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Szén, József

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1836  8  2484 (69) 50 1837  10  2483 (72) 0 1838  11  2482 (72) 0 1839  13  2482 (69) 9 1840  11  2481 (75) 0 1841  14  2480 (78) 0 1842  16  2479 (80) 0 1843  17  2478 (80) 0 1844  16  2477 (78) 0 1845  17  2476 (74) 10 1846  17  2485 (75) 0 1847  14  2494 (74) 0 1848  13  2504 (71) 0 1849  13  2513 (66) 0 1850  11  2522 (57) 0 1851  9  2532 (41) 48 1852  10  2518 (47) 25 1853  10  2508 (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