Whiteman, James




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1860  123  2242 (90) 8
1861  108  2276 (86) 0
1862  94  2311 (81) 0
1863  63  2345 (75) 0
1864  49  2380 (66) 14
1865  47  2386 (72) 0
1866  48  2392 (75) 0
1867  48  2398 (76) 0
1868  47  2404 (75) 0
1869  45  2409 (72) 13
1870  51  2385 (81) 0
1871  65  2361 (87) 0
1872  73  2336 (93) 0
1873  88  2312 (97) 0
1874  102  2287 (100) 0
1875  120  2263 (103) 2

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Whiteman, James G.  
Born:
Died:
 
Notes:
Brennen gives 'James Whitman' in a game against Jellett in Philadelphia in 1864. I am guessing that this is James G. Whiteman. This may also be the 'Whitman' given by van Winsen on p.23 of his James Mason in America. The Era of 31 Jul. 1870 (p.7) has 'T.G. Whiteman'. Harding's Blackburne biography mentions as a participant in a blindfold simultaneous exhibition by Blackburne in Sheffield in Feb. 1873, a player named 'Whitman, the American consular agent in Huddersfield, who was said to be himself capable of conducting four simultaneous blindfold games', citing the Sheffield Daily Telegraph and other local sources. I suspect that this was James G. Whiteman.
 
References
Books
   American Chess Association, Constitution of the American Chess Association, page 2
   Gilberg, Fifth American Chess Congress, page 99
   Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 92
   Hilbert, Emil Kemeny, page 80
   Hilbert, Essays in American Chess History, page 98
   Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 9
   van Winsen, James Mason in America, page 60, 319
   van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. I, page 27
   van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. III, page 102
   van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. IV, page 86
Periodicals
   [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 11, Dec. 1874, page 271
   [Era], vol. 30, no. 1549, 31 May 1868, page 6
   [Era], vol. 31, no. 1592, 28 Mar. 1869, page 4
   [Era], vol. 32, no. 1662, 31 July 1870, page 7
   [ILN], vol. 44, no. 1246, 20 Feb. 1864, page 195
   [MCR], vol. 1, no. 11, Nov. 1874, page 452
   [NYC], 18 July 1868
   [PDEB], 30 July 1864
   [PDEB], 14 Jan. 1865
   [PDEB], 7 June 1867
   [SoT], 31 Oct. 1874
   [SZ], vol. 24, no. 4, Apr. 1869, page 108
   [WP], vol. 7, no. 5, 1 Sep. 1874, page 82
   [WP], vol. 7, no. 8, 1 Dec. 1874, page 153
Web
   Brennen, Neil.  [The Champion of the North: James Jellett's Adventures in American Chess]
Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Whiteman, J.G. - Maurian, C.A. 1864         (c)     7   -   1
Perrin, F. - Whiteman, J.G. 1864         (c)     1   -   1
Whiteman, J.G. - Elson, J. 1869 (1)         (f)     8.5   -   2.5
Whiteman, J.G. - Elson, J. 1869 (2)         (f)     1.5   -   0.5
Alberoni, E. - Whiteman, J.G. 1875         (c)     2   -   0

Tournament data

Philadelphia 1860     1st Philadelphia Chess Club Tournament    
  Whiteman, J.G. - Houston, H.B.     3 - 0    
  Whiteman, J.G. - Patterson, J. (1)     3 - 1    
  Whiteman, J.G. - Walker, W.L.     1 - 3    
Philadelphia 1864     Philadelphia Club Handicap     2  /  4      odds player in pawn and move class

Player information updated: 6 Aug. 2024