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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: 40. Chapters: Austrian chess players, Wilhelm Steinitz, Johann Baptist Allgaier, Erich Eliskases, World Chess Championship 1910, Austrian Chess Championship, Carl Schlechter, Richard Reti, Vienna 1882 chess tournament, Ernst Grunfeld, Karl Robatsch, Vienna 1898 chess tournament, Salzburg 1942 chess tournament, Vienna 1873 chess tournament, Albert Salomon von Rothschild, Hans Muller, ICCF Austria, Johann Berger, Boris Kosti, Albert Becker, Ignatz Kolisch, Vienna 1908 chess tournament, Rudolf Spielmann, Hans Kmoch, Oscar Chajes, Adolf Albin, Ivo Donev, Tunc Hamarat, Max Weiss, Josef Krejcik, Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament, 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, Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament, 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 Stei...
