CHESS PLAYER

Richard Teichmann

1868 - 1925

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Richard Teichmann (24 December 1868 – 15 June 1925) was a German chess master and a chess composer. He was known as "Richard the Fifth" because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments. But in 1911 he scored a convincing win in Karlsbad, crushing Akiba Rubinstein and Carl Schlechter with the same line of the Ruy Lopez. José Raúl Capablanca called him "one of the finest players in the world". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Teichmann is the 100th most popular chess player (up from 106th in 2019). (up from 3,631st in 2019)

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Among chess players, Richard Teichmann ranks 100 out of 461. Before him are Luděk Pachman, Rudolf Charousek, Reuben Fine, Alexander Beliavsky, Jackson Showalter, and Robert Byrne. After him are Mišo Cebalo, Alexander Khalifman, Israel Albert Horowitz, Jean Dufresne, Ignatz Kolisch, and Alexander Petrov.

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Among people born in 1868, Richard Teichmann ranks 144. Before him are Frank Watson Dyson, Juventino Rosas, Meri Mangakāhia, Zhang Binglin, Patriarch Miron of Romania, and René de Saussure. After him are José Vianna da Motta, Max von Schillings, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Jonas Staugaitis, Wallace Clement Sabine, and Panagis Tsaldaris. Among people deceased in 1925, Richard Teichmann ranks 104. Before him are Magnus Enckell, Giovanni Battista Grassi, George Bellows, Alfred Perot, Francisco Guilledo, and Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics. After him are Roger de La Fresnaye, Nelson A. Miles, Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, Alexandru Marghiloman, Pablo Iglesias Posse, and Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin.

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