Young, Franklin




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1885  316  2136 (91) 2
1886  286  2155 (83) 0
1887  271  2173 (75) 0
1888  245  2191 (63) 35
1889  252  2177 (75) 0
1890  295  2163 (84) 0
1891  320  2149 (92) 0
1892  356  2134 (99) 0
1893  374  2120 (105) 0
1894  402  2106 (110) 0
1895  440  2092 (114) 0
1896  457  2078 (118) 0
1897  489  2063 (122) 0
1898  529  2049 (125) 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, 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
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: 1 Feb. 2023