Edo Historical Chess Ratings

de Vere, Cecil

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1866  6  2621 (45) 32 1867  9  2576 (42) 33 1868  8  2561 (47) 1 1869  8  2554 (43) 18 1870  8  2541 (43) 14 1871  9  2557 (44) 21 1872  11  2549 (49) 16 1873  12  2530 (60) 0 1874  14  2511 (66) 7 Rating table notes

Biographical data Name: de Vere, Cecil Valentine      Also known as: Cecil Valentine Brown Born: 14 Feb. 1845 Died: 9 Feb. 1875   Notes: Feenstra Kuiper has birth 14-02-1846; Gaige has birth 14-02-1845. Hooper and Whyld give birth year 1845 in their 1st edition, but '1845?' in their 2nd edition, giving a quote by Löwenthal indicating that he might have been born in 1848.   References Books    Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 295    Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 98    Forster, Amos Burn, page 39, 958    Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 444    Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 85    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 90    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 107    Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 124, 167    Sunnucks, Encyclopaedia of Chess, page 109 Periodicals    [ILN], vol. 39, 28 Dec. 1861, page 665    [ILN], vol. 66, 20 Feb. 1875, page 187 Web    Harding, Tim.  [A History of the City of London Chess Magazine (Part 2)]    Sarah.  [Joseph Henry Blackburne]    Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]

Steinitz, W. - de Vere, C.V. 1866	(f)	4	-	8	Steinitz, W. gave odds of pawn and move
de Vere, C.V. - Zukertort, J.H. 1874	(c)	1	-	2

Tournament data

London 1866 (1)	1st British Chess Association Challenge Cup		9	/	9
London 1866 (2)	British Chess Association Handicap Tournament
	de Vere, C.V. - Steinitz, W.	1.5 - 2.5
Redcar, Yorkshire 1866 (1)	North Yorkshire and Durham Chess Association - 1st Class Tournament		6	/	7
Paris 1867	International Chess Congress Grand Tournament		12.5	/	22
Dundee 1867 (1)	Dundee Tournament		6.5	/	9
	de Vere, C.V. - MacDonnell, G.A.	1 - 1
London and Bristol 1868	Westminster - Bristol Telegraph Match
	de Vere, C.V. - Kennedy, H.A.	1 - 0
London 1869 (1)	London Handicap Tournament (British Chess Association?)
	de Vere, C.V. - Franklin, W.L.	0 - 1				de Vere, C.V. gave odds of pawn and two moves
	de Vere, C.V. - Blackburne, J.H.	0 - 1
London 1869 (2)	Glowworm Prize Tournament
	de Vere, C.V. - Wormald, R.B.	1 - 0
	de Vere, C.V. - Hampton, J.W.	1 - 0
	de Vere, C.V. - MacDonnell, G.A.	0.5 - 1.5
London 1869 (3)	2nd British Chess Association Challenge Cup		9.5	/	12
	de Vere, C.V. - Blackburne, J.H.	0 - 1
Baden-Baden 1870	Baden-Baden Tournament		4.5	/	14
London 1871 (3)	City of London Club Handicap - Section 3
	de Vere, C.V. - Fenton, R.H.F.	2 - 1				de Vere, C.V. gave odds of pawn and move
	de Vere, C.V. - Burn, A.	2 - 0
	de Vere, C.V. - Watts, J.J.	2 - 1				de Vere, C.V. gave odds of pawn and two moves
	de Vere, C.V. - Harper, T.	2 - 1				de Vere, C.V. gave odds of pawn and move
London 1871 (4)	City of London Club Handicap - Final Pool		5	/	10
London 1872 (2)	British Chess Association Grand Tourney		4.5	/	8
London 1872 (3)	4th British Chess Association Challenge Cup		6	/	7
	de Vere, C.V. - Wisker, J.	0 - 1
London 1874 (2)	City of London Club - Bermondsey Club Match
	de Vere, C.V. - Powell, T.	1 - 0				de Vere, C.V. gave odds of a knight
London 1874 (3)	City of London Club Handicap
	de Vere, C.V. - Zukertort, J.H.	1 - 2