Jules Arnous de Rivière
Jules Arnous de Rivière (May 4th 1830 with Nantes, France - September 11th 1905 with Paris) was one of best the players of failures French of the 19th century.
In 1858, it meets Paul Morphy in Paris and argument against him a great number of friendly parts to the Café of Regency.
During following years, it gains several meetings, thus in 1860 in London by +5-2 against Thomas W. Barnes, the same year in Paris by +7-1 against the French Paul Journoud and in 1867 in Paris by 2:0 against the Hungarian Löwenthal. In 1883, it loses accuracy in Paris against Mikhail Tchigorine by +4-5.
In 1867, during the 2nd World Fair of Paris, a tournament bringing together is organized the best players of failures of the time and Rivière is classified sixth there.
Parallel to this tournament, first place with the Coffee of Regency has: women play failures as a public. On this occasion, Rivière disputes with Neumann a part with the blind man against famous ladies who consulted each other: the Murat princess, the duchess of Tremoille, the marshal's wife Renault countess of Midsummer's Day of Tremoille and the marchioness of Colbert-Chabannais. The ladies gained.
According to an estimate published by Chessworld, its best Classement Elo would be of: 2563, reached in August 1883.
River also published on the failures as author and journalist. It made appear the review the Regency devoted to the failures.