Rousseau, Eugène




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1841  25  2362 (63) 32
1842  27  2373 (62) 0
1843  27  2385 (53) 38
1844  29  2366 (56) 3
1845  41  2344 (53) 31
1846  47  2334 (62) 0
1847  48  2324 (67) 0
1848  51  2315 (69) 0
1849  64  2305 (68) 20
1850  72  2290 (68) 35
1851  78  2279 (77) 0
1852  74  2267 (84) 0
1853  83  2255 (89) 0
1854  87  2243 (94) 0
1855  96  2232 (97) 0
1856  109  2220 (99) 0
1857  117  2208 (101) 0
1858  131  2197 (102) 0
1859  140  2185 (102) 0
1860  150  2173 (102) 0
1861  164  2161 (101) 0
1862  171  2150 (99) 0
1863  174  2138 (97) 0
1864  187  2126 (94) 0
1865  202  2114 (89) 0
1866  220  2103 (84) 0
1867  222  2091 (77) 22

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Rousseau, Eugène  
Born: 1810
Died: 1870
 
Notes:
Gaige gives birth year as 'c1810', as do Hooper and Whyld, who give death year as 'c1870'. Zavatarelli gives birth year as 1805 and death 'after 1869'.
 
References
Books
   Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 35
   Féry d'Esclands, Congrès des Échecs 1867, page lxii
   Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 416
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 363
   Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 280
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 287
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 345
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 243
Periodicals
   [BLL], 12 July 1840, page 2
   [DSZ], vol. 2, 1847, page 39
   [Pal], vol. 1, no. 6, 15 May 1842, page 248
   [Pal], vol. 3, no. 6, 15 June 1843, page 283
   [Pal], vol. 4, no. 12, 15 Dec. 1844, page 557
   [Pal], vol. 5, no. 9, 15 Sep. 1845, page 403
   [Str], vol. 1, no. 7, 15 July 1867, page 149
Web
   Sarah.  [Paul Morphy's Contenders]
   Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]
   Winter, Edward.  [CN 4259. Staunton v Saint Amant]

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

Rousseau, E. - Schulten, J.W. 1841 (1)         (c)     7   -   4
Rousseau, E. - Schulten, J.W. 1841 (2)         (f)     10   -   11
Oliver, B.L. - Rousseau, E. 1843         (c)     5.5   -   5.5
de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. - Rousseau, E. 1843         (c)     4.5   -   1.5
Rousseau, E. - Schulten, J.W. 1843         (c)     13   -   8
Walker, G. (1) - Rousseau, E. 1844         (c)     0.5   -   0.5
Perigal, G. - Rousseau, E. 1844         (c)     1   -   1
Stanley, C.H. - Rousseau, E. 1845         (f)     19   -   12
Morphy, P.C. - Rousseau, E. 1849         (c)     18   -   2
Lowenthal, J.J. - Rousseau, E. 1850         (c)     5   -   0
Morphy, P.C. - Rousseau, E. 1850         (c)     27   -   3

Tournament data

Paris 1867 (1)     International Chess Congress - Grand Tournament     3  /  22


Player information updated: 3 Jun. 2023