Legacy
Dubois was Italy's best player during the 1850s and 1860s. He has been retrospectively rated at 2642 in January 1857 by the Chessmetrics web-site. According to chessmetrcis, Dubois was ranked no.1 of the world between March 1856 and August 1858, until he was replaced by Paul Morphy. He may well have been a stronger player under the Italian rules of the game.
He was very influential within the world of Italian chess and, not surprisingly, chess politics played a big part in his later life. In addition he wrote many articles on the openings and a line of the Vienna, the Dubois Variation of the Hamppe-Muzio Gambit (C25), is attributed to him as well as the Dubois-Reti Defence in the Scotch Gambit (C44). However he was not a keen fan of the French and commented 'This is the most monotonous and annoying play you can imagine - rarely it gives rise to combinations of some interest'. Dubois died on January 15, 1899.
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