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330 STEINITZ
cngineer, he later becane a proiessional chess
player. His Est norable achievenent was ar
Ke.sken€t 1927, a twoitaee tournamcnt oi about
category 8j he won the preliminarysedion (+7=2)
ahead oi NrMzoum.s and after adding hisresults
in tbe 6nal section be cane equal second with
Niruowihch hall a poinr behind ArnknrN.. Srcinels
best victories camc h the mid 1930sr a malch
defeatof LTLTENTHAL(+3=2 1)in1935ifrrslprize
(+6:4-l) sbared wirh ELrsGsEs ahead oi sprEl
M^NN and cRtNrED in rhe Trebitsch Memorial
rournanenl. Vienna 1935r and li6i prize
( + 10:,1- 1) shared with N^rDoRF (who played /D/s
.,,.,"^) in the Hunsan.n Chanpionship 1936
Steiner played tor Hungary in the Olynpiads ol
193i, 1933, and 1935, on rhe last occsion at fiBt
board. ln r 938 hc made a tou tbrough the Far ENI
6cforc setrling in Ausrralia, {here he married
Edna Kingston, $e country-s lcading woman
player. He Non the nalional champiooships in
1945, 1951, and 1959. In 19,18, alier len years
without ioternational practie, he lnned Europe
to play in a le* rournanenE; hc took thnd prizc
,rter Forns and nAR.zA in a mi.or toumament.
Karlovt Vaq Marii.sk€ LiiaE. but had a dis
appointing result in lhe inrerzonal lournanent
Spielnann-L. S(eincr Pragrc Olynpiad 19ll Quc.ri
I d4 d5 2 c4 c6 lNr3 Nf6 .l Ncr e6 5 BB5 Nt dT 6 a3
Be7 7elll0 8Oc2Re8 9Rd]b6 l0tsd3lb7 ]L.xd5
exdi 12 0 0 h6 13 BI4 Nh5 14 Bc5 .5 15 Qc2 .4
16Bbl Nhf6 l7 Bra6 13 Ne5 bi 1914 Qh6 20 Qu
RadS 2l Bh4 a5 22 s4 b4 23 ub4 axb,1 24Ne2 Nc4
25 Brc? Rxc, 26 Brc4 drc4 27 Qg2 Bd5
28Rct R.a 29Nxd7Rxd7 10f5.3 ll bx.3 b3 l2 i\t4
Bc4 33 Rl2 Ra7 :14 Rb2 Ri2 15 R.b1 Rxb2 :16 R$2
Qa5 37QxelQrd :r3Rlr] lr2 :l9Nh5Qcl+ 40Krl
STEINITZ, WILHEI-M (1836 1900). World
Chanpion 188G9,1. Born in Prague. one ol thc
younBest sons of a largeJewnb lamily. hc went to
Vienna as a ,oung nan and attcmpted lo earn a
living as a joutualist. Afte. sinni.g the vienna
Chess Championship 1861 2 he played in his fiBt
jntcrnational toumanent- I-ondon 1862 (won by
ANDESSEN). sreinilz look sixrh place and in
medialely afterwards defeared DUBors, the lifth
prize Ninncr, in march play (+5=l 3). He
bccamc a profesional and settl€d in l-ondon.
where he Non several narches. notably againsr
BLAC0URNE (+7=2 1, 1862 3), Anderssen
(+8 6, 1866), and unD (+7=5 5, 1866). Tbe
maich against A D dersen. I arge ly characte rized by
gmbiis and 6ne tactical play, sas conducted in a
sponsmanlite nanner by borh players. Aware lhal
Anderssen, an anateur. nighl be under pre$ure
to returfl to Breslan (as he had bccn she. hc
plaredMoR.Hyand L. P^uLstN), Steinit lurned up
punctualy lor every game, even on ihe day bis
diughre.sasborn. His ltlaching style showed les
signsoftnc positionalplay he dcvclopcd latcr. Il
was the style predominating in his tine. . . . In tbis
srvle he continued to plav lor a nunber ofyeasnot
diflering in this ftspect lrom any ol his con'
tcmporaries' Em. LAsruR. AlBade! Baden 1870
Sreinit2 camc sc.ond, half apoinl alter Anderssen
ahead ofBlackbnrne, jEUMANN, L. Paulscn. and
WNAER: al London 1872 he won fi6i prize
(+?=l) ahead ol Blackburne .nd zurcRroRri
and in Sept. 18?2 hc decisively beat Zukertorr i.
natch play (+7=4 l). At thn rimc ri'w.m,Ar.
sYote: 'Mr Sleinitz mav be lairly regarded as tne
present oc.Dpanl ol the exceplional position lor
merly held by Mr Morphy'. and nuRN wrote thal
Steinnz was now probably the strongcsi livine
Slei.itz had achieved tbis pre-eminence by
neansolsuperiortactic.lslilli lerwnbinayearhis
style changed dramalically, and in his .ex1 tolrna
rent. Vicnna 18?3, mosiolhisplaywasposirional
He so.ed +18=5 2 while Btnckbume.playing30
ganes,lost 7 oI the6; bur in lccordance Nilh rhe
uDusual scoring rules these two were adjudecd io
have tied. Sleinitz *on the play-off decisively
(+2) (Including these r{o sanes steinnz ended
rhe tournanenr with a run ol16conseculilewinsi.
slrich t-. Paulscn, ,^ndcnscn. and Blackburnc
qere ea.h defeakJ ttrice.) Ansqerine a cores
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