Ratings
| Year |
Rank |
Edo |
Dev. |
Games |
| 1828 |
11 |
2300 | (157) | 3 |
| 1829 |
12 |
2301 | (157) | 0 |
| 1830 |
14 |
2302 | (156) | 0 |
| 1831 |
15 |
2302 | (155) | 0 |
| 1832 |
14 |
2303 | (154) | 0 |
| 1833 |
15 |
2303 | (153) | 0 |
| 1834 |
18 |
2304 | (152) | 0 |
| 1835 |
18 |
2305 | (151) | 0 |
| 1836 |
17 |
2305 | (149) | 0 |
| 1837 |
21 |
2306 | (147) | 0 |
| 1838 |
24 |
2307 | (146) | 0 |
| 1839 |
25 |
2307 | (144) | 0 |
| 1840 |
27 |
2308 | (142) | 0 |
| 1841 |
30 |
2309 | (139) | 0 |
| 1842 |
36 |
2309 | (137) | 0 |
| 1843 |
41 |
2310 | (134) | 1 |
| 1844 |
42 |
2304 | (134) | 0 |
| 1845 |
49 |
2298 | (134) | 0 |
| 1846 |
56 |
2292 | (134) | 0 |
| 1847 |
57 |
2286 | (133) | 0 |
| 1848 |
57 |
2280 | (133) | 0 |
| 1849 |
74 |
2274 | (132) | 1 |
| 1850 |
81 |
2261 | (134) | 0 |
| 1851 |
87 |
2248 | (135) | 1 |
Rating table notes
|
| Biographical data |
| Name: Evans, William Davies |
| Also known as: Captain Evans |
| Born: 27 Jan. 1790 |
| Died: 3 Aug. 1872 |
| |
| Notes: |
| Tim Harding points out that it is not entirely clear whether 27 Jan. 1790 was his birthdate or baptism date. He gives another source suggesting a birthdate of 3 Jan. 1790. |
|
| |
| References |
| Books |
| Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 26, 243 |
| Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 111 |
| Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 111 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 9, 318, 322, 332, 349 |
| Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 107 |
| Murray, History of Chess, page 880 |
| Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 29, 160 |
| Utterberg, De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, page 14 |
| Periodicals |
| [BLL], 8 Mar. 1835, page 2 |
| [BLL], 3 July 1836, page 2 |
| [BLL], 5 Feb. 1837, page 2 |
| [BLL], 30 Apr. 1837, page 2 |
| [BLL], 27 Aug. 1837, page 4 |
| [BLL], 7 Mar. 1841, page 2 |
| [BLL], 6 Mar. 1842, page 4 |
| [BLL], 13 Apr. 1845, page 2 |
| [BLL], no. 2247, 13 May 1865, page 9 |
| [BLL], no. 2701, 6 Apr. 1872, page 4 |
| [BLL], no. 2719, 10 Aug. 1872, page 3 |
| [BLL], no. 2730, 26 Oct. 1872, page 12 |
| [CPC], vol. 4, no. 5, May 1843, page 147 |
| [DCJ], vol. 4, no. 32, Oct. 1872, page 248 |
| [Era], vol. 34, no. 1768, 11 Aug. 1872, page 4, 14 |
| [ILN], vol. 17, no. 448, 28 Sep. 1850, page 263 |
| [Pal], vol. 1, no. 5, 15 Apr. 1842, page 202 |
| [Reg], vol. 2, no. 10, Oct. 1850, page 317 |
| Web |
| Harding, Tim. [Evans Gambit Reloaded], page 2 |
| Harding, Tim. [In the Footsteps of Harold Murray], page 7 |
| Harding, Tim. [The Search for Truth in the Evans Gambit (Part 1)], page 1 |
| Hilbert, John S. [Howard Staunton and Chess by 'Electric Telegraph'] |
| Sericano, C. [Maestri di scacchi dell'800] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [The Telegraph, the Velocipede, and the Bristol Sloth, Part One], page 2 |
| Thomas, W.R. [Captain William Evans] |
| Tomlinson, Charles. [Simpson's Divan] |
| Winter, Edward. [CN 4878. Evans the doffer] |
| |
