Ratings
| Year |
Rank |
Edo |
Dev. |
Games |
| 1856 |
149 |
1939 | (175) | 2 |
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |
| Name: Cluley, William |
| Also known as: Clulie |
| Born: 1811 |
| Died: |
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| Notes: |
| Spinrad has 'Ciuley'; the Chess Player's Chronicle of July 1852 has 'Chuley'; the Chess Player's Chronicle of Apr. 1856 has 'Cluley'; the Illustrated London News of 21 May 1853 has 'Clulie'; the Illustrated London News of 14 July 1855 has 'W. Cluley'; the Illustrated London News in 1856 and 1857 has 'Cluley'; the Era of 2 July 1854 has 'Cluly'. Harding gives his age as 30 in the 1841 census, so he was born in 1810 or 1811. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Chess Association, Manchester 1857 Report, page 5, 7, 40 |
| Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 168, 369 |
| Periodicals |
| [BLL], 15 July 1855, page 5 |
| [CMNY], vol. 2, Feb. 1858, page 64 |
| [CP], vol. 3, June 1853, page 322 |
| [CPC], vol. 13, July 1852, page 219 |
| [CPC], vol. 1, June 1853, page 180 |
| [CPC], vol. 2, Nov. 1854, page 355 |
| [CPC], vol. 3, Aug. 1855, page 260 |
| [CPC], vol. 4, Apr. 1856, page 120 |
| [Era], vol. 16, 2 July 1854, page 7 |
| [Era], vol. 17, 8 July 1855, page 6 |
| [Era], vol. 18, 4 May 1856, page 14 |
| [Era], vol. 20, 6 Dec. 1857, page 16 |
| [Era], vol. 20, 18 Apr. 1858, page 7 |
| [ILN], vol. 22, 21 May 1853, page 403 |
| [ILN], vol. 27, 14 July 1855, page 43 |
| [ILN], vol. 28, 1 Mar. 1856, page 239 |
| [ILN], vol. 28, 3 May 1856, page 483 |
| [ILN], vol. 30, 7 Feb. 1857, page 124 |
| [ST], 16 Aug. 1857, page supp.4 |
| Web |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
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