Fleming, Richard




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1886  193  2250 (103) 2
1887  184  2263 (98) 0
1888  180  2275 (92) 0
1889  154  2288 (84) 9
1890  192  2268 (90) 0
1891  207  2249 (95) 0
1892  239  2230 (99) 0
1893  275  2211 (102) 3
1894  284  2200 (109) 0
1895  311  2190 (115) 0
1896  317  2180 (120) 0
1897  332  2169 (126) 0
1898  364  2159 (130) 0
1899  395  2149 (134) 1

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Fleming, Richard Philip  
Born: 13 June 1859
Died: 7 Feb. 1908
 
Notes:
Gaige has 'Richard F. Flemming'. Yanofsky has 'R.P. Fleming' on p.7 and 'P.B. Fleming' on p.27. Hilbert has 'R.P. Fleming' in Young Marshall and 'Richard Fleming' in Writings in Chess History. Stephen Wright has 'Richard P. Fleming'. Tim Harding (personal communication) also gives Peter W. Walsh's The story of the Dundee Chess Club (pp.94-95) as a source for the latter form of his name.
 
References
Books
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 121
   Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 285, 419
   Hilbert, Writings in Chess History, page 14
   Hilbert, Young Marshall, page 9
   Rowland, Pollock Memories, page 151
   Yanofsky, 100 Years of Chess in Canada, page 7, 27
Web
   Cohen, David.  [Canadian Chess: Champions - Closed] (broken)
   Cohen, David.  [Canadian Chess: Richard P. Fleming] (broken)
   McGowan, Alan.  [Richard Philip Fleming]
   Wright, Stephen.  [Canada's Nineteenth Century Chess Visitors II: the blindfold experts]
   Wright, Stephen.  [Early Canadian Championships]

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

Steinitz, W. - Fleming, R.P. 1893         (c)     1   -   0

Tournament data

Dundee 1886     Dundee Club Challenge Shield Tournament     10.5  /  12
  Fleming, R.P. - Baxter, C.R.     1 - 0    
Montreal 1889     16th Canadian Championship     6  /  8
  Fleming, R.P. - Narraway, J.E.     1 - 0    
Quebec 1893 (2)     Montreal - Quebec Club Match    
  Fleming, R.P. - Sanderson, E.     1 - 1    
Dundee 1899     Richardson Cup Team Match    
  Fleming, R.P. - Galloway, G.P.     1 - 0    


Player information updated: 3 Apr. 2022