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Wilhelm Steinitz

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Wilhelm Steinitz

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Austrian-American chess player (1836–1900)

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Wilhelm Steinitz was a male chess player and composer who held the title of world chess champion. Born in Prague, he was a citizen of the Austrian Empire, Cisleithania, and the United States. He received his education at TU Wien and resided in New York City, where he died in 1900 of a myocardial infarction.

Steinitz wrote in English and is credited with five works. His life and career have been documented in sources including Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, and the Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich.

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Person · Open Library

Works
5

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1909-08-25
Active to
1988-04-21

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,382x

  2. Many-body physics with ultracold gases

    · 2008 · cited 7,097x

  3. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,794x

  4. Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials

    · 2010 · cited 5,441x

  5. Analysis of nanoparticle delivery to tumours

    · 2016 · cited 4,596x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
William
Family name
Steinitz
Gender
male
Citizenship
Cisleithania
Place of birth
Prague
Place of death
New York City
Educated at
TU Wien
Languages spoken
English language
Award
world chess champion
Field of work
chess
Sport
chess
Country for sport
Austria–Hungary
Image
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Residence
New York City
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Wilhelm Steinitz
date of birth
1837-05-18
date of death
1900-08-12
cause of death
myocardial infarction
manner of death
natural causes
name in native language
Wilhelm Steinitz
writing language
English language
birth name
Wilhelm Steinitz
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Encyclopedic overview

William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and chess theoretician.

When discussing chess history from the 1850s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz could be effectively considered the champion from an earlier time, perhaps as early as 1866. Steinitz lost his title to Emanuel Lasker in 1894, and lost a rematch in 1896–97.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wilhelm Steinitz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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