Edo Historical Chess Ratings



Deschapelles, Alexandre





Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1820  2560 (112) 2
1821  2573 (108) 36
1822  2574 (111) 0
1823  2575 (113) 0
1824  2576 (115) 0
1825  2577 (116) 0
1826  2578 (117) 0
1827  2580 (117) 0
1828  2581 (117) 0
1829  2582 (117) 0
1830  2583 (116) 0
1831  2584 (114) 0
1832  2585 (113) 0
1833  2586 (110) 0
1834  2587 (108) 0
1835  2588 (104) 0
1836  2590 (100) 3
1837  2588 (100) 0
1838  2586 (100) 0
1839  2584 (99) 0
1840  2582 (97) 0
1841  2580 (95) 0
1842  2578 (91) 6
1843  2563 (96) 0
1844  2549 (100) 0
1845  2534 (103) 0
1846  2519 (106) 2

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Deschapelles, Alexandre Louis Honoré Lebreton  
Born: 7 Mar. 1780
Died: 27 Oct. 1847
 
Notes:
Walker gives his name as 'M. Guillaume Le Breton Deschapelles'. Deschapelles retired from play around either 1821 or 1824 but reappeared to play in 1836, 1841 (see Le Palamède, 2nd series, v.1, p.26, 92), 1842 and 1846. In 1841 he was the president of the Cercle des Echecs in Paris, but Général Guingret took over in 1842.
 
References
Books
   Cornil, Le Café de la Régence, page 14, 243
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 78
   Fiske, First American Chess Congress, page 37
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 91
   Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 85
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 88
   Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 105
   Murray, History of Chess, page 873
   Utterberg, De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, page 9
   Walker, Chess and Chess Players, page 366
Periodicals
   [BLL], 8 Mar. 1835, page 2
   [BLL], 28 Aug. 1836, page 2
   [BLL], 13 June 1841, page 2
   [BLL], 7 Nov. 1847, page 5
   [CPC], vol. 4, Dec. 1843, page 370
   [CPC], vol. 5, Dec. 1844, page 375
   [CPC], vol. 8, 27 Nov. 1847, page 378
   [CPC], vol. 9, Feb. 1848, page 56
   [CPC], vol. 9, Mar. 1848, page 87
   [GM], vol. 77, July 1807, page 605
   [Pal], vol. 1, 15 Dec. 1841, page 10
   [Pal], vol. 2, 15 Nov. 1842, page 211
   [Pal], vol. 3, 15 Feb. 1843, page 89
   [Pal], vol. 7, 15 Nov. 1847, page 500
   [Phil], vol. 1, Feb. 1838, page 120
Web
   Alberti, Marco A.  [Alexandre Louis Honoré Lebreton Deschapelles]
   Metzner, Paul.  [Philidor and the Café de la Régence Chess Masters]
   Sarah.  [Deschapelles]
   Sarah.  [France - Deschapelles]
   Sarah.  [State of Chess in 1838]
   Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dell'800]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Egomaniacal Prototype]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Obituaries], page 1
   Walker, G.  [Deschapelles the Chess-King (from Chess and Chess-Players)]

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

Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. - Boncourt, H.H. 1820         (c)     1   -   1      Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. gave odds of pawn and two moves
Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. - Cochrane, J. 1821         (s)     3   -   3
Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. - Lewis, W. 1821         (f)     1   -   2      Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. gave odds of pawn and move
Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. - de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. 1836         (c)     1.5   -   1.5      Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. gave odds of pawn and two moves
Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. - Guingret, P.F. 1842         (c)     0   -   1      Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. gave odds of pawn and four moves
Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. - de Saint-Amant, P.C.F. 1842         (c)     1   -   0      Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. gave odds of pawn and two moves
Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. - Schulten, J.W. 1842         (c)     3   -   2      Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. gave odds of pawn and two moves
Greville, B.J. - Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. 1846         (c)     1.5   -   0.5      Deschapelles, A.L.H.L. gave odds of pawn and two moves

Tournament data

Paris 1821     'Pools'     12  /  27