Johannes Zukertort
Johannes Zukertort · Sports
Contested the first official World Chess Championship against Steinitz (1886)
1842, Lublin, Poland (then Russian Empire) — 1888, London, England
Germany · England
Johannes Zukertort is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Contested the first official World Chess Championship against Steinitz (1886)
Zukertort was one of the world's leading chess masters of the 1870s and 1880s, and in 1886 he contested the first official World Chess Championship match, losing to Wilhelm Steinitz. He was of Jewish descent through his father, who had been born Jewish before converting to Christianity.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
Contested the first official World Chess Championship against Steinitz (1886)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews among the 64 strongest chess players (Warriors of the Mind, 1989)
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