Eugène Rousseau ✓ Source-based rising French chess player
Lived 1805 to 1877 · aged 71 Fame 45.7
Momentum 9.5
Languages 14
In century #15,738
Eugène Rousseau was a French chess master. He was the strongest chess player in New Orleans in the first half of the 1840s. The Rousseau Gambit is named after him.
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Lived 1805 to 1877 · aged 71
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Score breakdown Momentum 9
Historical 11
Attention shift 53
Source confidence 60
Completeness 50
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![Detail of the lithography Le Match Staunton - Saint-Amant by Alexandre Laemlein.[1] Rousseau is on the right.[2]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Eug%C3%A8ne_Rousseau._Detail_of_the_Lithography_Le_Match_Staunton_%E2%80%93_Saint-Amant%2C_19%C3%A8me_partie%2C_16_d%C3%A9cembre_1843.png/330px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Rousseau._Detail_of_the_Lithography_Le_Match_Staunton_%E2%80%93_Saint-Amant%2C_19%C3%A8me_partie%2C_16_d%C3%A9cembre_1843.png)
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