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Horatio Caro

1862 - 1920

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Horatio Caro (5 July 1862 – 15 December 1920) was an English-German chess player, of world-class Master strength for about a decade, from the late 1880s to the late 1890s, a frequent winner of significant German events. He was a regular competitor for 30 years in Master events. Caro is principally known as the co-inventor of the Caro–Kann Defence, a heretofore virtually unknown opening variation, which he analyzed, published, and played from the mid 1880s. Caro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but spent most of his chess career in Berlin, Germany, having moved there when he was two years old. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horatio Caro is the 167th most popular chess player (down from 140th in 2019), the 4,225th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,768th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Horatio Caro ranks 167 out of 461. Before him are Gedeon Barcza, Lev Alburt, István Bilek, Milunka Lazarević, Kira Zvorykina, and Bernhard Horwitz. After him are Artur Yusupov, Petar Trifunović, Vladimir Tukmakov, Florin Gheorghiu, Sergey Karjakin, and Esteban Canal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Horatio Caro ranks 138. Before him are Henry Slocum, Andrés Héctor Carvallo, Vladimir Burtsev, Concepción Aleixandre, Antoni Lange, and Christopher Cradock. After him are M. R. James, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, John R. Commons, Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, Adolf Bartels, and Júlia Lopes de Almeida. Among people deceased in 1920, Horatio Caro ranks 113. Before him are Ion Dragoumis, William Dean Howells, Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez, Otto Bütschli, Georgios Papasideris, and Hermann Oldenberg. After him are Mary Katharine Brandegee, Albert Zürner, Robert Harron, Charles Lapworth, Alberto Nepomuceno, and Federigo Tozzi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Horatio Caro ranks 4,226 out of 8,785. Before him are Roland Orzabal (1961), William Warham (1450), Ray Wilson (1934), Richard Gunn (1871), Florence Pugh (1996), and Norman Smith (1923). After him are Samuel Palmer (1805), Richard Price (1723), Henry Litolff (1818), Neil Bartlett (1932), George Rodger (1908), and Peter Davison (1951).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Horatio Caro ranks 8. Before him are Alexander McDonnell (1798), Nigel Short (1965), Henry Bird (1830), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), and Fred Yates (1884). After him are Amos Burn (1848), Jonathan Penrose (1933), John Owen (1827), John Nunn (1955), Tony Miles (1955), and Harry Golombek (1911).

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