Outstanding Players

Steinitz was the first official World Chess Champion and the founder of the modern chess strategy. The entire chess world remembers him not only as a great player, who has achieved the title of the World Chess Champion but also as a great thinker who has highly influenced the development of the new modern chess

American chess player, he was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909–1936, and was one of the world’s strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Marshall starts to learn chess at ten then in 1894, living in Canada, he became the champion of the Montreal Chess Club. Returning to the USA in 1899

A daughter of a Czech father and an English mother born in Moscow, and played for England. A citizen of Russia for her first World Championship, a citizen of Czechoslovakia until her marriage in 1937 with Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson, former Secretary of the British Chess Federation, and then listed as a representative of England.

US chess player, the strongest chess player of his time. Morphy’s character was already well-defined in childhood. As a schoolboy he was shy, reserved, very studious, exceptionally courteous; he shunned athletics, kept pretty much to himself. If the word introvert had been known in those days it would have fitted him perfectly. At the age

German player, author, and journalist born in Poland and died in New York. The second World Champion (1894-1921). He studied mathematics and philosophy at the Universities of Berlin, Göttingen, and Erlangen and gained the title of “Ph.D.”, he lived from 1892 to 1907 in the USA and in England for some years, where he was

Russian Master, he is regarded as the founder of Russian chess school. His first participations in a serious chess event came during the period of 1874/75 at the St Petersburg handicap tournament where he took the third place behind E. Schiffers and Schumov. He gained the fame of the strongest Russian player having won the

Deschapelles was the strongest French player in the early of the 19 century. As a French marshal, he participated in many of Napoleon’s campaigns while  wounded, he lost his right hand in the fighting against Prussians. After the battle at Waterloo he retired as a general and become a farmer. During the period of 1815-1821

British official first champion born on Valentine’s day. De Vere was taught to play chess at the age of 12 and soon became a regular visitor to the Divan. By 1862 he was too strong for Alexandre Anderssen at the odds of Knight. In 1864 he won the majority of a series of games with MacDonnel on

A Polish-born player who settled in Paris around 1890. Best results: Vienna 1898, 3rd; London 1899, 2nd; Monte Carlo 1901, 1st; Monte Carlo 1902, 3rd; Hanover 1902, 1st; Cambridge Springs 1904, 2nd; Ostende 1905, 2nd;; Barmen 1905, 5th; Atlantic city 1921, 1st. In matches, he played few times the World Champion Emanuel Lasker: he drew  2-2 in

A Spanish priest and later a bishop in Segura whose book Libro de la invención liberal y arte del juego del Axedrez was one of the first fundamental chess books in Europe, only after Pedro Damiano’s. He was born in Zafra near Badajoz, and he studied and lived in Salamanca. Ruy Lopez was considered by