Fleming, Richard




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1886  191  2248 (103) 2
1887  179  2260 (98) 0
1888  174  2273 (92) 0
1889  156  2285 (84) 9
1890  192  2266 (90) 0
1891  205  2247 (95) 0
1892  240  2228 (99) 0
1893  265  2209 (102) 3
1894  272  2198 (109) 0
1895  297  2188 (115) 0
1896  295  2178 (121) 0
1897  314  2167 (126) 0
1898  346  2157 (130) 0
1899  368  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