Urusov, Sergey




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1853  13  2489 (77) 11
1854  11  2497 (71) 25
1855  11  2507 (75) 0
1856  11  2517 (76) 0
1857  12  2526 (75) 0
1858  13  2536 (70) 0
1859  13  2546 (62) 49
1860  13  2540 (68) 0
1861  15  2534 (71) 0
1862  17  2528 (72) 4
1863  17  2514 (77) 0
1864  17  2501 (81) 0
1865  17  2487 (83) 0
1866  19  2473 (83) 5
1867  27  2446 (91) 0
1868  38  2419 (97) 0
1869  49  2391 (103) 1

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Urusov, Sergey Semenovich  
Born: 3 Aug. 1827
Died: 2 Dec. 1897
 
Notes:
Feenstra Kuiper has birth 3 April. Gaige has birth 3 August. The name is spelled in many different ways, e.g. 'Owroussow' in Bell's Life in London (15 Dec. 1866, p.9).
 
References
Books
   Cornil, Historique des revues francophones, page 31
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 135
   Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 39
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 436
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 378
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 170, 247, 368
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 437
   Renette and Zavatarelli, Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle, page 117
   Wade, Soviet Chess, page 17
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 195
Periodicals
   [BLL], no. 2330, 15 Dec. 1866, page 9
   [CP], vol. 4, no. 2, Aug. 1853, page 64
   [CPC], vol. 13, no. 3, Mar. 1852, page 94
   [CW], vol. 2, no. 4, June 1866, page 115
   [Era], vol. 28, no. 1458, 2 Sep. 1866, page 5
   [ILN], vol. 20, no. 547, 28 Feb. 1852, page 179
   [ILN], vol. 30, no. 866, 27 June 1857, page 640
   [ILN], vol. 40, no. 1144, 17 May 1862, page 513
   [SZ], vol. 8, no. 6, June 1853, page 178
   [SZ], vol. 8, no. 8, Aug. 1853, page 263
Web
   Grekov, N.I.  [Old Moscow Chess]
   Harding, Tim.  [The Eternal Appeal of the Urusov Gambit]
   Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]
   Winter, Edward.  [CN 3667. Tolstoy and chess]
   Winter, Edward.  [Tolstoy and Chess]

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

Petrov, A.D. - Urusov, S.S. 1853         (c)     3   -   1
Urusov, S.S. - Shumov, I.S. 1853         (f)     4   -   3
von Jaenisch, C.F.A. - Urusov, S.S. 1854         (f)     2   -   2
Urusov, S.S. - Shumov, I.S. 1854         (f)     12   -   9
Urusov, S.S. - Shumov, I.S. 1859 (1)         (f)     8.5   -   4.5
Petrov, A.D. - Urusov, S.S. 1859         (f)     13.5   -   7.5
Urusov, S.S. - Shumov, I.S. 1859 (2)         (f)     6.5   -   2.5
Urusov, S.S. - Mikhailov, V.M. 1859         (f)     5   -   1
Urusov, S.S. - Kozlianinov, N.I. 1859         (f)     1   -   0
Kolisch, I. - Urusov, S.S. 1862         (f)     2   -   2
Urusov, S.S. - Hirschfeld, P.M. 1866         (c)     3   -   2
Amelung, F.L. - Urusov, S.S. 1869         (c)     1   -   0


Player information updated: 22 Aug. 2023