Jenay, Eduard




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1846  23  2464 (57) 75
1847  20  2453 (64) 0
1848  20  2442 (67) 0
1849  29  2431 (66) 0
1850  31  2420 (62) 5
1851  38  2413 (60) 8
1852  41  2393 (65) 2
1853  48  2380 (70) 0
1854  52  2367 (73) 0
1855  54  2355 (73) 2
1856  61  2347 (73) 0
1857  63  2340 (71) 9
1858  59  2343 (75) 0
1859  64  2347 (77) 0
1860  67  2351 (77) 4
1861  73  2344 (81) 0
1862  74  2337 (84) 0
1863  73  2330 (85) 0
1864  75  2323 (85) 0
1865  74  2316 (84) 0
1866  75  2309 (81) 0
1867  79  2302 (77) 0
1868  84  2295 (70) 8
1869  80  2300 (70) 0
1870  80  2305 (66) 0
1871  79  2310 (58) 34
1872  89  2300 (61) 24

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Jenay, Eduard  
   Also known as: de Jenay; Jeney
Born: 1812
Died: 1880
 
Notes:
Name given as 'Jené' in the Illustrated London News of 4 June 1859 (p.550), and as 'Jeney' in the Chess Player's Chronicle of Jan. 1861 (p.27), and as 'von Jenay' in the Sunday Times of 21 June 1857 (supplement, p.4) and the Chess Player's Magazine of Aug. 1864 (p.251). Peter Anderberg, in an article in the joural 'Caissa', gives his age as 67 on 9 Mar. 1880, which would mean that he was born between 10-03-1812 and 9-03-1813, and Harding gives his dates as '1812/1813 - 1880'. However, Zavatarelli gives his dates as 'about 1820-1880'.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 28
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 194
   Harding, Steinitz in London, page 17, 18, 376
   Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 7, 10
Periodicals
   [BLL], 25 Oct. 1846, page 3
   [BLL], 27 Feb. 1853, page 8
   [Cai], vol. 3, no. 1, 2018, page 11
   [CPC], vol. 7, no. 12, Dec. 1846, page 404
   [CPC], vol. 11, no. 10, Oct. 1850, page 289
   [CPC], vol. 3, no. 25, Jan. 1861, page 27
   [CPM], vol. 1, no. 6, Dec. 1863, page 165
   [CPM], vol. 2, no. 8, Aug. 1864, page 251
   [CPM], vol. 1, no. 2, Feb. 1865, page 38
   [CPQC], vol. 1, no. 8, Aug. 1869, page 243
   [DSZ], vol. 2, 1847, page 40
   [Era], vol. 19, no. 993, 4 Oct. 1857, page 14
   [Era], vol. 20, no. 1021, 18 Apr. 1858, page 7
   [Era], vol. 25, no. 1276, 8 Mar. 1863, page 5
   [Era], vol. 26, no. 1347, 17 July 1864, page 6
   [ILN], vol. 34, no. 977, 4 June 1859, page 550
   [MaSZ], vol. 1, no. 5, May 1849, page 68
   [OSZ], vol. 1, no. 2, 16 Apr. 1872, page 9
   [Reg], vol. 2, no. 8, Aug. 1850, page 227
   [Reg], vol. 3, no. 7, July 1851, page 200
   [ST], no. 1783, 21 June 1857, page supp.4
   [SZ], vol. 1, no. 2, Aug. 1846, page 37, 38
   [SZ], vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 1850, page 2
   [SZ], vol. 10, no. 2, Feb. 1855, page 75
   [SZ], vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 1859, page 26
Web
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

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

Lowenthal, J.J. - Jenay, E. 1846         (c)     38   -   30
von der Lasa, T. - Jenay, E. 1846         (c)     2.5   -   2.5
Freund (1) - Jenay, E. 1846         (s)     1   -   1
Hamppe, C. - Jenay, E. 1850         (s)     3   -   2
Anderssen (offhand) - Jenay, E. 1851         (c)     4.5   -   3.5
Szen, J. - Jenay, E. 1852         (s)     1.5   -   0.5
Hamppe, C. - Jenay, E. 1855         (s)     1.5   -   0.5
Kolisch, I. - Jenay, E. 1857         (f)     7   -   1
Steinitz, W. - Jenay, E. 1860         (f)     2   -   2

Tournament data

Vienna 1857     Vienna Tournament    
  Jenay, E. - Pilhal, E.     0 - 1    
Vienna 1868     Weiner Schachgesellschaft Tournament     38.5  /  46
Vienna 1871     Wiener Schachgesellschaft Turnier     53  /  68
Vienna 1872     Weiner Schachgesellschaft Tournament     37  /  46


Player information updated: 2 Oct. 2023