Match Results
Here are Blackburne's results in matches:
- Under Score, + games won, = games drawn, − games lost
| Date | Opponent | Result | Location | Score | Notes
1862-3 Dec.-Jan. London, Steinitz-Blackburne +7 =2 -1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1862-63 | Wilhelm Steinitz | Lost | London | 2/10 | +1=2-7 | Only 2 years after Blackburne started playing chess. |
| 1876 | Wilhelm Steinitz | Lost | London | 0/7 | +0=0-7 | |
| 1881 | Johannes Zukertort | Lost | London | 4½/14 | +2=5−7 | |
| 1881 | Isidor Gunsberg | Won | Düsseldorf | 8½/14 | +7-4=3 | |
| 1887 | Zukertort | Won | London | 9½/5½ | +5-1=7 | Zukertort's health and play declined rapidly after he lost the 1886 World Championship match to Steinitz. |
| 1887 | Gunsberg | Lost | Düsseldorf | ½/5 | +0=1−4 | In 1890 Gunsberg gave Steinitz a good fight in a world title match (Steinitz won by +6=9-4). |
| 1891 | Celso Golmayo Zúpide | Won | Havana | 6/10 | +5=2−3 | |
| 1891 | Vasquez | Won | Havana | 5½/6 | +5=1−0 | |
| 1892 | Emanuel Lasker | Lost | ?? | 2/10 | +0-6=4 | |
| 1895 | Curt von Bardeleben | Drew | London | 4½/9 | +3=3−3 |
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