Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz · Sports
First undisputed World Chess Champion (1886) and father of the modern positional school of chess.
1836, Prague, Bohemia (Austrian Empire) — 1900, New York City, United States
Bohemia · Austria · United Kingdom · United States
Wilhelm Steinitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — First undisputed World Chess Champion (1886) and father of the modern positional school of chess.
Steinitz became the first undisputed World Chess Champion in 1886 and founded the modern positional (scientific) school, replacing romantic all-out attack with the principled accumulation of small advantages. He was born into a poor Jewish family in the Prague ghetto, one of many children of a Jewish hardware merchant. He held the world title until 1894.
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First undisputed World Chess Champion (1886) and father of the modern positional school of chess.
Source: https://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Champions.html
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