Taverner


Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1843  56  2135 (112) 8

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Taverner  
Born:
Died:
 
Notes:
Gaige (Chess Personalia) has only a Thomas Taverner born in 1856. William Greenwood Walker's 'A Selection of Games at Chess...' (1836) lists as suscribers a 'Taverner, L., esq.' and a 'Taverner, I., esq.' (p.279). Joseph Kling's 'The Chess Euclid' (1849) lists as a subscriber a 'Taverner, M., Esq.'. Bell's Life in London (3 Jan. 1841, p.1) has a 'J. Taverner' in a list of subscribers to a fund for de la Bourdonnais' widow.
 
References
Books
   Walker, Chess Studies, page 35
Periodicals
   [BLL], 10 Mar. 1844, page 4
   [CPC], vol. 4, no. 5, May 1843, page 132
   [CPC], vol. 7, no. 12, Dec. 1846, page 368
Web
   Sarah.  [The Romance of Chess - A Perspective on the Art of Odds-giving]

Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Staunton, H. - Taverner 1843         (f)     5.5   -   1.5      Staunton, H. gave odds of pawn and move
de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. - Taverner 1843         (c)     1   -   0