Chess Personalities

Catholic Priest and author of the first chess book published in German Neue Theorisch Praktische Answeisung zum Schachspiel published in 1795 and reprinted 7 times until 1843. He went to live in Vienna and operated the chess automation The Turk (1798-1896), when it beat Napoleon Bonaparte in 1809. He served as quartermaster accountant in the

German-born chess author and journalist who lived in South Africa and then settled in Ireland.  He was South African Champion in 1939, 1945-46, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1957, and 1959.  He was Irish Champion in 1958, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1968, and 1972.  He died in Germany.  In 1959, he was the Champion of Ireland and

One of the strongest German chess players in 1830’s. An officer. During the period 1839-40, Bilguer worked with the other members of the Berlin Pleiades to compile the first Handbuch des Schachspiels but died before the work was published. The book was finished by Tassilo von der Lasa in 1843. The author of Das Zweispringerspiel im