Carl Schlechter
1874 - 1918
HPI 63.0629 languages
Austro-Hungarian chess player
The Most Famous
Chess Players from Austria
7 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 544 Chess Players, 7 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 21st most number of Chess Players behind Spain and Bulgaria.
Top 7 Austrian Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrian Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Austrian Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
#1 #2 
Rudolf Spielmann
1883 - 1942
HPI 61.0423 languagesAustrian chess player (1883–1942)
#3 
Erich Eliskases
1913 - 1997
HPI 57.7920 languagesAustrian-Argentinian chess player (1913-1997)
#4 
Ernst Grünfeld
1893 - 1962
HPI 57.7020 languageschess international grandmaster (1893-1962)
#5 
Johann Berger
1845 - 1933
HPI 55.2217 languagesAustrian chess player (1845–1933)
#6 
Eva Moser
1982 - 2019
HPI 40.3219 languagesAustrian chess player
#7 
Markus Ragger
b. 1988
HPI 37.9515 languagesAustrian chess player
Overlapping Lives
Which Chess Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 7 most globally memorable Chess Players since 1700.
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