Rousseau, Eugène




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1841  25  2357 (63) 32
1842  27  2369 (62) 0
1843  28  2380 (53) 38
1844  29  2362 (56) 3
1845  41  2340 (53) 31
1846  48  2330 (62) 0
1847  48  2320 (67) 0
1848  51  2311 (69) 0
1849  64  2301 (68) 20
1850  72  2287 (68) 35
1851  79  2275 (77) 0
1852  76  2263 (84) 0
1853  84  2252 (89) 0
1854  88  2240 (94) 0
1855  97  2228 (97) 0
1856  110  2217 (99) 0
1857  118  2205 (101) 0
1858  132  2193 (102) 0
1859  141  2182 (102) 0
1860  153  2170 (102) 0
1861  165  2158 (101) 0
1862  175  2147 (99) 0
1863  180  2135 (97) 0
1864  195  2123 (94) 0
1865  206  2111 (89) 0
1866  226  2100 (84) 0
1867  226  2088 (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