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Orchard, I. Edward 
  
 
 
| Ratings 
 
 
  | Year | Rank | Edo | Dev. | Games |  
  | 1874 | 262 | 2096 | (78) | 23 |  
  | 1875 | 267 | 2102 | (70) | 17 |  
  | 1876 | 257 | 2110 | (58) | 18 |  
  | 1877 | 230 | 2132 | (61) | 48 |  
  | 1878 | 244 | 2121 | (67) | 3 |  
  | 1879 | 222 | 2133 | (70) | 0 |  
  | 1880 | 229 | 2145 | (71) | 0 |  
  | 1881 | 249 | 2158 | (70) | 0 |  
  | 1882 | 245 | 2170 | (65) | 0 |  
  | 1883 | 244 | 2182 | (57) | 11 |  
  | 1884 | 219 | 2217 | (51) | 0 |  
  | 1885 | 182 | 2252 | (37) | 60 |  
  | 1886 | 204 | 2240 | (51) | 0 |  
  | 1887 | 222 | 2227 | (56) | 13 |  
  | 1888 | 217 | 2234 | (64) | 10 |  
  | 1889 | 199 | 2244 | (71) | 0 |  
  | 1890 | 203 | 2254 | (74) | 0 |  
  | 1891 | 187 | 2264 | (74) | 13 |  
  | 1892 | 195 | 2260 | (77) | 0 |  
  | 1893 | 200 | 2256 | (79) | 0 |  
  | 1894 | 208 | 2251 | (79) | 0 |  
  | 1895 | 217 | 2247 | (77) | 0 |  
  | 1896 | 215 | 2243 | (73) | 4 |  
  | 1897 | 257 | 2211 | (75) | 3 |  
  | 1898 | 300 | 2195 | (81) | 3 |  
 
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |  | 
   | Name: Orchard, Isaac Edward |  
   | Born: 6 Dec. 1853 |  
   | Died: 20 May 1908 |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | Sarah has date of death 8 May 1908; Gaige has date of death 20 May 1908. The Hartford Weekly Times of 7 Dec. 1872 and the City of London Chess Magazine of May 1875 (p.102) have 'J.E. Orchard'. |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | American Chess Association, Constitution of the American Chess Association, page 14 |  
   | Davies, Samuel Lipschütz, page 307 |  
   | Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 312 |  
   | Gilberg, Fifth American Chess Congress, page 119 |  
   | Hilbert and Lahde, Albert Beauregard Hodges, page 13, 29 |  
   | Urcan, Adolf Albin in America, page 69 |  
   | van Winsen, James Mason in America, page 108, 165 |  
   | van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. VII, page 115 |  
   | Winter, Chess Facts and Fables, page 42 |  
   | Winter, Kings, Commoners and Knaves, page 148 |  | Periodicals |  
   | [CLCM], vol. 2, no. 4, May 1875, page 102 |  
   | [DCJ], vol. 5, no. 37, Mar. 1873, page 91 |  
   | [DCJ], vol. 8, no. 62, Apr. 1875, page 201 |  
   | [DCJ], vol. 8, no. 68, Nov. 1875, page 482 |  
   | [HWT], 7 Dec. 1872 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 70, no. 1975, 19 May 1877, page 479 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 71, no. 1990, 1 Sep. 1877, page 215 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 71, no. 1996, 13 Oct. 1877, page 367 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 73, no. 2046, 14 Sep. 1878, page 263 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 73, no. 2051, 19 Oct. 1878, page 379 |  
   | [MCR], vol. 1, no. 5, May 1874, page 202 |  
   | [WP], vol. 7, no. 12, 1 Apr. 1875, page 239 |  | Web |  
   | Brennen, Neil R.  ['The Queen of Chess': The Correspondence Chess of Ellen Gilbert] |  
   | Hilbert, John S.  [Winding through the Past], page 3 |  
   | Sarah.  [The Queen of Chess] |  
   | Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [The Scandal of 1880, Part 1], page 11 |  |  | 
 Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)
 
  | Orchard, I.E. - Ottolengui, D. 1874 (1) | (f) | 5 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Ottolengui, D. 1874 (2) | (f) | 5 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Fuller, E.N. 1874 | (f) | 3.5 | - | 3.5 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Granville 1874 | (f) | 5 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Witsell 1874 | (f) | 2 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Neufville, B.K. 1874 | (f) | 4 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Dugas, A.E. 1875 | (c) | 3 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Sofge, E.C. 1875 | (c) | 2 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Muller, Wi. 1875 | (c) | 13 | - | 4 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Wurm, A.F. 1877 (1) | (f) | 7.5 | - | 5.5 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Wurm, A.F. 1877 (2) | (f) | 12.5 | - | 9.5 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Wurm, A.F. 1877 (3) | (f) | 3.5 | - | 9.5 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Paine, M.B. 1878 | (f) | 5 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Marshall, R.M. 1878 | (c) | 1 | - | 1 | Orchard, I.E. gave odds of a knight |  
  | Wurm, A.F. - Orchard, I.E. 1883 | (f) | 8.5 | - | 2.5 |  |  
  | Lipschutz, S. - Orchard, I.E. 1885 | (c) | 3.5 | - | 1.5 |  |  
  | Delmar, E. (1) - Orchard, I.E. 1885 | (c) | 8.5 | - | 3.5 |  |  
  | Hanham, J.M. - Orchard, I.E. 1885 | (c) | 19 | - | 6 |  |  
  | Loyd, S. - Orchard, I.E. 1885 | (c) | 2.5 | - | 2.5 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Vorrath, A. 1885 | (c) | 3 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Ryan, J.S. - Orchard, I.E. 1885 | (c) | 4.5 | - | 2.5 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Angresius, C.F. 1885 | (c) | 2.5 | - | 0.5 |  |  
  | Wurm, A.F. - Orchard, I.E. 1887 | (f) | 6 | - | 2 |  |  
  | Hodges, A.B. - Orchard, I.E. 1887 | (c) | 4 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Wurm, A.F. - Orchard, I.E. 1888 | (f) | 6 | - | 4 |  |  
  | Orchard, I.E. - Wurm, A.F. 1891 | (f) | 8 | - | 5 |  |  Tournament data 
 
 
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