Isidor Gunsberg
Isidor Gunsberg · Sports
World Chess Championship challenger against Steinitz (1891)
1854, Pest (Budapest), Hungary — 1930, London, England
Hungary · United Kingdom
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Gunsberg was among the world's leading chess players in the late 1880s and early 1890s, narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz in New York. He began by secretly operating the 'Mephisto' chess automaton before establishing himself as a professional. He was an English chess master of Hungarian Jewish origin who settled in London.
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World Chess Championship challenger against Steinitz (1891)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish world chess championship runners-up
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