Mr. Porterfield Rynd, whose reputation as a chess-player has been acquired in Ireland, and who took part in the recent Masters' Tournament at Nottingham, gave a blindfold seance at the City of London Club on the 22nd of last December. He encountered six strong players, and the result was that he lost one game, won two, and drew three. But what is particularly noticeable in this contest is that in its early part Mr. Rynd played at the rate of 25 moves per hour; and that towards the end he quickened up his pace to 40 moves per hour."

Here http://www.icu.ie/articles/display.... it is stated that he won it "two to two, and a draw", and that he even beat Amos Burn three to one. These are tremendous results, but what happened to the games? Are the lost?

One more example. He later argues against Rynd, because he remained silent, when additional facts on the Saavedra position became known. But he didn't mention whether Burn remained silent, when the result of the match has been published in 1889 or even before. I don't know if Roycroft is right or wrong, but he behaves like an accuser, not like a judge.

http://www.chessbites.com/Games.asp...

https://www.icu.ie/articles/76

<Porterfield Rynd>

E.g., a couple of contemporaneous examples can be found:

https://books.google.com/books?id=l...;

https://books.google.com/books?id=Y...;

Both of which refer to the man as <Porterfield Rynd>.

Generally, I like to follow the usage of the time. It helps to match names when searching through the literature, and better respects the wishes of the player themselves.

Tim Harding is someone I can trust - but who can trust <CG>?

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Before showing some games between them, here are a few facts about Rynd. In 1865 James Alexander Rynd, the son of Dublin solicitor James Goodlatte Rynd, had won the third tournament at the Dublin Congress: the one restricted to Irish residents. As a result of this and other successes, he was regarded as unofficial or official Irish chess champion for decades. In 1869, Rynd entered the King’s Inns, Dublin, as a student training to be a barrister (attorney). On 7 September 1869 he married Anna Cranwill, probably either the daughter or sister of a founder member of the City and County of Dublin Chess Club.

For a few months in 1870-1, Rynd conducted (with the help of Thomas Long) the short-lived chess column in the Irish Sportsman and Farmer. Irish bar students often registered with one of the English Inns of Court too; he did this in 1872. On 9 October 1873 his first child was born: Kenneth Arly Rynd, who also became a strong player.

<Finally in 1874, James A. Rynd qualified for the Irish bar and he later practised law in England too. At some point he assumed the name “Porterfield” and dropped his given names.>

When was he born? Gaige gave Rynd’s birth year as “1855?,” which evidently he did in ignorance that Rynd had won the 1865 tournament.

Dutch researcher Harrie Grondijs, in his privately published book No Rook Unturned: A Tour Around the Saavedra Study, found Rynd’s Irish Times obituary. This implied that he was born in 1846, but the exact date was elusive. My first attempt to confirm Grondijs’s guess was unfruitful, but it is now confirmed in the book King’s Inn’s Barristers, 1868-2004, edited by Kenneth Ferguson, and published last year. Rynd was born on 6 April 1846 and died on 17 March 1917. Ferguson’s book is also the source of information about the dates of his legal training.

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https://web.archive.org/web/2012061...

So... <CG> gets the dob/dod from Harding, but not the name?

<Porterfield Rynd>

http://www.icu.ie/articles/76

<A Burnley Divorce Case.— On Saturday, in the Probate and Divorce Division of the High Court of Justice, Sir James Hannen, the president, declared a decree nisi in the petition for dissolution of marriage made by James Alexander Peterfield Kenneth Rynd, barrister, of 35, Paragon-road, Hackney, London. The petitioner alleged adultery on the part of the respondent with Robt. Tweedie, late a color-sergeant in the East Lancashire Regiment, of Burnley. Sergeant-Major Barry (Burnley) gave evidence that the respondent and co-respondent had cohabited together as man and wife for many years during Tweedie’s connection with the regiment.>