The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Austria
This page contains a list of the greatest Austrian Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 7 of which were born in Austria. This makes Austria the birth place of the 18th most number of Chess Players behind Serbia and Italy.
Top 7
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. Richard Réti (1889 - 1929)
With an HPI of 59.97, Richard Réti is the most famous Austrian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 35 different languages on wikipedia.
Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak, chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of Nimzowitsch's book My System, he is considered to be the movement's foremost literary contributor.
2. Carl Schlechter (1874 - 1918)
With an HPI of 54.64, Carl Schlechter is the 2nd most famous Austrian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.
Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.
3. Rudolf Spielmann (1883 - 1942)
With an HPI of 53.10, Rudolf Spielmann is the 3rd most famous Austrian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Rudolf Spielmann (5 May 1883 – 20 August 1942) was a Jewish-Austrian chess master of the romantic school, and chess writer.
4. Ernst Grünfeld (1893 - 1962)
With an HPI of 50.12, Ernst Grünfeld is the 4th most famous Austrian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Ernst Franz Grünfeld (November 21, 1893 – April 3, 1962) was an Austrian chess player and writer, mainly on opening theory. He was among the inaugural recipients of the grandmaster title in 1950.
5. Erich Eliskases (1913 - 1997)
With an HPI of 48.86, Erich Eliskases is the 5th most famous Austrian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.
Erich Gottlieb Eliskases (15 February 1913 – 2 February 1997) was a chess player who represented Austria, Germany and Argentina in international competition. In the late 1930s he was considered a potential contender for the World Championship. Eliskases was granted the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1952.
6. Eva Moser (1982 - 2019)
With an HPI of 24.46, Eva Moser is the 6th most famous Austrian Chess Player. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Eva Moser (26 July 1982 – 31 March 2019) was an Austrian chess player. She was awarded the titles International Master (IM), in 2004, and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), in 2003, by FIDE. Moser won both the absolute and women's Austrian chess championships. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2008.
7. Markus Ragger (1988 - )
With an HPI of 22.38, Markus Ragger is the 7th most famous Austrian Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Markus Ragger (born 5 February 1988) is an Austrian chess grandmaster. He won the Austrian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and has played the first board for Austria in the Chess Olympiads since 2008. In October 2016, he became the first Austrian to reach a FIDE rating of 2700. His peak rating is 2703, which he reached in February 2017.
Pantheon has 7 people classified as chess players born between 1874 and 1988. Of these 7, 1 (14.29%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living chess players include Markus Ragger. The most famous deceased chess players include Richard Réti, Carl Schlechter, and Rudolf Spielmann. As of April 2022, 1 new chess players have been added to Pantheon including Markus Ragger.
Living Chess Players
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Richard Réti
1889 - 1929
HPI: 59.97
Carl Schlechter
1874 - 1918
HPI: 54.64
Rudolf Spielmann
1883 - 1942
HPI: 53.10
Ernst Grünfeld
1893 - 1962
HPI: 50.12
Erich Eliskases
1913 - 1997
HPI: 48.86
Eva Moser
1982 - 2019
HPI: 24.46
Newly Added Chess Players (2022)
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