Rousseau, Eugène




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1841  22  2361 (63) 32
1842  26  2373 (62) 0
1843  26  2384 (53) 38
1844  28  2366 (56) 3
1845  38  2344 (53) 31
1846  41  2334 (62) 0
1847  42  2324 (67) 0
1848  43  2313 (69) 0
1849  56  2303 (68) 20
1850  64  2288 (68) 35
1851  70  2276 (77) 0
1852  70  2264 (84) 0
1853  80  2252 (89) 0
1854  86  2240 (94) 0
1855  94  2228 (97) 0
1856  106  2216 (99) 0
1857  112  2204 (101) 0
1858  122  2192 (102) 0
1859  133  2180 (102) 0
1860  144  2168 (102) 0
1861  151  2156 (101) 0
1862  157  2144 (99) 0
1863  155  2132 (97) 0
1864  170  2120 (94) 0
1865  181  2108 (89) 0
1866  205  2096 (84) 0
1867  203  2085 (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
   [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: 6 Mar. 2021