Biography of Wilhelm Steinitsa

Alexander Kostenyuk shows the best parties to Wilhelm Steinitsa. The style in X, when the Steinitsa only appeared on the chess stage, he played aggressive chess in a romantic gambit style with a large number of victims. Later, he forever changed the world of chess, opening a new, positional style of play. He violently defended his ideas, having achieved their recognition by many other masters.

In the year, already being the strongest chess player of the world, Steinitsa began to apply his theories behind the board. He revealed many elements of the positional game that maintains its meaning today: taking into account the features of the pedestrian structure, the advantage of a pair of elephants, the creation and use of horse outposts and the accumulation of small pluses. Let us give an early example of the stanita positional ideas, a party where he broke the pawns of the enrsal fervor of Adolf Andersen, accumulated a number of positional pluses, and then used the advantage in space to maneuver faster compared to his opponent and, finally, to turn the position of a stained chess of the stanitsa at the age of 12, but began to perceive the game only after his own after his own.

twenty years. Let us give a brilliant attack of those times - the victims and combinations strikes follow one after another in order to clear the path of incredibly active queen and stained horses: success in the Vienna championship in the year gave Staynitsa the right to represent Austria at the tournament in London in the year. Having debuted in international competitions, he took sixth place and immediately after the tournament called Serafino Dubois in London 5th place for the match.

Staynitz defeated Dubois with a score of 5. After this success, he decided to become a professional chess player and moved to London. The path to the recognition of Steinitsa developed his match success by winning Joseph Blackburn, the strongest chess player in England. In the year, he won matches with the English masters of Frederick Dikon and Augustus Mongredien, and in the year - Valentin Green, with his victories, earned recognition as one of the strongest chess players in the world.

In the year, Steinitz won the match against Andersen, the winner of the prestigious tournaments in London and years. Paul Morphy, the only chess player, who was considered stronger than Andersen, left chess in the year. Before the start of the match, Staynitsa’s chances were not evaluated too high, but he defeated Andersen with the account of the Staynitsa in the year.

Photo: Wikimedia, after winning the Staynitz match, began to be considered the strongest chess player in the world. In the next party of the match, he brought to victory an attack in the spirit of modern Old Indian protection 90 years before the rethinking of the Old Indian protection in the early X: the strongest in the world in the year of Steinita won in the match of Henry Burd, and after that he infrequently played in serious competitions up to a year, when he first met in the match with Johannaya Tsuceret, who had been convincingly convincingly won a year earlier.

Andersen. Steinitsa won the match against TsUKUKTORT with a score of 7 victories, 4 draws, 1 defeat. This competition was the last where Staynitsa played in the "old" style of aggressive attacks and romantic victims. At the tournament in Vienna in the year, Steinitsa showed his new positional style, dividing first place with Blackburn, ahead of Anderssen, Samuel Rosenthal, Louis Paulsen and Burd.

In an additional match, he won Blackburn and won the first prize. At the end of the tournament, he won 14 consecutive parties, and this historical victorious series, which lasted 25 parties, ended only at the Vienna tournament in the year. In the years, between these two performances, Staynizh returned to the board in the official competition only once, having won the match against Blackburn with a score of the year.

Steinitsa concentrated on a career as a journalist, becoming the editor of the chess department in the sports newspaper Field. In many articles, for this publication, he waged a polemic with Tsuckertort, who answered him on the pages of his own magazine.

Steinitsa in x. Photo: Wikimedia Steinitsa successfully returned to the game in the tournament in Vienna in the year, dividing first place with the vinator, ahead of James Mazon, Zuckertort, Blackburn, Paulsen, Mikhail Chigorin and others. At the end of the year, he went to the United States of America, where he won two matches with Alexander Sellman and already won the Cuba champion, Selso Golmeio in the year.

In the year, Steinitz returned to London to play in a tournament where he took second place after Tsuckertort. This victory and rare performances by Steinitsa in international tournaments gave Tsuckertort the right to call the strongest chess player in the world. Steinitsa finally moved to the United States, continued in absentia disputes with Tsuckertort and other adherents of the "old" school in newspapers and magazines.

After long negotiations, Steinitsa and Tsuckertort agreed on the conditions of the match. The first official world champion Match Staynitsa and Tsuckertorta in the year was the first to officially play the title of world champion. It was a match until ten victories. Staynitsa terribly began the competition, and after five parties, Tsuckertort was a leader with a score then Fortune turned degrees, and already won several parties in a row.The final score of the match - the results of the match put an end to the disputes about the strongest chess player of that time, and the Steinitsa was recognized as the first official world champion.

Staynitsa on the right against Tsuckertort on the left of the year. In the year, Steinitsa fought in a match with Chigorin one of the strongest chess players of that time. In the match sponsored by the Gavana, the Staynitsa, we again won with an account a party where Staynitsa combined positional and tactical motifs to create a beautiful attack: in the year, Staynitsa again defended his title - in a match against Isidor Gunsberg, who took third place in the tournament in New York in the year.

Weiss. Steinitz defeated Gunsberg with a score of Steinitsa in the year of Chigorin in a new match. This time the difference in the account was smaller, but the result was the same: Staynitsa won with the account of Steinitsa did not know the defeats in the match for 30 years - a truly incredible achievement! But in the year, Staynitsa called a beginner for the match, who had not yet experienced good luck in the match game - Emanuel Lasker.

He has already achieved certain tournament successes, but never met the board either with Chigorin or with Sigbert Tarrash by the recognized 2nd and 3rd chess players of the world at that time. It is worth noting that at the beginning of X Tarrash rejected the challenges for matches from Lasker and Steinitsa. Steinitsa is sitting on the right in the chess club of New Orleans in the year.

It is known that Staynitsa said that he should easily win. The defeat ended the summer victorious match series and deprived the steam of the world title. After losing the title, after the defeat in the match with Lasker, Stetsnitsa performed in tournaments more often than youth. He took first place in the tournament of the year in New York and received a prize for beauty at the Gastings tournament in the year this party against Kurt Bardeben is considered the best masterpiece of Steinitsa.

In the year at the tournament in St. Petersburg, he took the second place behind Lasker, but ahead of Chigorin and Harry Pilsbury. At the end - early year, Lasker and Steinitsa played in Moscow a match -rare for the world championship. Lasker won even more convincing than in the first match, with the score of Steinitsa continued to play until the very end, but its results began to decline markedly.

He died in the year at the age of 64 as much as the fields on the chessboard. The legacy of the chess legacy of the Steinitsa is huge. It is difficult to compare this success with the successes of modern chess players, because now matches are held much less often than tournaments. Staynitsa was also a famous writer and publicist. His disputes with Tsuckertort, Chigorin and other opponents in chess seal are an important part of the history of chess.

His life and parties are studied in books, videos and articles. Of course, the theory of positional and strategic game has become the biggest contribution to the steam to the development of chess. Staynitsa memorial plate in Prague. He was a pioneer and one of the deepest seekers of the chess truth remained hidden from his contemporaries. " The best party.