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Rousseau, Eugène

Ratings Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games  1841  26  2361 (63) 32 1842  28  2372 (62) 0 1843  30  2384 (53) 38 1844  30  2365 (56) 3 1845  41  2343 (53) 31 1846  48  2333 (62) 0 1847  49  2323 (67) 0 1848  51  2313 (69) 0 1849  63  2303 (68) 20 1850  71  2289 (68) 35 1851  77  2277 (77) 0 1852  74  2266 (84) 0 1853  83  2254 (89) 0 1854  90  2242 (94) 0 1855  97  2230 (97) 0 1856  111  2219 (99) 0 1857  121  2207 (101) 0 1858  135  2195 (102) 0 1859  145  2184 (102) 0 1860  156  2172 (102) 0 1861  169  2160 (101) 0 1862  182  2148 (99) 0 1863  186  2137 (97) 0 1864  199  2125 (94) 0 1865  211  2113 (89) 0 1866  236  2101 (84) 0 1867  233  2090 (77) 22 Rating table notes

Biographical data Name: Rousseau, Eugène   Born: 13 Nov. 1805 Died: 24 Feb. 1877   Notes: Gaige gives birth year as 'c1810', as do Hooper and Whyld, who give death year as 'c1870'. Zavatarelli gives birth year as 1805 and death 'after 1869'. His French Wikipedia page has birth date 13-11-1805 and death date 24-02-1877.   References Books    Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 35    Féry d'Esclands, Congrès des Échecs 1867, page lxii    Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 416    Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 363    Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 280    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 287    Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 345    Zavatarelli, Ignatz Kolisch, page 243 Periodicals    [BLL], 12 July 1840, page 2    [DSZ], vol. 2, 1847, page 39    [Pal], vol. 1, no. 6, 15 May 1842, page 248    [Pal], vol. 3, no. 6, 15 June 1843, page 283    [Pal], vol. 4, no. 12, 15 Dec. 1844, page 557    [Pal], vol. 5, no. 9, 15 Sep. 1845, page 403    [Str], vol. 1, no. 7, 15 July 1867, page 149 Web    Sarah.  [Paul Morphy's Contenders]    Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]    Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]    Winter, Edward.  [CN 4259. Staunton v Saint Amant]    [Eugène Rousseau (joueur d'échecs)]

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

Rousseau, E. - Schulten, J.W. 1841 (1)	(c)	7	-	4
Rousseau, E. - Schulten, J.W. 1841 (2)	(f)	10	-	11
Oliver, B.L. - Rousseau, E. 1843	(c)	5.5	-	5.5
de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. - Rousseau, E. 1843	(c)	4.5	-	1.5
Rousseau, E. - Schulten, J.W. 1843	(c)	13	-	8
Walker, G. (1) - Rousseau, E. 1844	(c)	0.5	-	0.5
Perigal, G. - Rousseau, E. 1844	(c)	1	-	1
Stanley, C.H. - Rousseau, E. 1845	(f)	19	-	12
Morphy, P.C. - Rousseau, E. 1849	(c)	18	-	2
Lowenthal, J.J. - Rousseau, E. 1850	(c)	5	-	0
Morphy, P.C. - Rousseau, E. 1850	(c)	27	-	3

Tournament data

Paris 1867 (1)

International Chess Congress - Grand Tournament

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Player information updated: 11 Jan. 2026