Frederick Horace Deacon (January 1829 – 20 November 1875, in Brixton, London) was a British

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

master. He is mainly notable for spurious claims to have drawn against

Paul Morphy Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s, Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master. A prodigy, Morphy emerged onto the chess scene in 1857 ...

, making himself both notorious and unpopular. He won a match against W. Gilby (2–1) and lost a match to Charles Edward Ranken (0–2) at London 1851 (''Provincial'', Samuel Boden won). Deacon won matches against

Edward Löwe Edward Löwe (also Eduard Loewe; 23 September 1794 – 24 February 1880) was a Bohemian-born, after 1830 naturalized English chess Chess title, master. Personal life Löwe was born in Prague and died in London. Match and tournament results In 1 ...

(7½–2½) in 1851, and Carl Mayet (5–2) in 1852. He claimed to have drawn against

(1–1) in 1858. He took 2nd, behind George Henry Mackenzie, at London 1862 (''handicap''), shared 11th at London 1862 (the 5th BCA Congress,

Adolf Anderssen Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (6 July 1818 – 13 March 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in ''Encyclopædia Britannica, The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a German chess master. ...

won),London
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Wilhelm Steinitz William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and c ...

(1½–5½) at London 1863.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Deacon, Frederic 1829 births 1875 deaths British chess players 19th-century chess players