Ciccolini, Alessandro




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1850  152  1712 (134) 4
1851  166  1712 (135) 0
1852  139  1712 (135) 0
1853  146  1711 (135) 0
1854  154  1711 (135) 0
1855  185  1711 (135) 0
1856  213  1711 (135) 0
1857  225  1711 (135) 0
1858  248  1711 (134) 0
1859  280  1711 (133) 0
1860  301  1710 (132) 0
1861  307  1710 (130) 0
1862  338  1710 (129) 0
1863  345  1710 (127) 0
1864  353  1710 (124) 0
1865  414  1710 (122) 0
1866  451  1710 (119) 0
1867  437  1709 (116) 0
1868  452  1709 (112) 0
1869  455  1709 (107) 0
1870  512  1709 (102) 0
1871  563  1709 (97) 0
1872  597  1709 (90) 0
1873  622  1709 (82) 11
1874  696  1683 (82) 12
1875  742  1672 (90) 0
1876  735  1661 (96) 0
1877  658  1651 (101) 3

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Ciccolini, Alessandro  
   Also known as: Alexander Pius Petrus Venantius Marquis Ciccolini
Born: 22 Oct. 1817
Died: 8 Apr. 1879
 
Notes:
I am guessing that the A. Ciccolini who played in the Netherlands in the 1870s is in fact Alessandro Ciccolini, as mentioned by Dubois in Rivista Scacchistica Italiana (Jan. 1900, p.11; Aug.-Sept. 1900, p.216). Fabrizio Zavatarelli (personal communication) has found that Alessandro Ciccolini married a Dutch woman, and has found a record of his birth and death dates in a Dutch source. He probably lived in the Netherlands from about 1859, and died in Arnhem. There were at least two earlier players named Ciccolini: Commendatore F. Ciccolini (Alessandro's father), and Cavaliere Giuseppe Ciccolini (Alessandro's uncle), and possibly a third, Teodoro Ciccolini, Marchese di Guardiagrele.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 223
   Nederlandschen Schaakbond, Nederlandschen Schaakbond, 1873, page 1
Periodicals
   [Fld], 12 Sep. 1874
   [RSI], vol. 1, no. 4, Apr. 1900, page 105
   [RSI], vol. 1, no. 5, May 1900, page 134
   [RSI], vol. 1, no. 8, Aug. 1900, page 216
   [Sis], vol. 8, 1864, page 238
   [Sis], vol. 1, 1873, page 200
   [SZ], vol. 22, no. 15, 1 Nov. 1867, page 337

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

Ciccolini, A. - Egisti, G.A. 1850         (s)     1   -   1
Dubois, S. - Ciccolini, A. 1850         (c)     2   -   0      Dubois, S. gave odds of a knight

Tournament data

The Hague 1873     1st Netherland Chess Federation Tourney     3  /  11
Amsterdam 1874     2nd Netherland Chess Federation Tourney     1  /  12
The Hague 1877     5th Netherland Chess Federation Tourney     0  /  3


Player information updated: 17 Jul. 2025