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XIII, p. 349). The reason is somewhat unclear, but seems to have been related to concerns over the fairly large contributor's fee (one guinea, which would have a buying power of approx. 50 pounds today), which may have dissuaded participation (despite the stated participation as above), as well as there were few or no competitors from abroad. In same issue of Chess Player's
Chronicle where the cancellation is finally announced (vol II (new series), p. 322 (1854)), it is reported that an second tournament had been started and finished -- though no additional evidence for this is cited or has been found. This is the tourney that Grimshaw wins ... and from which the cited problem is taken.
285:) but it was not a solving tourney but a problem composition tourney, most probably the first ever composition tourney. Indeed, Grimshaw won this tourney. There are some reports about it, e.g. The Illustrated London News, 26 August 1854 (Staunton's chess column), The Chess Player's Chronicle, 15 (1854), p. 322, and later The Illustrated London News, 4 June 1881 (chess column by Duffy), finally Tim Harding: Eminent Victorian Chessplayers. McFarland, Jefferson 2012, p. 362. None of these sources mention a solving tourney.--
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We can add that the problem composition tourney announced and begun in 1852 was cancelled in 1854, despite 'many of the most eminent chess problem composers in the country' were said to take part, after adjudication had been announced to be postponed already in 1852 (Chess Player's
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Patrick Thomas Duffy in the chess column of the Illustrated London News, 4 June 1887, see also Grimshaw's necrologue in British Chess Magazine 1891, see also Staunton in Illustrated London News, 26. August 1854. All these reports don't tell much, neither about the
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