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Avery, Thomas

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1856  164  2022 (116) 6 1857  168  2031 (114) 0 1858  182  2040 (112) 3 1859  196  2040 (112) 0 1860  209  2041 (111) 0 1861  223  2042 (110) 0 1862  230  2043 (108) 0 1863  228  2044 (106) 0 1864  236  2044 (103) 0 1865  253  2045 (100) 0 1866  274  2046 (95) 5 1867  279  2031 (95) 0 1868  296  2015 (94) 0 1869  305  2000 (91) 0 1870  335  1985 (88) 0 1871  376  1970 (83) 3 1872  371  1980 (82) 0 1873  366  1991 (79) 6 1874  363  2005 (82) 1 1875  376  2009 (85) 0 1876  366  2012 (86) 6 Rating table notes

Biographical data Name: Avery, Thomas   Born: 1813 Died: 17 Feb. 1894   Notes: Gaige gives year of birth as 1813; Sergeant says he was 81 when he died on 17 Feb. 1894.   References Books    Chess Association, Manchester 1857 Report, page 5, 39, 40    Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 519    Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 17    Harding, Steinitz in London, page 243    Löwenthal and Medley, Chess Congress of 1862, page xl    Löwenthal and Medley, Transactions of the BCA, 1868-1869, page 13    Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 99, 222 Periodicals    [BLL], 23 Feb. 1862, page 1    [CPC], vol. 1, no. 5, May 1853, page 154    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 30, June 1861, page 165    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 3, June 1872, page 89    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 9, June 1873, page 281    [CPC], vol. 3, no. 10, Aug. 1873, page 307    [CPC], vol. 4, no. 2, Apr. 1874, page 64ii    [CPM], vol. 2, no. 4, Apr. 1866, page 109    [CPM], vol. 3, no. 8, 1 Aug. 1867, page 252    [CPQC], vol. 2, no. 9, June 1871, page 277, 284    [Era], vol. 17, no. 876, 8 July 1855, page 6    [Era], vol. 33, no. 1717, 20 Aug. 1871, page 7    [Fld], 3 Apr. 1875    [Fld], 3 June 1876    [ILN], vol. 27, no. 752, 14 July 1855, page 43    [ILN], vol. 33, no. 925, 3 July 1858, page 14    [ILN], vol. 40, no. 1132, 22 Feb. 1862, page 204    [ILN], vol. 58, no. 1646, 22 Apr. 1871, page 411    [ILN], vol. 62, no. 1758, 10 May 1873, page 451 Web    Sarah.  [The Birmingham Meeting]    Sarah.  [Morphy - Thomas Avery]    Sarah.  [Paul Goes to England]    Sarah.  [Paul Morphy's Contenders]    Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

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Tournament data

Birmingham 1856	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Wood, John (2)	3 - 0
Worcester, England 1856	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Lyttelton, G.W.	2 - 1
Birmingham 1858 (1)	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Lyttelton, G.W.	3 - 0
Worcester, England 1866	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Wood, John (2)	2 - 0
Birmingham 1866 (1)	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Lyttelton, G.W.	3 - 0
Birmingham 1871	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Eld, F.J.	0 - 3
Worcester, England 1873	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Anthony, E.	0.5 - 2.5
Birmingham 1873 (1)	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Lyttelton, G.W.	2 - 1
Birmingham 1874 (1)	Birmingham - Cheltenham Club Match
	Avery, T. - Philson	1 - 0
Birmingham 1876	Oxford University Club - Birmingham Club Match
	Avery, T. - Meredith, S.R.	2 - 1
Malvern 1876	Birmingham - Worcester Club Match
	Avery, T. - Wood, John (2)	2 - 1

Player information updated: 5 Jan. 2023