Whiteman, James




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1860  121  2241 (90) 8
1861  107  2275 (86) 0
1862  89  2310 (81) 0
1863  61  2345 (75) 0
1864  48  2379 (66) 14
1865  45  2385 (72) 0
1866  48  2392 (75) 0
1867  48  2398 (76) 0
1868  45  2404 (75) 0
1869  39  2411 (72) 13
1870  48  2386 (81) 0
1871  62  2362 (87) 0
1872  67  2337 (93) 0
1873  81  2313 (97) 0
1874  96  2289 (100) 0
1875  115  2264 (103) 2

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Whiteman, James G.  
Born:
Died:
 
Notes:
Brennen gives 'James Whitman' in a game against Jellett in Philadelphia in 1864. I am guessing that this is James G. Whiteman. This may also be the 'Whitman' given by van Winsen on p.23 of his James Mason in America. The Era of 31 Jul. 1870 (p.7) has 'T.G. Whiteman'. Harding's Blackburne biography mentions as a participant in a blindfold simultaneous exhibition by Blackburne in Sheffield in Feb. 1873, a player named 'Whitman, the American consular agent in Huddersfield, who was said to be himself capable of conducting four simultaneous blindfold games', citing the Sheffield Daily Telegraph and other local sources. I suspect that this was James G. Whiteman.
 
References
Books
   American Chess Association, Constitution of the American Chess Association, page 2
   Gilberg, Fifth American Chess Congress, page 99
   Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 92
   Hilbert, Emil Kemeny, page 80
   Hilbert, Essays in American Chess History, page 98
   Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 9
   van Winsen, James Mason in America, page 60, 319
   van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. I, page 27
   van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. III, page 102
   van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. IV, page 86
Periodicals
   [CLCM], vol. 1, no. 11, Dec. 1874, page 271
   [Era], vol. 30, no. 1549, 31 May 1868, page 6
   [Era], vol. 31, no. 1592, 28 Mar. 1869, page 4
   [Era], vol. 32, no. 1662, 31 July 1870, page 7
   [ILN], vol. 44, no. 1246, 20 Feb. 1864, page 195
   [MCR], vol. 1, no. 11, Nov. 1874, page 452
   [NYC], 18 July 1868
   [PDEB], 30 July 1864
   [PDEB], 14 Jan. 1865
   [PDEB], 7 June 1867
   [SoT], 31 Oct. 1874
   [WP], vol. 7, no. 5, 1 Sep. 1874, page 82
   [WP], vol. 7, no. 8, 1 Dec. 1874, page 153
Web
   Brennen, Neil.  [The Champion of the North: James Jellett's Adventures in American Chess]
Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Whiteman, J.G. - Maurian, C.A. 1864         (c)     7   -   1
Perrin, F. - Whiteman, J.G. 1864         (c)     1   -   1
Whiteman, J.G. - Elson, J. 1869 (1)         (f)     8.5   -   2.5
Whiteman, J.G. - Elson, J. 1869 (2)         (f)     1.5   -   0.5
Alberoni, E. - Whiteman, J.G. 1875         (c)     2   -   0

Tournament data

Philadelphia 1860     1st Philadelphia Chess Club Tournament    
  Whiteman, J.G. - Houston, H.B.     3 - 0    
  Whiteman, J.G. - Patterson, J.     3 - 1    
  Whiteman, J.G. - Walker, W.L.     1 - 3    
Philadelphia 1864     Philadelphia Club Handicap     2  /  4      odds player in pawn and move class

Player information updated: 7 Nov. 2023