Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian-American chess player, born in Prague in 1836. He died in 1900.
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Wilhelm Steinitz is widely regarded as one of the defining figures of chess in his era, and remains the benchmark against which later competitors are measured.
The public record credits Wilhelm Steinitz with 1 recorded honour. Chess is sport as pure calculation, and its champions are studied like composers, move by move, decades after they played.
Achievements
- world chess champion
