Concluding the 1834 World Chess Championship!

This is the final video in this epic series on the 1834 unofficial world chess championship match between Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell.

La Bourdonnais has left for France on urgent business, and the gentlemen of the Westminster Chess Club have been left to ponder on the cataclysmic chess event that has just happened.

Mr William Greenwood Walker has recorded the games.
Mr Lewis will publish some of them.
Mr George Walker will get involved in more ways than one.
McDonnell isn't feeling well in the kidneys.
La Bourdonnais, and the chess world, will never be the same again.

Exactly why did McDonnell only play white three times in the last match?
What happened to the missing games?

Watch this video to find out!

Great research on what exactly went on during the sixth match, by Nick Pope, can be found here.
The second link contains the computer comparison mentioned in the video:
http://www.chessarch.com/archive/1834_La_Bourdonnais-Macdonnell_Matches/6.1-Free_Points_Theory/index7.shtml
http://www.chessarch.com/archive/1834_La_Bourdonnais-Macdonnell_Matches/6.2-Five_to_Four_Score/index8.shtml
http://www.chessarch.com/archive/1834_La_Bourdonnais-Macdonnell_Matches/6.3-Missing_Games/index9.shtml

Some more on Mr Lewis:
http://www.billwallchess.com/articles/Lewis.htm

A Selection of Games at Chess played at the Westminster Chess Club
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-OQqAAAAYAAJ

Chess Studies
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VfUDAAAAQAAJ

La Bourdonnais' last days in London as described by Mr George Walker can be found in the comments here, as can all of the recorded games that we have.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=31596&kpage=3#kibitzing

https://lichess.org/@/fortmap
chess.com: fortmap

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