1898.12.01 Lasker Simul 25b, Birmingham (1898) (+16=8-1)
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The results given at https://www.emanuellasker.online/la... look suspiciously like the Manchester results.
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Mr. Lasker, the world's chess champion, visited Birmingham yesterday for the second time under the auspices of the Central Chess Club. A simultaneous display was the feature of the visit, and this began at 7 o'clock last evening at the Grand Hotel. Some twenty-five players sat down to face the champion, but the calibre of these, taken as a whole, was but slight. Of course, Mr. Lasker could not very well know this, and so would probably be accounted for the extreme caution which he displayed in his openings. Play was rather dull and slow, and was seldom enlivened by any of the jocular touches with which Mr. Blackburne, for instance, is in the habit of entertaining his audience. Eleven o'clock came and found quite half the games in the mid-game stage, and the spectators dispersed without any definite decision either way being come to with regard to some of the games. As far as could be made out, the only winner against Mr. Lasker was Mr. Joseph Moore of the Central C.C.
Source: <Birmingham Daily Mail>, 1898.12.02, p2

...the knight of the chess board played 25. Of this number he only lost one, and his proud victor in this contest was Mr. Joseph Moore. Unfortunately there was not time to finish all the games, and at the close the scoreres had to strike an average of probabilities and adjudge certain games draws. It was difficult to find what the actual result was; but the following gentlemen, possibily more, are held to have made a draw:—Messrs. C. W. Wilkins, R. Donald, F. H. Bill, O. H. Labone, F. J. Burgoyne, J. Savage, C. Reed, and J. Davison.
Source: <Birmingham Daily Gazette>, 1898.12.02, p5