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253:, Gunsberg's best single performance was his 1887 match against Blackburne, where he scored 8 of 13 possible points (62%). Also, Gunsberg's performance in the world championship match against Steinitz indicated he was a part of the world elite in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, in the year he qualified for the match against Steinitz, 1889, Gunsberg played in three different international tournaments: Amsterdam, the German Chess Congress, and the US Chess Congress. At Amsterdam, he finished in 5th place out of 9 competitors with an exact 50% score, 4/8, behind Burn, a young 44: 269:. Finally, at the US Chess Congress, his best result, and the reason he was allowed to challenge Steinitz, he finished in lone 3rd place out of 20 competitors, with a +19 score, 28½/38, behind 181:
In the late 1880s and early 1890s Gunsberg was one of the top players in the world. He decisively won a national tournament in London in July 1885, and a few weeks later won the 4th
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Tim Harding: Eminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies, 278–314.o. McFarland, 2012.
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accepted a submission that in chess matters, eight oversights did not make a "blunder".
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Gunsberg began his career as the player operating the remote-controlled chess automaton
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and Gunsberg lost with four wins, six losses, and nine draws.
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for libel when they said that his chess column contained "
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in the London tournament. In 1890 he drew a match with
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Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United Kingdom
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