Tournament Results
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| Date | Location | Place | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1862 | London International Tournament | 9= | Adolf Anderssen won; Blackburne shared last place. |
| 1867 | Dundee International Tournament | 5 | Behind Gustav Neumann, Wilhelm Steinitz, George Alcock MacDonnell and Cecil Valentine De Vere |
| 1869 | 2nd British Chess Championship | 1 | Beat De Vere in the final. |
| 1870 | Baden-Baden | 3= | Tied with Neumann; behind Adolf Anderssen and Steinitz; but ahead of Louis Paulsen, De Vere, Szymon Winawer, Samuel Rosenthal and Johannes von Minckwitz |
| 1872 | London | 2 | Behind Steinitz; ahead of Zukertort, MacDonnell and De Vere |
| 1873 | Vienna | 1= | Tied with Steinitz, who won both games of the playoff match This is where Blackburne was nicknamed "the Black Death". |
| 1876 | London | 1 | Ahead of Johannes Zukertort; Blackburne scored 10/11; this was just a month after Steinitz had whitewashed Blackburne 7-0 in a match. |
| 1878 | Paris | 3 | Behind Winawer and Zukertort |
| 1880 | Berlin | 1= | Tied with Berthold Englisch and Adolf Schwarz |
| 1881 | Berlin | 1 | 3 points ahead of Zukertort (2nd) |
| 1882 | Vienna | 6 | Behind Steinitz, Winawer, James Mason, Zukertort and George Henry Mackenzie |
| 1883 | London | 3 | Behind Zukertort and Steinitz; ahead of Mikhail Chigorin, Englisch, Mackenzie, Mason, Rosenthal, Winawer and Henry Edward Bird |
| 1885 | Hamburg | 2= | With Siegbert Tarrasch, Mason, Englisch and Max Weiss; behind Isidor Gunsberg; ahead of Mackenzie and 5 others. |
| 1887 | Frankfurt | 2= | With Weiss; behind Mackenzie; ahead of Curt von Bardeleben, Tarrasch and several others; Zukertort could only finish 14=. |
| 1889 | Breslau | 8= | With Mason; behind Tarrasch, Amos Burn, Jacques Mieses, von Bardeleben, Johann Bauer, Gunsberg, and Louis Paulsen. Ahead of Johann Berger, Emil Schallopp, Johannes Metger, Alexander Fritz, von Minckwitz, Semyon Alapin, Max Harmonist, Emanuel Schiffers and George H. D. Gossip. |
| 1889 | New York | 4 | Behind Chigorin, Weiss and Gunsberg; ahead of Burn and 15 others. This tournament was extremely strong, as it was designed to select a challenger for Steinitz' title. |
| 1890 | Manchester | 2 | Behind Tarrasch; ahead of Mackenzie, Bird and Mason |
| 1892 | Belfast International Tournament | 1= | equal first with Mason |
| 1894 | Leipzig | 4 | Behind Tarrasch, Paul Lipke and Richard Teichmann; ahead of Carl August Walbrodt, Dawid Janowski, Georg Marco, Mieses and Carl Schlechter |
| 1895 | Hastings | 10 | Behind Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Chigorin, Emanuel Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz, Emanuel Schiffers, von Bardeleben, Teichmann and Schlechter; ahead of Walbrodt, Burn, Janowski, Mason, Bird, Gunsberg, Adolf Albin, Marco, William Pollock, Mieses, Samuel Tinsley and Beniamino Vergani. |
| 1896 | Nuremberg | 11 | Behind Em. Lasker, Géza Maróczy, Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Janowski, Steinitz, Walbrodt, Schiffers and Chigorin; ahead of Rudolf Charousek, Marco, Albin, Winawer, Jackson Showalter, Moritz Porges, Schallopp and Teichmann. |
| 1897 | Berlin | 3 | Behind Charousek and Walbrodt; ahead of Janowski, Burn, Alapin, Marco, Schlechter, Caro, Chigorin, Schiffers, Metger, Winawer, Wilhelm Cohn, Hugo Suechting, Teichmann, Englisch, Adolf Zinkl, Albin and von Bardeleben. |
| 1898 | Vienna | 11 | Behind Tarrasch, Pillsbury, Janowski, Steinitz, Schlechter, Chigorin, Burn, Lipke, Maroczy and Simon Alapin; ahead of Schiffers, Marco, Showalter, Walbrodt, Halprin, Horatio Caro, David Graham Baird and Trenchard. |
| 1899 | London | 6 | Behind Em. Lasker, Janowski, Maroczy, Pillsbury and Schlechter; ahead of Chigorin, Showalter, Mason, W. Cohn, Steinitz, Lee, Bird, Tinsley and Teichmann (who withdrew after 4 games due to illness). Blackburne, as Black, beat Lasker; this was the first time a British player had defeated a reigning world champion. |
| 1904 | Hastings (British Championship) | 3 | |
| 1907 | (British Championship) | 2= | |
| 1910 | (British Championship) | 2= | |
| 1913 | (British Championship) | 3 | |
| 1914 | St. Petersburg | --- | Blackburne did not qualify for the 5-player final stage, in which the placings were: 1 Em. Lasker; 2 José Raúl Capablanca; 3 Alexander Alekhine; 4 Tarrasch; 5 Frank Marshall. At 3.5/10, Blackburne had the 4th-5th best score of the 6 players who did not qualify for the finals - behind Ossip Bernstein, Akiba Rubinstein, and Aron Nimzowitsch; tied with Janowski; and ahead of Gunsberg. Won a Special Brilliancy Prize for his win over Nimzowitsch. |
| 1914 | (British Championship) | 1= | Tied with Frederick Yates; this was Blackburne's last international tournament; he was 72. |
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