CHESS PLAYER

Siegbert Tarrasch

1862 - 1934

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Siegbert Tarrasch (German pronunciation: [ˈziːɡbɐt ˈtaraʃ]; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Siegbert Tarrasch is the 24th most popular chess player (down from 23rd in 2019), the 200th most popular biography from Poland (up from 232nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Chess Player.

Siegbert Tarrasch is most famous for his chess books. He was also a chess player and a chess teacher.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 24 out of 461. Before him are Adolf Anderssen, Paul Keres, Nona Gaprindashvili, Viktor Korchnoi, Ruy López de Segura, and Samuel Reshevsky. After him are Judit Polgár, Vera Menchik, Akiba Rubinstein, Johannes Zukertort, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, and Mikhail Chigorin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 25. Before him are Helene Schjerfbeck, Nikolai Yudenich, Louis Barthou, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Henri Pirenne, and J. Bruce Ismay. After him are Prince Henry of Prussia, Daniel Swarovski, Aurel Stein, Edith Wharton, Mori Ōgai, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr. Among people deceased in 1934, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 28. Before him are Charley Patton, Louis Barthou, Marinus van der Lubbe, Alice Liddell, Edmond James de Rothschild, and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Jean Vigo, William Morris Davis, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Hans Hahn, Carl von Linde, and Gustav Ritter von Kahr.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 200 out of 1,694. Before him are Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), Daniel Libeskind (1946), Ernst Kummer (1810), Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (1770), and Stanisław Dziwisz (1939). After him are Duke Louis of Württemberg (1756), Richard Abegg (1869), Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Grzegorz Lato (1950), Ignacy Mościcki (1867), and Hermann Balck (1893).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 4. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Adolf Anderssen (1818), and Samuel Reshevsky (1911). After him are Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Szymon Winawer (1838), Edward Lasker (1885), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Valery Salov (1964).

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