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Szén, József

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1836  7  2491 (69) 50 1837  9  2490 (72) 0 1838  10  2489 (72) 0 1839  13  2488 (69) 9 1840  11  2487 (75) 0 1841  14  2486 (78) 0 1842  16  2485 (80) 0 1843  17  2484 (80) 0 1844  16  2483 (78) 0 1845  17  2482 (74) 10 1846  17  2492 (75) 0 1847  14  2502 (74) 0 1848  13  2511 (71) 0 1849  13  2521 (66) 0 1850  11  2530 (57) 0 1851  9  2540 (41) 48 1852  10  2526 (47) 25 1853  10  2515 (56) 9 Rating table notes

Biographical data Name: Szén, József   Born: 9 July 1805 Died: 13 Jan. 1857   Notes: Sarah's web site has birth date 7-09-1805. Barcza has birth year 1806. Gaige has birth date 9-07-1805. Dubois has year of death as 1856 in La Rivista degli Scacchi (Aug. 1859, p.119). Gaige has 13-01-1857.   References Books    Barcza, Magyar Sakktörténet, Vol.1, page 71    Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 19, 249    Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 97    Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 416    Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 317    Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 73, 75, 76    Harding, Steinitz in London, page 16, 17    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 339    Murray, History of Chess, page 885    Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 43 Periodicals    [BLL], 1 Jan. 1837    [BLL], 31 May 1840, page 4    [BLL], 7 June 1840, page 3    [BLL], 7 Nov. 1841, page 2    [CMNY], vol. 1, no. 7, July 1857, page 223    [CPC], vol. 12, no. 4, Apr. 1851, page 116    [Era], vol. 19, no. 969, 19 Apr. 1857, page 14    [Era], vol. 19, no. 988, 30 Aug. 1857, page 14    [FLIN], 23 May 1857    [ILN], vol. 30, no. 856, 2 May 1857, page 420    [MaSZ], vol. 1, no. 5, May 1849, page 69    [NBSZ], vol. 4, no. 8, Aug. 1867, page 225    [NYC], 3 Oct. 1857    [Pal], vol. 2, no. 13, 15 Dec. 1842, page 264    [Phil], vol. 1, no. 3, Feb. 1838, page 118    [Reg], vol. 3, no. 7, July 1851, page 200    [RiS], vol. 1, no. 15, Aug. 1859, page 119    [ST], no. 1775, 26 Apr. 1857, page supp.4    [SZ], vol. 1, no. 1, July 1846, page 2    [SZ], vol. 1, no. 2, Aug. 1846, page 40    [SZ], vol. 5, no. 10, Oct. 1850, page 349    [SZ], vol. 6, no. 2, Feb. 1851, page 45    [SZ], vol. 6, no. 6, June 1851, page 234    [SZ], vol. 10, no. 11, Nov. 1855, page 349    [SZ], vol. 12, no. 5, May 1857, page 165 Web    Sarah.  [John Jacob Löwenthal]    Sarah.  [Joszef Szen]    Sarah.  [State of Chess in 1838]    Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]    Walker, George.  [Excerpt from 'The Café de la Régence']

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

Szen, J. - Calis 1836	(c)	12	-	1
Szen, J. - de la Bourdonnais, L.C.M. 1836	(c)	13	-	12	de la Bourdonnais, L.C.M. gave odds of pawn and two moves
Boncourt, H.H. - Szen, J. 1836	(f)	6	-	6
Szen, J. - Bledow, L.E. 1839	(c)	1	-	1
von Bilguer, P.R. - Szen, J. 1839	(c)	1	-	0
Szen, J. - von der Lasa, T. 1839	(c)	2	-	1
Mayet, C. - Szen, J. 1839	(c)	2.5	-	0.5
Szen, J. - Grimm, V. 1845	(s)	7	-	3
Szen, J. - Hirschbach, H. 1851	(c)	1	-	0
Hamppe, C. - Szen, J. 1851	(s)	1.5	-	0.5
Szen, J. - Brunner, G.A. 1851	(c)	1	-	1
Szen, J. - Vitzthum von Eckstadt, C.W. 1851	(c)	0.5	-	0.5
Kieseritzky, L.A.B.F. - Szen, J. 1851 (1)	(c)	13	-	7
Kieseritzky, L.A.B.F. - Szen, J. 1851 (2)	(c)	1	-	0
Szen, J. - Falkbeer, E.K. 1851	(c)	2	-	1
Szen, J. - Mongredien, A. (1) 1851	(s)	1	-	0
Szen, J. - Falkbeer, E.K. 1852	(f)	10	-	10
Szen, J. - Hamppe, C. 1852	(s)	1.5	-	0.5
Szen, J. - Jenay, E. 1852	(s)	1.5	-	0.5
Szen, J. - Kaskel, M. 1852	(c)	0.5	-	0.5
Szen, J. - Laroche, J.A. 1853	(c)	1.5	-	0.5
Harrwitz, D. - Szen, J. 1853	(c)	3.5	-	1.5
Boden, S.S. - Szen, J. 1853	(c)	1	-	1

Tournament data

London, England 1851 (1)	The International Chess Tournament
	Szen, J. - Newham, S.	2 - 0
	Szen, J. - Anderssen, K.E.A.	2 - 4
	Szen, J. - Horwitz, B.	4 - 0
	Szen, J. - Kennedy, H.A.	4.5 - 0.5

Player information updated: 8 Sept. 2024