Urusov, Sergey




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1853  13  2487 (77) 11
1854  11  2495 (71) 25
1855  11  2505 (75) 0
1856  10  2515 (76) 0
1857  12  2524 (75) 0
1858  12  2534 (70) 0
1859  13  2544 (62) 49
1860  13  2537 (68) 0
1861  14  2531 (71) 0
1862  16  2525 (72) 4
1863  15  2512 (77) 0
1864  15  2498 (81) 0
1865  16  2484 (83) 0
1866  19  2471 (83) 5
1867  29  2444 (91) 0
1868  41  2416 (97) 0
1869  50  2389 (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