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Avery, Thomas

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1856  166  2025 (116) 6 1857  169  2034 (114) 0 1858  184  2043 (112) 3 1859  199  2044 (112) 0 1860  213  2044 (111) 0 1861  227  2045 (110) 0 1862  238  2046 (108) 0 1863  233  2047 (106) 0 1864  242  2048 (103) 0 1865  257  2048 (100) 0 1866  278  2049 (95) 5 1867  282  2034 (95) 0 1868  301  2019 (94) 0 1869  310  2004 (92) 0 1870  340  1988 (88) 0 1871  386  1973 (84) 3 1872  384  1983 (82) 0 1873  377  1994 (80) 6 1874  371  2007 (82) 1 1875  387  2010 (85) 0 1876  378  2014 (86) 6 Rating table notes

Biographical data Name: Avery, Thomas   Born: 1813 Died: 17 Feb. 1894   Notes: Gaige gives year of birth as 1813; Sergeant says he was 81 when he died on 17 Feb. 1894.   References Books    Chess Association, Manchester 1857 Report, page 5, 39, 40    Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 519    Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 17    Harding, Steinitz in London, page 243    Löwenthal and Medley, Chess Congress of 1862, page xl    Löwenthal and Medley, Transactions of the BCA, 1868-1869, page 13    Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 99, 222 Periodicals    [BLL], 23 Feb. 1862, page 1    [CPC], vol. 1, no. 5, May 1853, page 154    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 30, June 1861, page 165    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 3, June 1872, page 89    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 9, June 1873, page 281    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 10, Aug. 1873, page 307    [CPC], vol. 4, no. 2, Apr. 1874, page 64ii    [CPM], vol. 2, no. 4, Apr. 1866, page 109    [CPM], vol. 3, no. 8, 1 Aug. 1867, page 252    [CPQC], vol. 2, no. 9, June 1871, page 277, 284    [Era], vol. 17, no. 876, 8 July 1855, page 6    [Era], vol. 33, no. 1717, 20 Aug. 1871, page 7    [Fld], 3 Apr. 1875    [Fld], 3 June 1876    [ILN], vol. 27, no. 752, 14 July 1855, page 43    [ILN], vol. 33, no. 925, 3 July 1858, page 14    [ILN], vol. 40, no. 1132, 22 Feb. 1862, page 204    [ILN], vol. 58, no. 1646, 22 Apr. 1871, page 411    [ILN], vol. 62, no. 1758, 10 May 1873, page 451 Web    Sarah.  [The Birmingham Meeting]    Sarah.  [Morphy - Thomas Avery]    Sarah.  [Paul Goes to England]    Sarah.  [Paul Morphy's Contenders]    Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

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Tournament data

Birmingham 1856	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Wood, John (2)	3 - 0
Worcester, England 1856	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Lyttelton, G.W.	2 - 1
Birmingham 1858 (1)	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Lyttelton, G.W.	3 - 0
Worcester, England 1866	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Wood, John (2)	2 - 0
Birmingham 1866 (1)	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Lyttelton, G.W.	3 - 0
Birmingham 1871	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Eld, F.J.	0 - 3
Worcester, England 1873	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Anthony, E.	0.5 - 2.5
Birmingham 1873 (1)	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Lyttelton, G.W.	2 - 1
Birmingham 1874 (1)	Birmingham - Cheltenham Club Match
	Avery, T. - Philson	1 - 0
Birmingham 1876	Oxford University Club - Birmingham Club Match
	Avery, T. - Meredith, S.R.	2 - 1
Malvern 1876	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Wood, John (2)	2 - 1

Player information updated: 5 Jan. 2023