Romantic Rumble: Curt von Bardeleben vs. Berthold Englisch

This is probably the least interesting match of the tournament.

I'm going to break the sequence a little here, partially because my upcoming obligations will take up a lot of my time, partially because I really want to get this one out of the way.

Romantic Rumble: Curt von Bardeleben vs. Berthold Englisch

There are many problems with this match. Neither player is especially well known (which is where I come in, I suppose), neither had too many impressive results, and the worst part of all, they only played each other once.

Let's briefly scan their individual results:

Englisch: =1st at Wiesbaden 1880 (see here), 7th at Vienna 1882, =5th at London 1883, and =2nd at Hamburg 1885.

Bardeleben: 5th at Nuremberg 1883, =3rd at Bradford 1888, and =4th at Breslau 1889.

Their only mutual tournament was Frankfurt 1887; Bardeleben finished 4th with 13/20, Englisch was further back in 7th with 11.5/20. As the icing on this rather disappointing cake, their game was a bit of a disaster.

When I encountered a similar issue in the Burn vs. Riemann chapter (see here), I remedied this by frontloading the technical analysis so there was at least some information you could use in your voting. This meant that I was locked into doing a biographical analysis of the players later, as I did with Riemann (see here). My current problem is that I actually don't know nearly enough about either player to do any biographical work, nor do I really know where to look; no existing biographies exist of either player, and the articles I've skimmed are either superficial or wildly incorrect. Compiling these things solely from contemporary sources would take far too long, so I'm in a bit of a bind.

What I'll do this time is apologize for the lack of content, insist that I have very little to go off, and assure you that (essentially by default) the remainder of the round will be much more interesting. The Blackburne-Paulsen match, for example, will detail only one of their three decades of mutual history, with plenty to talk about. Until then, please vote for who you want to move on, and who you want me to (try and) write about next. Ciao