Baucher, Henri




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1854  119  2056 (142) 1
1855  130  2065 (140) 0
1856  141  2074 (137) 0
1857  143  2083 (135) 0
1858  152  2092 (132) 2
1859  163  2105 (129) 0
1860  163  2118 (127) 0
1861  168  2131 (124) 0
1862  157  2145 (121) 0
1863  147  2158 (117) 0
1864  150  2171 (113) 0
1865  148  2184 (109) 0
1866  147  2198 (103) 0
1867  136  2211 (98) 0
1868  130  2224 (91) 0
1869  116  2237 (83) 10
1870  121  2231 (90) 0
1871  128  2225 (97) 0
1872  138  2219 (103) 0
1873  143  2213 (108) 1

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Baucher, Henri  
Born: 22 Oct. 1818
Died: 19 June 1912
 
Notes:
Staunton gives his name as 'Boucher' in the Illustrated London News of 16 Oct. 1858 (p.365). The Chess Players' Quarterly Chronicle of Feb. 1870 (p.9) has 'M. Bancher', but corrects this in the Apr. 1870 issue (p.61).
 
References
Books
   Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 92, 101, 109, 135, 139, 241
   Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 524
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 27
   Lange and Falkbeer, Paul Morphy Sketch, page 193
   Lawson, Paul Morphy, page 134
   Renette and Zavatarelli, Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle, page 370
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 114
Periodicals
   [BLL], no. 2413, 18 July 1868, page 10
   [CMNY], vol. 3, no. 7, July 1859, page 232
   [CPM], vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1865, page 22
   [CPQC], vol. 2, no. 1, Feb. 1870, page 11
   [CPQC], vol. 2, no. 2, Apr. 1870, page 61
   [DCJ], vol. 8, no. 67, Oct. 1875, page 438
   [Era], vol. 21, no. 1080, 5 June 1859, page 5
   [ILN], vol. 33, no. 941, 16 Oct. 1858, page 365
   [ISDN], 5 Sep. 1874
   [NR], vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1860, page 30
   [NR], vol. 2, no. 2, Feb. 1861, page 60
   [NR], vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 1862, page 7
   [NYC], 13 Nov. 1858
   [PF], vol. 1, no. 7, Mar. 1865, page 353
   [Sph], vol. 2, no. 10, 1 Oct. 1866, page 154
   [Str], vol. 1, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1867, page 6
Web
   Sarah.  [Café de la Régence II]
   Sarah.  [The Living Age, Vol.63, No.802, 8 Oct., 1859], page 69
   Sarah.  [Paul Goes to France]
   Sarah.  [Scientific American, Vol.14, No.8, 30 Oct., 1858]
   Sericano, C.  [Gerolamo Tassinari]

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

Tassinari, G. - Baucher, H. 1854         (s)     1   -   0
Morphy, P.C. - Baucher, H. 1858         (c)     2   -   0
Wayte, W. - Baucher, H. 1869         (c)     6   -   4
Bird, H.E. - Baucher, H. 1873         (c)     0.5   -   0.5


Player information updated: 22 Jul. 2022