[Event "2nd Belfast-Dublin Telegraph Match 1863"]
[Site "corr"]
[Date "1863.01.29"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Scott, H."]
[Black "Hunt, R. F."]
[Result "*"]
[Board "A"]
[WhiteTeam "Belfast"]
[BlackTeam "Dublin"]
[PlyCount "4"]
[ECO "C41"]
[Opening "Philidor's defence"]
[Venue "British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company offices: Donegall St., Belfast and College Green, Dublin"]
[EventDate "1863.01.29"]
[EventType "team"]
[Source "Ulster Chess History web site"]
[URL "https://www.irlchess.com/games_archive/sundry_files_2017-07/scott-hunt-2ndbelfast-dublin-1863.htm"]
[LastModified "Fri Mar 22 14:31:54 2024"]

{ Source: David McAlister, <a
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030506072155/http://www.rct26.dial.pipex.com:80/1860s_telegraph_%20matches.htm">Belfast
- Dublin Telegraph Matches 1861-1863</a>, Ulster Chess History web site,
2000 (via the Wayback Machine). }

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 { ' "The attack was well kept up for forty moves by the
first player, and the game was left to be finished by correspondence, at
three o'clock a.m. There are some beautiful positions in this game, which,
as it now remains, seems rather in favour of the Belfast player." - Weekly
Northern Whig, 31st January 1863.' } *