Urusov, Sergey




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1853  14  2477 (76) 11
1854  11  2486 (71) 25
1855  11  2495 (75) 0
1856  10  2504 (76) 0
1857  11  2514 (74) 0
1858  14  2523 (70) 0
1859  14  2532 (61) 49
1860  13  2524 (67) 0
1861  15  2516 (71) 0
1862  18  2507 (71) 4
1863  19  2491 (76) 0
1864  19  2475 (79) 0
1865  21  2459 (80) 0
1866  29  2443 (80) 5
1867  42  2412 (86) 0
1868  58  2380 (91) 1
1869  66  2356 (98) 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

Tournament data

Moscow 1868     Moscow Club Tournament    
  Urusov, S.S. - von Schmidt, E.A.     0 - 1    


Player information updated: 6 Aug. 2024