Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz (May 14th 1836 with Prague, Empire of Austria - August 12th 1900 with New York) is a player of failures born Autrichien and naturalized American in 1888 (on this occasion it will change officially his first name into William ). He is the first world champion of the failures. He has, the first, studied scientifically the set of failures to release the rules of strategies from them. For this reason, he is regarded as the father of the modern failures.
Biography
He looked further into the theses of Philidor as for the Pion S and their structures. He came from there to regard the set of failures as an activity lending itself to a scientific study. Basing itself on its studies, he became a specialist in the profits of pawns which he finally transformed into victory.He began his career échiquéenne in Europe, then expatria with the the United States in 1883 to found there the Magazine The International Chess Magazine . During several years, it exposed the fruit of its research to it. In spite of an unquestionable rigor, it made assertions which the experiment refuted. For example, he regarded the king as being a powerful offensive part. Today, this assertion is in general false.
He was the first official world champion of failures in 1886. At that time, the champion chose his challenger and a match in several parts took place. It gave up its title in 1894 with Emanuel Lasker.
Its study and its play marked the end of the style of the play “attacks with excess” which did not comply with the healthy strategic rules. Its defensive play was often higher than that of the players who sought a blazing attack of chechmate actively.
See too
Source
- Gedeon Barcza, Laszlo Alfody and Jeno Kapu, World champions. De Morphy with Alekhine , Volume 1, Grasset and Fasquelle, 1985. ISBN 224633411X
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