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Kling, Josef

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1847  53  2310 (146) 1 1848  52  2307 (145) 0 1849  63  2304 (144) 0 1850  69  2302 (143) 0 1851  70  2299 (142) 0 1852  66  2296 (140) 0 1853  73  2293 (139) 0 1854  74  2290 (137) 0 1855  75  2287 (135) 0 1856  79  2284 (132) 0 1857  87  2281 (130) 2 1858  92  2274 (132) 0 1859  101  2267 (134) 0 1860  107  2260 (135) 0 1861  120  2254 (137) 1 Rating table notes

Biographical data Name: Kling, Josef      Also known as: K-g Born: 19 Mar. 1811 Died: 1 Dec. 1876   Notes: Gaige gives date of death as 1 Dec. 1876. The Illustrated London News of 6 Jan. 1877 (p.23) gives date of death as 9 Dec. 1876.   References Books    Bird, Chess History and Reminiscences    Burt, Bristol Chess Club, page 9    Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 216    Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 10, 576    Harding, Steinitz in London, page 41    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 167    Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 91, 171    Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 69 Periodicals    [BLL], 12 Apr. 1846, page 6    [BLL], 12 Dec. 1847, page 5    [DSZ], vol. 2, 1847, page 39    [Fld], 30 Dec. 1876    [ILN], vol. 37, no. 1044, 11 Aug. 1860, page 140    [ILN], vol. 70, no. 1956, 6 Jan. 1877, page 23    [MaSZ], vol. 1, no. 12, July 1850, page 185    [Pal], vol. 5, no. 4, 15 Apr. 1845, page 185    [SZ], vol. 1, no. 6, Dec. 1846, page 209 Web    Burt, John.  [The Bristol Chess Club]

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Tournament data

Paris 1847	Café de la Régence - Cercle de Paris match
	Kling, J. - Laroche, J.A.	1 - 0
Manchester 1857 (2)	1st British Chess Association Congress Minor Section
	Kling, J. - Rogers, H.H.	1 - 0
	Kling, J. - Hughes, H.	1 - 0
	Kling, J. - Owen, J.	0 - 1
Bristol and London, England 1861	Bristol - London telegraph match
	Kling, J. - Burden, F.	0.5 - 0.5

Player information updated: 3 Jun. 2023