Baucher, Henri




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1854  114  2051 (142) 1
1855  126  2060 (140) 0
1856  139  2069 (138) 0
1857  147  2078 (135) 0
1858  153  2087 (132) 2
1859  163  2100 (130) 0
1860  161  2113 (127) 0
1861  167  2126 (124) 0
1862  155  2139 (121) 0
1863  145  2152 (118) 0
1864  146  2165 (113) 0
1865  141  2178 (109) 0
1866  142  2191 (104) 0
1867  133  2204 (98) 0
1868  119  2217 (91) 0
1869  111  2231 (83) 10
1870  113  2225 (91) 0
1871  113  2220 (98) 0
1872  120  2214 (104) 0
1873  129  2209 (109) 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
   [Era], vol. 21, no. 1080, 5 June 1859, page 5
   [ILN], vol. 33, no. 941, 16 Oct. 1858, page 365
   [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: 6 Mar. 2021