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Rousseau, Eugène

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1841  25  2364 (63) 32 1842  27  2376 (62) 0 1843  28  2387 (53) 38 1844  30  2368 (56) 3 1845  41  2346 (53) 31 1846  47  2336 (62) 0 1847  47  2327 (67) 0 1848  51  2317 (69) 0 1849  63  2307 (68) 20 1850  71  2292 (68) 35 1851  77  2280 (77) 0 1852  74  2269 (84) 0 1853  83  2257 (89) 0 1854  90  2245 (94) 0 1855  96  2233 (97) 0 1856  110  2222 (99) 0 1857  121  2210 (101) 0 1858  135  2198 (102) 0 1859  145  2187 (102) 0 1860  155  2175 (102) 0 1861  170  2163 (101) 0 1862  182  2151 (99) 0 1863  186  2140 (97) 0 1864  199  2128 (94) 0 1865  211  2116 (89) 0 1866  236  2104 (84) 0 1867  232  2093 (77) 22 Rating table notes

Biographical data Name: Rousseau, Eugène   Born: 13 Nov. 1805 Died: 24 Feb. 1877   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'. His French Wikipedia page has birth date 13-11-1805 and death date 24-02-1877.   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]    [Eugène Rousseau (joueur d'échecs)]

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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

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Player information updated: 11 Jan. 2026