Bryan, Thomas




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1843  42  2287 (67) 26
1844  40  2290 (76) 0
1845  47  2293 (81) 0
1846  47  2296 (86) 0
1847  50  2299 (89) 0
1848  44  2303 (91) 0
1849  55  2306 (91) 0
1850  59  2309 (91) 0
1851  63  2312 (90) 0
1852  56  2316 (87) 0
1853  62  2319 (84) 0
1854  65  2322 (78) 0
1855  65  2325 (71) 0
1856  65  2328 (62) 0
1857  62  2332 (47) 65
1858  70  2319 (61) 0
1859  81  2307 (70) 3

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Bryan, Thomas Jefferson  
Born: 1803
Died: 15 May 1870
 
Notes:
Hooper and Whyld give birth date as c1800; Gaige gives c1803. Spinrad gives 'Brian' from The Chess Player. Listed in error as 'Jefferson, B.T.' on Sarah's Morphy contenders page and her Sacrificial Morphy page. A 'Bryant' is listed as a member of the Cercle des Echecs in Paris in 1845, but I suspect this should be 'Bryan, T.' (Le Palamède, 1845, p.135).
 
References
Books
   Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 30, 35, 94
   Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 86, 510
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 56
   Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 47
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 51
   Townsend, Notes on Staunton, page 70
Periodicals
   [BLL], 18 May 1845, page 4
   [CMNY], vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1858, page 29
   [CPC], vol. 5, no. 4, Apr. 1844, page 115
   [CPC], vol. 6, no. 6, June 1845, page 179, 187
   [Pal], vol. 3, no. 7, 15 July 1843, page 329
   [Pal], vol. 5, no. 3, 15 Mar. 1845, page 135
   [Pal], vol. 5, no. 9, 15 Sep. 1845, page 403
   [PDEB], 3 June 1870
   [TFF], 27 May 1870
Web
   Sarah.  [Paul Morphy's Contenders]
   Sarah.  [The Sacrificial Morphy]
   Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]
   Winter, Edward.  [CN 4259. Staunton v Saint Amant]
Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. - Bryan, T.J. 1843 (1)         (f)     8.5   -   11.5      de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. gave odds of pawn and three moves
de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. - Bryan, T.J. 1843 (2)         (c)     5   -   1      de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. gave odds of pawn and three moves
Morphy, P.C. - Bryan, T.J. 1857 (1)         (c)     33.5   -   21.5      Morphy, P.C. gave odds of a knight
Morphy, P.C. - Bryan, T.J. 1857 (2)         (c)     8   -   2      Morphy, P.C. gave odds of pawn and three moves
Morphy, P.C. - Bryan, T.J. 1859         (c)     2   -   1      Morphy, P.C. gave odds of a knight

Player information updated: 5 May 2020