The Most Famous
Chess Players from Austria
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 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 Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrians Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Austrians Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Carl Schlechter
1874 - 1918
HPI 63.0629 langsAustro-Hungarian chess player
- #2
Rudolf Spielmann
1883 - 1942
HPI 61.0423 langsAustrian chess player (1883–1942)
- #3
Erich Eliskases
1913 - 1997
HPI 57.7920 langsAustrian-Argentinian chess player (1913-1997)
- #4
Ernst Grünfeld
1893 - 1962
HPI 57.7020 langschess international grandmaster (1893-1962)
- #5
Johann Berger
1845 - 1933
HPI 55.2217 langsAustrian chess player (1845–1933)
- #6
Eva Moser
1982 - 2019
HPI 40.3219 langsAustrian chess player
- #7
Markus Ragger
b. 1988
HPI 37.9515 langsAustrian chess player
Overlapping Lives
Which Chess Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 6 most globally memorable Chess Players since 1700.
