| Ratings 
 
 
  | Year | Rank | Edo | Dev. | Games |  
  | 1876 | 374 | 2012 | (74) | 16 |  
 
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |  | 
   | Name: Eccles, James |  
   | Born: |  
   | Died: |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 110, 128 |  
   | Harding, Steinitz in London, page 238, 241, 244, 255 |  
   | Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 126 |  | Periodicals |  
   | [CLCM], vol. 2, no. 3, Apr. 1875, page 68 |  
   | [CLCM], vol. 2, no. 10, Nov. 1875, page 314 |  
   | [Fld], 9 Oct. 1875 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 67, no. 1889, 23 Oct. 1875, page 415 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 68, no. 1901, 1 Jan. 1876, page 22 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 68, no. 1916, 15 Apr. 1876, page 383 |  
   | [WP], vol. 8, no. 11, 1 Mar. 1876, page 215 |  |  |