Fleming, Richard




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1886  193  2239 (103) 2
1887  183  2251 (98) 0
1888  180  2263 (92) 0
1889  170  2274 (85) 9
1890  193  2256 (91) 0
1891  217  2237 (95) 0
1892  245  2218 (99) 0
1893  270  2199 (103) 3
1894  281  2189 (109) 0
1895  297  2179 (115) 0
1896  300  2169 (121) 0
1897  325  2159 (126) 0
1898  346  2149 (130) 0
1899  381  2139 (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]
   Cohen, David.  [Canadian Chess: Richard P. Fleming]
   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