Fleming, Richard




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1886  193  2249 (103) 2
1887  182  2261 (98) 0
1888  178  2274 (92) 0
1889  157  2286 (84) 9
1890  190  2267 (90) 0
1891  207  2248 (95) 0
1892  242  2229 (99) 0
1893  272  2209 (102) 3
1894  279  2199 (109) 0
1895  303  2189 (115) 0
1896  309  2178 (121) 0
1897  329  2168 (126) 0
1898  359  2158 (130) 0
1899  390  2147 (134) 1

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Fleming, Richard Philip  
Born: 13 June 1859
Died: 7 Feb. 1908
 
Notes:
Gaige has 'Richard F. Flemming'. Yanofsky has 'R.P. Fleming' on p.7 and 'P.B. Fleming' on p.27. Hilbert has 'R.P. Fleming' in Young Marshall and 'Richard Fleming' in Writings in Chess History. Stephen Wright has 'Richard P. Fleming'. Tim Harding (personal communication) also gives Peter W. Walsh's The story of the Dundee Chess Club (pp.94-95) as a source for the latter form of his name.
 
References
Books
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 121
   Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 285, 419
   Hilbert, Writings in Chess History, page 14
   Hilbert, Young Marshall, page 9
   Rowland, Pollock Memories, page 151
   Yanofsky, 100 Years of Chess in Canada, page 7, 27
Web
   Cohen, David.  [Canadian Chess: Champions - Closed]
   Cohen, David.  [Canadian Chess: Richard P. Fleming]
   McGowan, Alan.  [Richard Philip Fleming]
   Wright, Stephen.  [Canada's Nineteenth Century Chess Visitors II: the blindfold experts]
   Wright, Stephen.  [Early Canadian Championships]

Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Steinitz, W. - Fleming, R.P. 1893         (c)     1   -   0

Tournament data

Dundee 1886     Dundee Club Challenge Shield Tournament     10.5  /  12
  Fleming, R.P. - Baxter, C.R.     1 - 0    
Montreal 1889     16th Canadian Championship     6  /  8
  Fleming, R.P. - Narraway, J.E.     1 - 0    
Quebec 1893 (2)     Montreal - Quebec Club Match    
  Fleming, R.P. - Sanderson, E.     1 - 1    
Dundee 1899     Richardson Cup Team Match    
  Fleming, R.P. - Galloway, G.P.     1 - 0    


Player information updated: 3 Apr. 2022