Urusov, Sergey




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1853  14  2487 (77) 11
1854  11  2496 (71) 25
1855  11  2506 (75) 0
1856  10  2515 (76) 0
1857  11  2525 (75) 0
1858  12  2535 (70) 0
1859  12  2545 (62) 49
1860  13  2539 (68) 0
1861  14  2533 (71) 0
1862  16  2527 (72) 4
1863  16  2514 (77) 0
1864  15  2501 (81) 0
1865  16  2487 (83) 0
1866  20  2474 (83) 5
1867  28  2446 (91) 0
1868  40  2419 (97) 0
1869  50  2392 (103) 1

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Urusov, Sergey Semenovich  
Born: 3 Aug. 1827
Died: 2 Dec. 1897
 
Notes:
Feenstra Kuiper has birth 3 April. Gaige has birth 3 August. The name is spelled in many different ways, e.g. 'Owroussow' in Bell's Life in London (15 Dec. 1866, p.9).
 
References
Books
   Cornil, Historique des revues francophones, page 31
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 135
   Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 39
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 436
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 378
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 170, 247, 368
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 437
   Renette and Zavatarelli, Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle, page 117
   Wade, Soviet Chess, page 17
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 195
Periodicals
   [BLL], no. 2330, 15 Dec. 1866, page 9
   [CP], vol. 4, no. 2, Aug. 1853, page 64
   [CPC], vol. 13, no. 3, Mar. 1852, page 94
   [CW], vol. 2, no. 4, June 1866, page 115
   [Era], vol. 28, no. 1458, 2 Sep. 1866, page 5
   [ILN], vol. 20, no. 547, 28 Feb. 1852, page 179
   [ILN], vol. 30, no. 866, 27 June 1857, page 640
   [ILN], vol. 40, no. 1144, 17 May 1862, page 513
Web
   Grekov, N.I.  [Old Moscow Chess]
   Harding, Tim.  [The Eternal Appeal of the Urusov Gambit]
   Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]
   Winter, Edward.  [CN 3667. Tolstoy and chess]
   Winter, Edward.  [Tolstoy and Chess]

Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)

Petrov, A.D. - Urusov, S.S. 1853         (c)     3   -   1
Urusov, S.S. - Shumov, I.S. 1853         (f)     4   -   3
von Jaenisch, C.F.A. - Urusov, S.S. 1854         (f)     2   -   2
Urusov, S.S. - Shumov, I.S. 1854         (f)     12   -   9
Urusov, S.S. - Shumov, I.S. 1859 (1)         (f)     8.5   -   4.5
Petrov, A.D. - Urusov, S.S. 1859         (f)     13.5   -   7.5
Urusov, S.S. - Shumov, I.S. 1859 (2)         (f)     6.5   -   2.5
Urusov, S.S. - Mikhailov, V.M. 1859         (f)     5   -   1
Urusov, S.S. - Kozlianinov, N.I. 1859         (f)     1   -   0
Kolisch, I. - Urusov, S.S. 1862         (f)     2   -   2
Urusov, S.S. - Hirschfeld, P.M. 1866         (c)     3   -   2
Amelung, F.L. - Urusov, S.S. 1869         (c)     1   -   0


Player information updated: 3 Apr. 2022