Ratings
| Year |
Rank |
Edo |
Dev. |
Games |
| 1849 |
106 |
2134 | (131) | 1 |
| 1850 |
105 |
2147 | (129) | 0 |
| 1851 |
105 |
2160 | (127) | 0 |
| 1852 |
95 |
2174 | (124) | 0 |
| 1853 |
104 |
2187 | (121) | 0 |
| 1854 |
101 |
2200 | (118) | 0 |
| 1855 |
103 |
2214 | (114) | 3 |
| 1856 |
107 |
2220 | (115) | 0 |
| 1857 |
112 |
2226 | (115) | 0 |
| 1858 |
112 |
2233 | (115) | 4 |
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |
| Name: Devinck, François-Jules |
| Born: 26 Apr. 1802 |
| Died: 20 Nov. 1878 |
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| Notes: |
| Gaige and Cornil give 'François-Jules Devinck'. Sarah gives 'François Charles Devinck'. La Régence (1849, p.164) has 'Dewinck'. Dubois, in Rivisti scacchistica italiana (1900, p.171) has 'Derinek'. |
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| References |
| Books |
| Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 18, 35, 82, 139, 141, 243 |
| Féry d'Esclands, Congrès des Échecs 1867, page lxii |
| Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 38, 525 |
| Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 91 |
| Harding, Steinitz in London, page 158 |
| Renette and Zavatarelli, Neumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle, page 264, 317 |
| Staunton, The Chess Tournament, page lii |
| Periodicals |
| [BLL], 25 Dec. 1842, page 2 |
| [BLL], 6 Apr. 1845, page 2 |
| [CMNY], vol. 4, no. 3, Mar. 1860, page 77 |
| [CPC], vol. 7, no. 6, June 1846, page 192 |
| [CW], vol. 3, no. 1, Mar. 1867, page 3 |
| [DSZ], vol. 2, 1847, page 39 |
| [Era], vol. 34, no. 1744, 25 Feb. 1872, page 4 |
| [ILN], vol. 18, no. 464, 11 Jan. 1851, page 32 |
| [MaSZ], vol. 1, no. 12, July 1850, page 185 |
| [NR], vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 1860, page 8 |
| [NR], vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 1864, page 6 |
| [Pal], vol. 1, no. 2, 15 Apr. 1836, page 73 |
| [Pal], vol. 2, no. 12, 15 Feb. 1838, page 499 |
| [Pal], vol. 5, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1845, page 30 |
| [Pal], vol. 5, no. 3, 15 Mar. 1845, page 137 |
| [Pal], vol. 5, no. 9, 15 Sep. 1845, page 403 |
| [Pal], vol. 7, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1847, page 1 |
| [Phil], vol. 1, no. 3, Feb. 1838, page 120 |
| [Reg], vol. 1, no. 6, June 1849, page 164 |
| [Reg], vol. 3, no. 2, Feb. 1851, page 36 |
| [Reg], no. 2, 15 Feb. 1856, page 36 |
| [RSI], vol. 1, no. 6, June 1900, page 171 |
| [RSI], vol. 2, no. 2, Feb. 1901, page 40 |
| [Sph], vol. 2, no. 6, 1 Aug. 1866, page 85 |
| [Str], vol. 1, no. 1, 15 Jan. 1867, page 5 |
| [SZ], vol. 5, no. 10, Oct. 1850, page 349 |
| [SZ], vol. 8, no. 10, Oct. 1853, page 319 |
| [SZ], vol. 10, no. 2, Feb. 1855, page 73 |
| Web |
| Edge, F.M. [Edge and Morphy at the Café de la Régence], page 148 |
| Sarah. [Paul Morphy's Contenders] |
| Sarah. [State of Chess in 1838] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Chess Disputes] |
| Spinrad, Jeremy P. [Collected results, 1836-1863] |
| Winter, Edward. [CN 4259. Staunton v Saint Amant] |
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