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Rousseau, Eugène

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1841  25  2358 (63) 32 1842  27  2369 (62) 0 1843  28  2381 (53) 38 1844  29  2362 (56) 3 1845  41  2340 (53) 31 1846  48  2330 (62) 0 1847  48  2321 (67) 0 1848  51  2311 (69) 0 1849  64  2301 (68) 20 1850  72  2287 (68) 35 1851  78  2275 (77) 0 1852  75  2263 (84) 0 1853  84  2252 (89) 0 1854  89  2240 (94) 0 1855  96  2229 (97) 0 1856  109  2217 (99) 0 1857  118  2205 (101) 0 1858  132  2194 (102) 0 1859  142  2182 (102) 0 1860  153  2170 (102) 0 1861  167  2159 (101) 0 1862  177  2147 (99) 0 1863  181  2136 (97) 0 1864  195  2124 (94) 0 1865  208  2112 (89) 0 1866  233  2101 (84) 0 1867  229  2089 (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