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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Wilhelm Steinitz, Johann Baptist Allgaier, Erich Eliskases, Carl Schlechter, Richard Reti, Ernst Grunfeld, Karl Robatsch, Albert Salomon von Rothschild, Hans Muller, Johann Berger, Boris Kosti, Albert Becker, Ignatz Kolisch, Rudolf Spielmann, Hans Kmoch, Oscar Chajes, Adolf Albin, Ivo Donev, Tunc Hamarat, Max Weiss, Josef Krejcik, Ernst Falkbeer, Philipp Meitner, Heinrich Wolf, Andreas Duckstein, Siegfried Reginald Wolf, Vincent Grimm, Georg Marco, Rudolf Palme, Rudolf Pitschak, Julius Perlis, Alexander Wittek, Samuel Gold, Hugo Fahndrich, Baldur Honlinger, Josef Lokvenc, Siegmund Beutum, Rudolph Pokorny, Jakob Rosanes, Berthold Englisch, Alexander Halprin, Johann Hermann Bauer, Adolf Zinkl, Bernhard Fleissig, Augustin Neumann, Carl Hamppe, Eduard Glass, Vincenz Hruby, Karl Pitschel, Paula Wolf-Kalmar, Leopold Lowy, Jr., Wolfgang Weil, Max Fleissig, Marcus Kann, Karl Poschauko, Ernest Klein, Salome Reischer, David Podhorzer, Adolf Schwarz, Jacques Schwarz, Arthur Kaufmann, Oscar Gelbfuhs, Simon Rubinstein, Gert Schnider, Eduard Jenay, Nikolaus Stanec, Leopold Lowy, Sr., Gisela Harum. Excerpt: Wilhelm (later William) Steinitz (Prague, May 17, 1836 - August 12, 1900) was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier. Steinitz lost his title to Emanuel Lasker in 1894 and also lost a rematch in 1897. Statistical rating systems give Steinitz a rather low ranking among world champions, mainly because he took several long breaks from competitive play. However, an analysis based on one of these rating systems shows that he was one of the most dominant players in the history of the game. Although Steinitz became "world number one" by winning in the all-out atta...
