Edo Ratings, Menssing, G.A.

Menssing, G. Adolphus

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1864	299	1904	(107)	2
1865	334	1904	(102)	4
1866	350	1920	(102)	0
1867	331	1935	(101)	0
1868	328	1951	(100)	0
1869	322	1966	(98)	0
1870	328	1982	(95)	0
1871	328	1997	(92)	0
1872	330	2013	(87)	3
1873	312	2030	(86)	2
1874	316	2042	(88)	2
1875	309	2061	(93)	0
1876	283	2080	(96)	0
1877	252	2099	(99)	1
1878	250	2108	(103)	2

Rating table notes

Biographical data

Name: Menssing, Gustavus Adolphus

Also known as: A. Menssing

Born: 1838

Died: 18 Jan. 1900

Notes:

Steve Mann gives his date of birth as 1836-1839, from inconsistent census reports. I will guess at 1838, only as an approximation. Steve Mann also gives his death date in one place as 11-04-1900 and in another as 18-01-1900. I do not know which is correct. His name was sometimes given as 'Mensing', but should be 'Menssing' as it used the double-s character, ß, in German. He was known by his middle name 'Adolphus' and thus often appears as 'A. Mensing' or 'A. Menssing'.

References

Books

Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 91, 104, 131

Periodicals

[CPC], vol. 3, no. 8, 1873, page 247

[CPM], vol. 1, no. 6, June 1865, page 184

[Era], vol. 27, no. 1393, 4 June 1865, page 6

[ILN], vol. 45, no. 1290, 3 Dec. 1864, page 571

[ILN], vol. 64, no. 1815, 6 June 1874, page 547

[LeT], vol. 32, no. 1679, 27 May 1865, page 3

Web

Mann, Steve. [Yorkshire Chess History - 1873: Bradford v Halifax]

Mann, Steve. [Yorkshire Chess History - Gustavus Adolphus Menssing]

Tournament data

Huddersfield or Bradford (?) 1864     Huddersfield - Bradford Club Match

  Menssing, G.A. - Schloesser, F.     2 - 0

Bradford and Huddersfield 1865     Huddersfield - Bradford Club Match

  Menssing, G.A. - Campbell, A. (1)     1 - 2

Bradford 1865 (1)     West Yorkshire Chess Association - First Class

  Menssing, G.A. - Fieldsend, W.     0 - 1

Wakefield 1872     Bradford - Wakefield Club Match

  Menssing, G.A. - Day, S.     1 - 2

Bradford 1873 (1)     Bradford - Halifax Club Match

  Menssing, G.A. - Werner, M.G.E.     1 - 1          Werner, M.G.E. gave odds of pawn and move

Bradford 1874 (1)     Leeds - Bradford Club Match

  Menssing, G.A. - Stokoe, T.Y.     0.5 - 0.5

Huddersfield 1874 (2)     West Yorkshire Chess Association Meeting - First Tournament

  Menssing, G.A. - Godwin, A.     0 - 1

Halifax, Yorkshire 1877     Bradford - Halifax Club Match

  Menssing, G.A. - Common, W. (2)     1 - 0

Bradford 1878     Bradford - Manchester Athenaeum Club Match

  Menssing, G.A. - Heap, H. (2)     2 - 0