CHESS PLAYER

Carl Schlechter

1874 - 1918

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Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Schlechter is the 58th most popular chess player (down from 35th in 2019), the 468th most popular biography from Austria (down from 412th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Carl Schlechter ranks 58 out of 461. Before him are Yuri Averbakh, Mir Sultan Khan, Henry Bird, Lajos Portisch, Andor Lilienthal, and Dawid Janowski. After him are Géza Maróczy, Pedro Damiano, Salo Flohr, Mark Taimanov, Legall de Kermeur, and Joseph Henry Blackburne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Carl Schlechter ranks 70. Before him are Martin Lowry, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, René-Louis Baire, Lina Cavalieri, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and István Bethlen. After him are Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Elsa Beskow, Mary Ann Bevan, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Isaac Carasso, and Avgustyn Voloshyn. Among people deceased in 1918, Carl Schlechter ranks 75. Before him are Roman Malinovsky, George Mary Searle, Charles W. Fairbanks, Hermann von Eichhorn, Radko Dimitriev, and Alexey Kaledin. After him are Fritz von Below, Konstantin Jireček, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Olga Rozanova, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, and Noman Çelebicihan.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Carl Schlechter ranks 468 out of 1,424. Before him are Oscar Homolka (1898), Agnes of Austria (1281), Karl Nehammer (1972), Elisabeth von Gutmann (1875), Carlo Abarth (1908), and Hans Krása (1899). After him are Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715), Franz von Liszt (1851), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), Gustav Ucicky (1899), Franz Binder (1911), and Herbert Bayer (1900).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Austria

Among chess players born in Austria, Carl Schlechter ranks 1. After him are Rudolf Spielmann (1883), Erich Eliskases (1913), Ernst Grünfeld (1893), Johann Berger (1845), Eva Moser (1982), and Markus Ragger (1988).

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