Rudolph Charousek
Rudolph Charousek · Sports
Chess master
1873, near Prague, Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary) — 1900, Nagytétény, Hungary
Hungary
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Rudolf Charousek was a Bohemian-born Hungarian chess master who, in a career of only about four years, rose to be one of the world's top ten players in the 1890s. He famously defeated world champion Emanuel Lasker and finished no worse than second in his tournaments before dying of tuberculosis at twenty-six. He was born near Prague to a Jewish family of modest means.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chess
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Chess master
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chess
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