Editing Wilhelm Steinitz (section)

===Tournament results===
Sources:<ref name="ScoresRomanticEra" /><ref name="WallProfileSteinitz" />{{Unreliable source?|failed=y|date=December 2013}}<ref name="endgameNLWorldExhibitions">{{cite web | url=http://www.endgame.nl/wfairs.htm | title=World Exhibitions | access-date=2008-11-19 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619170844/http://www.endgame.nl/wfairs.htm | archive-date=2008-06-19 }}</ref><ref name="sympatico19thCentMatchesTournaments">{{cite web | url=http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/19thcent.htm | title=Major Chess Matches and Tournaments of the 19th century | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221345/http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/19thcent.htm | archive-date=2007-09-26 }}</ref><ref name="storiascacchiTorneiAl1879">{{cite web | url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/itorneifino1880.htm | title=I tornei di scacchi fino al 1879 | access-date=2008-11-19 | archive-date=2008-12-16 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216145235/http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/itorneifino1880.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="storiascacchiTorneiAl1880To1899">{{cite web | url=http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/itornei1880-99.htm | title=I tornei di scacchi dal 1880 al 1899 | access-date=2008-11-19 | archive-date=2008-12-16 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216145230/http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/pagine/itornei1880-99.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref>

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! Date !! Location !! Place !! Score !! class="unsortable"|Notes
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| 1859 || align=left| [[Vienna]] chess society || 3rd || ? || align=left | Behind [[Carl Hamppe]] and [[Eduard Jenay]].
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| 1860 || align=left| Vienna chess society || 2nd || ? || align=left | Hamppe won.
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| 1861 || align=left| Vienna chess society || 3rd || ? || align=left | Behind Hamppe and [[Daniel Harrwitz]].
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| 1862 || align=left| Vienna chess society || 1st || 30/31 || align=left | &nbsp;
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| [[London 1862 chess tournament|1862]] || align=left| London International Tournament || 6th || 8/13 || align=left | Behind [[Adolf Anderssen]], [[Louis Paulsen]], [[John Owen (chess player)|John Owen]], [[George Alcock MacDonnell]] and [[Serafino Dubois]].<br />Draws were not scored in this tournament. Steinitz was awarded the brilliancy prize for his win over [[Augustus Mongredien]].
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| 1862 || align=left| London championship || 1st || 7/7 || align=left | &nbsp;
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| 1865 || align=left| [[Dublin]] || 1st–2nd || 3½/4 || align=left | Won play-off after tie with G. A. MacDonnell.
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| 1866 || align=left| London handicap tournament|| 1st || 8/9 || align=left | Steinitz won against [[Cecil Valentine De Vere]] (2–1), MacDonnell (2–0), Mocatta (2–0) – Steinitz gave odds of pawn and move, and in the final S. Green (2–0) – Steinitz gave odds of pawn and two moves.
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| 1867 || align=left| [[Dundee]] handicap tournament|| 1st–2nd || 3/3 || align=left | Tied with J.C. Fraser. Steinitz won against MacDonnell (1–0), Keating (1–0) – Steinitz gave odds of a knight, and Scott (1–0) – Steinitz gave odds of a knight.
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| 1867 || align=left| Dundee || 2nd || 7/9 || align=left | Behind Neumann (7½/9); ahead of MacDonnell, De Vere, [[Joseph Henry Blackburne]], Robertson, J.C. Fraser, G.B. Fraser, Hamel and Spens.
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| [[Paris 1867 chess tournament|1867]] || align=left| Paris || 3rd || +18−3=3 || align=left | Draws counted as zero; third behind [[Ignác Kolisch|Ignaz von Kolisch]] (+20−2=2) and [[Szymon Winawer]] (+19−4=1); ahead of [[Gustav Neumann]], De Vere, [[Jules Arnous de Rivière]], [[Hieronim Czarnowski]], [[Celso Golmayo Zúpide]], [[Samuel Rosenthal]], [[Sam Loyd]], D'Andre, [[Martin Severin From]], and [[Eugène Rousseau (chess player)|Eugène Rousseau]].
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| [[Baden-Baden 1870 chess tournament|1870]] || align=left| [[Baden-Baden]] || 2nd || 12½/18 || align=left | Behind Anderssen (13/18); ahead of Neumann, Blackburne, Louis Paulsen, De Vere, [[Szymon Winawer]], Rosenthal and [[Johannes von Minckwitz]].
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| 1872 || align=left| London || 1st || 7½/8 || align=left | Ahead of Blackburne (5/8), [[Johannes Zukertort]], MacDonnell and De Vere.
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| [[Vienna 1873 chess tournament|1873]] || align=left| Vienna || 1st–2nd || 10/11: 20½/25 || align=left | Tied with Blackburne (10/11: 22½/30) and won the play-off 2–0; ahead of Anderssen (8½/11: 19/30), Rosenthal (7½/11: 17/28), Louis Paulsen, [[Henry Edward Bird]], Heral, [[Max Fleissig]], [[Philipp Meitner]], [[Adolf Schwarz]], [[Oscar Gelbfuhs]] and [[Karl Pitschel]].<br / >This tournament had a very unusual scoring system: each player played a 3-game mini-match with each of the others and scored 1 for a won mini-match and ½ for a drawn mini-match. Steinitz won his last 14 games and therefore completed his mini-matches by playing fewer games than anyone else. The numbers before the colons (:) are the points awarded; the other 2 numbers are the usual "games won / games played" scoring.
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| [[Vienna 1882 chess tournament|1882]] || align=left| Vienna || 1st–2nd || 24/34 || align=left | Tied with Winawer and drew the play-off; ahead of Mason (23/34), Zukertort (22½/34), Mackenzie, Blackburne, [[Berthold Englisch]], Paulsen and others including [[Mikhail Chigorin]] and Bird.
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| 1883 || align=left| London || 2nd || 19/26 || align=left | Behind Zukertort (22/26); ahead of Blackburne (16½/24), Chigorin 16/24, Englisch (15½/24), Mackenzie (15½/24), Mason (15½/24), Rosenthal, Winawer, Bird and four others.
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| 1894 || align=left| New York City championship || 1st || 8½/10 || align=left | After losing the world title to Emanuel Lasker.
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| [[Hastings 1895 chess tournament|1895]] || align=left| [[Hastings]] || 5th || 13/21 || align=left | Behind [[Harry Nelson Pillsbury]] (16½/21), Chigorin (16/21), [[Emanuel Lasker]] (15½/21), [[Siegbert Tarrasch]] (14/21); ahead of [[Emanuel Schiffers]] (12/21), [[Curt von Bardeleben]] (11½/21), [[Richard Teichmann]] (11½/21), [[Carl Schlechter]] (11/21), Blackburne (10½/21), [[Carl August Walbrodt]], [[Amos Burn]], [[Dawid Janowski]], Mason, Bird, [[Isidore Gunsberg]], [[Adolf Albin]], [[Georg Marco]], [[William Pollock (chess player)|William Pollock]], [[Jacques Mieses]], [[Samuel Tinsley]] and [[Beniamino Vergani]].
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| 1895–96|| align=left| [[Saint Petersburg]] || 2nd || 9½/18 || align=left | Behind Emanuel Lasker (11½/18); ahead of Pillsbury (8/18) and Chigorin (7/18). The world's top 4 players played 6 games against each of the others.
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| [[Nuremberg 1896 chess tournament|1896]] || align=left| [[Nuremberg]] || 6th || 11/18 || align=left | Behind Emanuel Lasker 13½/18, [[Géza Maróczy]] (12½/18), Pillsbury (12/18), Tarrasch (12/18), Janowski (11½/18); ahead of Walbrodt, Schiffers, Chigorin, Blackburne, [[Rudolf Charousek]], Marco, Albin, Winawer, [[Jackson Showalter]], [[Moritz Porges]], [[Emil Schallopp]] and Teichmann.
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| 1897 || align=left| New York || 1st–2nd || 2½/4 || align=left | A ''triangular'' "Thousand Islands" tournament; tied with [[S. Lipschütz]] and ahead of [[William Ewart Napier]].
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| [[Vienna 1898 chess tournament|1898]] || align=left| Vienna || 4th || 23½/36 || align=left | Behind Tarrasch (27½/36), Pillsbury (27½/36), Janowski (25½/36); ahead of Schlechter, Chigorin, Burn, [[Paul Lipke]], Maroczy, [[Simon Alapin]], Blackburne, Schiffers, Marco, Showalter, Walbrodt, [[Alexander Halprin]], [[Horatio Caro]], [[David Graham Baird]] and Herbert William Trenchard.
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| 1898 || align=left| [[Cologne]] || 5th || 9½/15 || align=left | Behind Burn, Charousek, Chigorin and [[Wilhelm Cohn]]; ahead of Schlechter, Showalter, [[Johann Berger]], Janowski and Schiffers.
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| 1899 || align=left| London || 10–11th || 11½/27 || align=left | Behind Emanuel Lasker (23½/27), Janowski (19/27), Maróczy (19/27), Pillsbury (19/27), Schlechter (18/27), Blackburne (16½/27), Chigorin (16/27), Showalter (13½/27), Mason (13/27). This was the first time he had not won any prize money since 1859.
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