Young, Franklin




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1885  210  2220 (82) 2
1886  196  2243 (74) 0
1887  173  2266 (63) 5
1888  196  2250 (56) 35
1889  212  2234 (70) 0
1890  242  2218 (80) 0
1891  249  2202 (88) 0
1892  285  2186 (95) 0
1893  304  2170 (101) 0
1894  329  2154 (107) 0
1895  360  2138 (111) 0
1896  379  2122 (115) 0
1897  415  2106 (119) 0
1898  466  2091 (122) 1

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Young, Franklin Knowles  
Born: 21 Oct. 1857
Died: 19 Dec. 1931
 
Notes:
Sarah's Chess Journal web site gives birth date 21-12-1857. Gaige gives birth date 21-10-1857. Di Felice has a 'Young' in the 1st England versus USA University cable match, 1899?
 
References
Books
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 473
   Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 348
   Hilbert and Lahde, Albert Beauregard Hodges, page 223
   Hilbert, Emil Kemeny, page 139
   Hilbert, Napier, page 118
   Hilbert, Walter Penn Shipley, page 285
   Hilbert, Writings in Chess History, page 7
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 338
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 405
   Pope, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Vol.1, page 20
   Winter, Chess Explorations, page 203
Periodicals
   [ACMa], vol. 3, no. 1, July 1899, page 18
Web
   Sarah.  [Mandarins of the Yellow Buttons]
Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Steinitz, W. - Young, F.K. 1885 (1)         (c)     1   -   0
Steinitz, W. - Young, F.K. 1885 (2)         (c)     1   -   0      Steinitz, W. gave odds of a knight
Young, F.K. - Hanham, J.M. 1887         (f)     3.5   -   1.5
Burille, C.F. - Young, F.K. 1888         (c)     13.5   -   1.5

Tournament data

Boston, Massachusetts 1888     Paine Tournament     12  /  20
London, England and New York 1898     3rd Anglo-American Cable Match    
  Young, F.K. - Jackson, E.M.     0 - 1    

Player information updated: 6 Aug. 2024