Edo Ratings, Cocking, G.B.

Cocking, George

Ratings

Year	Rank	Edo	Dev.	Games
1865	401	1740	(118)	4
1866	439	1743	(115)	4
1867	423	1743	(119)	0
1868	435	1743	(123)	0
1869	442	1743	(126)	0
1870	495	1743	(129)	0
1871	538	1743	(132)	0
1872	563	1743	(134)	0
1873	585	1743	(136)	0
1874	643	1743	(138)	0
1875	680	1743	(140)	0
1876	669	1743	(141)	1

Rating table notes

Biographical data

Name: Cocking, George Bailey

Born: 1824

Died: 21 July 1905

Notes:

Steve Mann gives his age at the 1881 census as 57, so he was born in 1823 or 1824.

References

Periodicals

[CLCM], vol. 2, no. 2, Mar. 1875, page 34

[CPC], vol. 2, no. 2, Feb. 1854, page cover

[CPC], vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 1855, page cover

[CPC], vol. 3, no. 11, Oct. 1873, page 346

[CPM], vol. 1, no. 5, Nov. 1863, page 136

[CPM], vol. 2, no. 5, May 1864, page 153

[CPM], vol. 2, no. 12, Dec. 1864, page 356

[CPM], vol. 2, no. 3, Mar. 1866, page 92

[CPM], vol. 3, no. 3, Mar. 1867, page 72

[CPQC], vol. 2, no. 9, June 1871, page 285

[CW], vol. 1, no. 10, Dec. 1865, page 316

[CW], vol. 2, no. 1, Mar. 1866, page 25

[Era], vol. 25, no. 1287, 24 May 1863, page 5

[Era], vol. 28, no. 1430, 18 Feb. 1866, page 6

[Era], vol. 34, no. 1729, 12 Nov. 1871, page 2

[HoCM], vol. 1, no. 2, 28 Feb. 1865, page 32

[ILN], vol. 47, no. 1346, 9 Dec. 1865, page 571

[ILN], vol. 53, no. 1505, 10 Oct. 1868, page 363

[ILN], vol. 59, no. 1678, 11 Nov. 1871, page 467

[SRI], vol. 52, no. 5488, 25 Jan. 1871, page 4

[WP], vol. 9, no. 2, 1 June 1876, page 26

Web

Mann, Steve. [Sheffield Chess History - 1850: Sheffield Athenaeum & Mechanics Institution Chess Club Annual Meeting]

Mann, Steve. [Sheffield Chess History - 1851: Sheffield Athenaeum & Mechanics Institute Chess Club Annual Meeting]

Mann, Steve. [Yorkshire Chess History - George Bailey Cocking]

Tournament data

Huddersfield and Sheffield 1864     Huddersfield - Sheffield Club Match

  Cocking, G.B. - Jonas, J.H.     0 - 2

Sheffield 1865     Sheffield Athenaeum Club Tournament

  Cocking, G.B. - Smith, Sy. (1)     2 - 0          Cocking, G.B. gave odds of pawn and move

  Cocking, G.B. - Davy, He.     0 - 2

Sheffield 1866 (2)     Sheffield Athenaeum Club Handicap     8 / 17      odds player in pawn and move class

Halifax, Yorkshire 1876 (3)     West Yorkshire Chess Association - 2nd Class Tournament

  Cocking, G.B. - Marks, J.C.     0.5 - 0.5