanneken vs J Kohtz  ½-½6818622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC55 Two Knights Defense
7. R Lichtenscheidt vs J Kohtz 1-04018622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfA00 Uncommon Opening
8. O Wuelfing vs F Hipp 0-12518622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC01 French, Exchange
9. von Hanneken vs M Lange 0-12818622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC38 King's Gambit Accepted
10. O Wuelfing vs M Lange  0-14518622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
11. O Wuelfing vs J Kohtz 1-01718622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC70 Ruy Lopez
12. W Paulsen vs O Wuelfing 1-02318622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC01 French, Exchange
13. W Paulsen vs G Schultz 1-02118622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC50 Giuoco Piano
14. G Schultz vs R Lichtenscheidt  1-05018622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC51 Evans Gambit
15. F Hipp vs R Lichtenscheidt 1-02218622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC52 Evans Gambit
16. O Wuelfing vs G Schultz  1-04518622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC33 King's Gambit Accepted
17. J Kohtz vs M Lange 0-11918622nd WSB Congress, DusseldorfC50 Giuoco Piano
 page 1 of 1; 17 games  PGN Download 
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