Buckle, Henry




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1842  2528 (63) 19
1843  2563 (56) 16
1844  2542 (60) 0
1845  11  2522 (60) 6
1846  10  2530 (60) 0
1847  2539 (56) 16
1848  2551 (54) 8
1849  2547 (54) 6
1850  13  2516 (51) 4
1851  11  2515 (45) 29
1852  2529 (55) 2
1853  2537 (60) 6
1854  2521 (68) 0
1855  2505 (72) 1
1856  12  2485 (76) 0
1857  20  2464 (77) 6
1858  32  2446 (88) 0
1859  37  2427 (97) 0
1860  47  2409 (104) 0
1861  52  2390 (112) 2

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Buckle, Henry Thomas  
Born: 24 Nov. 1821
Died: 29 May 1862
 
Notes:
Feenstra Kuiper has birth date 2-11-1822. Sarah's web site has birth date 2-11-1821. Sergeant and Golombek have birth date 11-11-1821. The Chess Player's Magazine of Feb. 1864 (p.35) and the Sunday Times of 15 Jun. 1862 (p.5) give birth date 24-11-1822. Gaige has birth date 24-11-1821. The Era of 15 June 1862 (p.13) gives birth date as Nov. 1822 and date of death as 31 May 1862, and this information is repeated by Hazeltine in the New York Clipper of 26 July 1862. The June 1862 issue of La Nouvelle Régence (p.184) and the Feb. 1864 issue of the Chess Player's Magazine (p.45) also give 31 May 1862 as the date of death. The Era of 6 Mar. 1870 (p.7) gives Nov. 1822 and May 1862.
 
References
Books
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 76
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 57
   Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 50
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 79
   Hilbert, Writings in Chess History, page 78
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 51
   Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 62
Periodicals
   [BLL], 13 Apr. 1845, page 4
   [CPM], vol. 2, no. 2, Feb. 1864, page 34
   [Era], vol. 24, no. 1203, 13 Oct. 1861, page 13
   [Era], vol. 24, no. 1238, 15 June 1862, page 13
   [Era], vol. 27, no. 1395, 18 June 1865, page 14
   [Era], vol. 32, no. 1641, 6 Mar. 1870, page 7
   [Fld], 4 July 1874
   [ILN], vol. 18, no. 471, 22 Feb. 1851, page 163
   [MaSZ], vol. 1, no. 12, July 1850, page 186
   [NR], vol. 3, no. 6, June 1862, page 183
   [NYC], 26 July 1862
   [ST], no. 2044, 15 June 1862, page 5
   [SZ], vol. 1, no. 1, July 1846, page 2
   [SZ], vol. 1, no. 3, Sep. 1846, page 87
   [SZ], vol. 17, no. 7, July 1862, page 194
   [WP], vol. 6, no. 2, 2 June 1873, page 23
Web
   Harding, Tim.  [The Lost Heroes of Chess], page 2
   Jones, Robert H.  [No. 1 - Thomas Winter-Wood]
   Sarah.  [Henry Thomas Buckle]
   Sericano, C.  [Gerolamo Tassinari]
   Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Early World Rankings], page 7
   Tomlinson, Charles.  [Henry Buckle Part 1]
   Tomlinson, Charles.  [Henry Buckle Part 2: Buckle as a Chess Player]
   Tomlinson, Charles.  [Simpson's Divan]
   Winter, Edward.  [CN 4713. Last words]

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

Buckle, H.T. - Fonblanque, A. 1842         (c)     2   -   1
Buckle, H.T. - Tuckett, W.J.W. 1842         (f)     7   -   9      Buckle, H.T. gave odds of pawn and move
von der Lasa, T. - Buckle, H.T. 1843         (c)     2   -   1
Staunton, H. - Buckle, H.T. 1843         (f)     1   -   6      Staunton, H. gave odds of pawn and move
Bledow, L.E. - Buckle, H.T. 1843         (s)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Cochrane, J. 1843         (s)     1.5   -   0.5
de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. - Buckle, H.T. 1843         (s)     0   -   1      de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. gave odds of pawn and move
Buckle, H.T. - Bezzel, M.F.W. 1843         (s)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Scherpe 1843         (s)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Kossak, K.L.E. 1843         (s)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Hausler (1) 1843         (s)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - von Carisien, K.E. 1843         (s)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Hanstein, W. 1843         (c)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Kennedy, H.A. 1845         (s)     3   -   3
Buckle, H.T. - Bird, H.E. 1847         (c)     9   -   7      Buckle, H.T. gave odds of pawn and move
Buckle, H.T. - Kieseritzky, L.A.B.F. 1848         (f)     4.5   -   3.5
Williams, E. (1) - Buckle, H.T. 1850         (f)     3   -   1
Kieseritzky, L.A.B.F. - Buckle, H.T. 1851         (c)     2   -   1
Buckle, H.T. - Lowenthal, J.J. 1851         (f)     4.5   -   3.5
Buckle, H.T. - Anderssen (offhand) 1851         (c)     8   -   7
von der Lasa, T. - Buckle, H.T. 1851         (c)     3   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Wayte, W. 1852         (c)     1   -   1      Buckle, H.T. gave odds of pawn and two moves
Buckle, H.T. - MacDonnell, G.A. 1853         (c)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Barnes, T.W. 1853         (c)     3.5   -   1.5      Buckle, H.T. gave odds of pawn and move
Buckle, H.T. - Tassinari, G. 1855         (s)     1   -   0
Buckle, H.T. - Owen, J. 1857         (s)     3   -   3
Buckle, H.T. - Winter-Wood, T. 1861         (c)     1   -   1      Buckle, H.T. gave odds of pawn and move

Tournament data

London, England 1849     Ries' Divan tournament    
  Buckle, H.T. - Smith, C.F.     2 - 0    
  Buckle, H.T. - Williams, E. (1)     2 - 0    
  Buckle, H.T. - Medley, G.W.     1 - 0    
  Buckle, H.T. - Medley, J.R.     1 - 0    


Player information updated: 8 Jan. 2024