Hugh Alexander Kennedy

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Hugh Alexander Kennedy, ca.1860

Hugh Alexander Kennedy ( 1809 - October 22, 1878 ) was a British chess master .

Kennedy was a former Army Captain and a leading London chess player. In 1844 he lost a game against Howard Staunton (3: 8). In 1845 he played on the team with Staunton in Portsmouth in two telegraph games (one lost and one draw) against a team of Henry Thomas Buckle , George Walker , William Davies Evans , Perigal and Tuckett in London. He lost two games to Elijah Williams in 1846 and to Edward Löwe in 1849, both in London.

Hugh Alexander Kennedy played in the great London international chess tournament of 1851 and finished sixth there. He defeated Carl Mayet in round 1 with two wins. In round two he lost to Marmaduke Wyvill . In round three he defeated James Mucklow with four wins, and finally lost to József Szén .

In 1862 he lost what was perhaps the first international telegraph game against Serafino Dubois .

literature

  • Mario Ziegler: The Chess Tournament London 1851 . ChessCoach, St. Ingbert 2013. ISBN 978-3-944158-00-6 , pp. 74-77

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edo Ratings, Kennedy, HA
  2. ↑ Jeremy P. Spinrad: The Telegraph, the Velocipede, and the Bristol Sloth ( Memento of February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The Kibitzer
  4. ↑ matches fino 1849
  5. ↑ World Chess Championship: 1851 London Tournament
  6. ↑ http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=10333
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Hugh Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 1809
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1878