Alexander Steinitz (born 17 January 1967) is an Austrian conductor and since 2018 first Kapellmeister of the Theatre of West Pomerania. Born in Salzburg...

William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was a Bohemian-Austrian, and later American, chess player. From 1886 to 1894...

Steinitz Defence; in particular, in the Old Steinitz, White can practically force Black to give up the stronghold at e5, but in the Modern Steinitz,...

between the two leading players in the world, Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort. Steinitz won, becoming the first world champion. From 1886 to 1946...

champion Wilhelm Steinitz. The prize pool was €30,000. Grandmasters participated in the tournament, among men Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk, Bu Xiangzhi...

still play carefully. 3.d4 was favoured by Wilhelm Steinitz, and is sometimes called the Steinitz Variation, although it was known earlier. Black can...

Joseph Henry Blackburne won), and was in 9th place at Vienna 1882 (Wilhelm Steinitz and Simon Winawer won). In 1882 he was ranked 9th in the world. Wittek...

Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort seen as plausible claimants, the two played a match for the first World Championship in 1886. While Steinitz would...

Pillsbury won a match two games to one against World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz, who gave him odds of a pawn. Pillsbury's rise was meteoric, and there...

Markovian interpretation of a chess game. Starting with those of Wilhelm Steinitz, all 26,000 games played since then by chess world champions have been...

1851 and 1862, but lost matches to Paul Morphy in 1858, and to Wilhelm Steinitz in 1866. Accordingly, he is generally regarded as having been the world's...

his best games between 1908 and 1937.[unreliable source] Unlike Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Capablanca and Euwe, he wrote no books that explained...

chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great player of the Romantic chess style,[citation...

and Montreal. Steinitz had previously declared he would win without doubt, so it came as a shock when Lasker won the first game. Steinitz won the second...

isolated queen's pawn structure, and has been called the Steinitz Variation, after Wilhelm Steinitz. This line became well known after his match with Zukertort...

considered to have ended with the 1873 Vienna tournament where Wilhelm Steinitz popularized positional play and the closed game. This domination ushered...

Navarro, Daniel Nazareth, Nikolaus Netzer, Arild Remmereit, René Staar, Alexander Steinitz, Nayden Todorov and Claudius Traunfellner. His daughter from his marriage...

perhaps best known for the game he lost to the former world champion Wilhelm Steinitz at Hastings 1895, especially because he simply walked out of the tournament...

challenges to the chess ideas of central European masters, including Wilhelm Steinitz's approach to the centre and the rules established by Siegbert Tarrasch...

results were 1st equal with Steinitz at Vienna 1873, where the commentators nicknamed Blackburne "the Black Death" (Steinitz won the play-off); 1st in London...

Paul Steinitz OBE (25 August 1909 – 21 April 1988) was an English post-war organist, best known as an interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach's music. He...

preprint version and Fig. 3, p. 30 Ziegler, Günter M. (1995), "Chapter 4: Steinitz' Theorem for 3-Polytopes", Lectures on Polytopes, Graduate Texts in Mathematics...

Federation[permanent dead link] "Steinitz - Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892)". Retrieved 14 April 2016. "Ernst Gruenfeld vs. Alexander Alekhine, Karlsbad...

Jewish ancestry: Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik and Mikhail Tal. The Modern School of Chess espoused by Steinitz and Siegbert Tarrasch...

they may simply play 4.Bb5, when 4...exd4 5.Nxd4 Bd7 transposes to the Steinitz Defence in the Ruy Lopez. 3...Nxd4 the Lolli Variation is possible, though...

from public eye until it was revived in 1990. Named after Wilhelm Steinitz, the Steinitz Variation continues with 4.e5 Nfd7. Here 5.Nce2, the Shirov–Anand...

what would become the modern Deschapelles Chess Club in Boston. Ware vs. Steinitz, 1882 This example uses algebraic notation. Ware was an avid tournament...

mating on the 17th move with his last two pieces. 1862: Steinitz–Mongredien, London. Wilhelm Steinitz won the tournament's brilliancy prize for this game...

Federation). The first universally recognized World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886; Ding Liren is the current World Champion. A...

which world champion Emanuel Lasker finished first and Steinitz finished second, led to Steinitz gaining support for an 1897 rematch, which Lasker won...