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Johannes Zukertort

1842 - 1888

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Johannes Hermann Zukertort (Polish: Jan Hermann Cukiertort; 7 September 1842 – 20 June 1888) was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship. Zukertort filled his relatively short life with a wide range of other achievements as a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist and political activist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Zukertort is the 28th most popular chess player (down from 26th in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Poland (up from 276th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Polish Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Johannes Zukertort ranks 28 out of 461. Before him are Ruy López de Segura, Samuel Reshevsky, Siegbert Tarrasch, Judit Polgár, Vera Menchik, and Akiba Rubinstein. After him are Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Mikhail Chigorin, Richard Réti, Miguel Najdorf, David Bronstein, and Efim Bogoljubov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Johannes Zukertort ranks 28. Before him are Okita Sōji, Ambrose Bierce, Édouard Lucas, Jean Gaston Darboux, Carl von Linde, and Giovanni Giolitti. After him are Arkhip Kuindzhi, Giovanni Boldini, Mykola Lysenko, Charles W. Alcock, Alphonse Borrelly, and Nikolaos Gyzis. Among people deceased in 1888, Johannes Zukertort ranks 15. Before him are Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Nikolay Przhevalsky, François Achille Bazaine, Anton Mauve, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Paul Langerhans. After him are Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Theodor Storm, Ascanio Sobrero, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Auguste Maquet, and Ali Rıza Efendi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johannes Zukertort ranks 255 out of 1,694. Before him are Otto von Below (1857), Hans Modrow (1928), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), and Itzhak Stern (1901). After him are Hagen Kleinert (1941), Moritz Moszkowski (1854), Nikolai Myaskovsky (1881), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Hermann Schwarz (1843), and Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Johannes Zukertort ranks 6. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Adolf Anderssen (1818), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Siegbert Tarrasch (1862), and Akiba Rubinstein (1880). After him are Miguel Najdorf (1910), Szymon Winawer (1838), Edward Lasker (1885), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Valery Salov (1964).

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