| Ratings 
 
 
  | Year | Rank | Edo | Dev. | Games |  
  | 1861 | 157 | 2186 | (106) | 8 |  
 
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |  | 
   | Name: Kushelev-Bezborodko, Grigory Alexandrovich |  | Also known as: Count Koucheleff; Vaschelew |  
   | Born: 1 Feb. 1832 |  
   | Died: 19 May 1870 |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | Name given variously as Kushelev, Kucheleff, Koucheloff, Kouchaleff, Kouscheleff, Kouscheleef, Koucheleff-Besborodko, Korecheloff Besborodko, and title as Count or 'Comte General'. Gaige gives alternate sources with date of death 19-05-1870 or 01-05-1870. |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Adams, Mikhail Chigorin, page 51, 348 |  
   | Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 101 |  
   | Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 233 |  
   | Harding, Eminent Victorian Chess Players, page 356 |  
   | Harding, Steinitz in London, page 35, 65, 377 |  
   | Renette and Zavatarelli, Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle, page 122, 373 |  
   | Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 7, 114, 117, 201, 202 |  | Periodicals |  
   | [BLL], 24 Feb. 1861, page 3 |  
   | [CMNY], vol. 4, no. 8, Aug. 1860, page 239 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 1, no. 6, June 1853, page 177 |  
   | [CPC], vol. 3, no. 29, May 1861, page 131 |  
   | [CPM], vol. 2, no. 8, Aug. 1864, page 248 |  
   | [DSZ], vol. 28, no. 1, Jan. 1873, page 15 |  
   | [DSZ], vol. 28, no. 6, June 1873, page 172 |  
   | [Era], vol. 22, no. 1121, 18 Mar. 1860, page 14 |  
   | [Era], vol. 23, no. 1161, 23 Dec. 1860, page 4 |  
   | [Era], vol. 23, no. 1166, 27 Jan. 1861, page 13 |  
   | [Era], vol. 23, no. 1169, 17 Feb. 1861, page 5 |  
   | [Era], vol. 23, no. 1170, 24 Feb. 1861, page 14 |  
   | [Era], vol. 23, no. 1173, 17 Mar. 1861, page 6 |  
   | [Era], vol. 24, no. 1225, 16 Mar. 1862, page 14 |  
   | [Era], vol. 24, no. 1233, 11 May 1862, page 5 |  
   | [Era], vol. 25, no. 1268, 11 Jan. 1863, page 14 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 22, no. 625, 4 June 1853, page 443 |  
   | [ILN], vol. 38, no. 1076, 23 Feb. 1861, page 178 |  
   | [NBSZ], vol. 5, no. 7, July 1868, page 193 |  
   | [NR], vol. 1, no. 3, Mar. 1860, page 93 |  
   | [NR], vol. 1, no. 12, Dec. 1860, page 374 |  
   | [NR], vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 1861, page 13 |  
   | [NR], vol. 3, no. 8, Aug. 1862, page 249 |  
   | [RiS], vol. 1, no. 4, Feb. 1859, page 62 |  
   | [RSI], vol. 2, no. 6, June 1901, page 170 |  
   | [Sis], vol. 5, 1861, page 51 |  
   | [Sis], vol. 8, 1864, page 200 |  
   | [Sis], vol. 3, no. 2, Feb. 1869, page 41 |  
   | [SoT], 19 Jan. 1861 |  
   | [ST], no. 1813, 17 Jan. 1858, page supp.3 |  
   | [SZ], vol. 8, no. 6, June 1853, page 178 |  
   | [SZ], vol. 14, no. 3, Mar. 1859, page 80 |  
   | [SZ], vol. 16, no. 2, Feb. 1861, page 61 |  
   | [SZ], vol. 23, no. 1, 1 Jan. 1868, page 5 |  | Web |  
   | Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863] |  
   | [The Northern Phildor - Alexander Dmitrievich Petrov] |  |  |