Rousseau, Eugène




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1841  24  2358 (63) 32
1842  27  2370 (62) 0
1843  28  2381 (53) 38
1844  29  2362 (56) 3
1845  41  2341 (53) 31
1846  47  2331 (62) 0
1847  48  2321 (67) 0
1848  51  2311 (69) 0
1849  64  2301 (68) 20
1850  73  2286 (68) 35
1851  79  2274 (77) 0
1852  75  2262 (84) 0
1853  87  2249 (89) 0
1854  93  2237 (94) 0
1855  99  2225 (97) 0
1856  112  2213 (99) 0
1857  120  2201 (101) 0
1858  129  2188 (102) 0
1859  142  2176 (103) 0
1860  152  2164 (102) 0
1861  166  2152 (101) 0
1862  165  2139 (100) 0
1863  165  2127 (97) 0
1864  180  2115 (94) 0
1865  189  2103 (90) 0
1866  215  2091 (84) 0
1867  210  2078 (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