Frederic Deacon was a Belgian chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

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

Samuel Boden

Samuel Standidge Boden was an English professional chess master.The mating pattern "Boden's Mate" was named after the mate that occurred in one of his games, Schulder-Boden, London 1853....

 won).
Deacon won matches against Edward Löwe

Edward Löwe

Edward Löwe was an English chess master.In 1847, he won a match with Howard Staunton but his opponent gave odds of pawn and two moves...

 (7.5 - 2.5) in 1851, and Carl Mayet (5 - 2) in 1852. He drew against Paul Morphy

Paul Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion. He was a chess prodigy...

 (1 - 1) in 1858.

He took 2nd, behind George Henry Mackenzie

George Henry Mackenzie

George Henry Mackenzie was a Scottish–American chess master....

, at London 1862 (handicap), shared 11th at London 1862 (the 5th BCA Congress, Adolf Anderssen

Adolf Anderssen

Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He is considered to have been the world's leading chess player in the 1850s and 1860s...

 won),
and lost a match to Wilhelm Steinitz

Wilhelm Steinitz

Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier...

(1.5 - 5.5) at London 1863.

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