CHESS PLAYER

Adolf Schwarz

1836 - 1910

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Adolf Schwarz (31 October 1836, Gálszécs, Hungary, now Sečovce, Slovakia – 25 October 1910, Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian chess master. He took 10th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won). In 1878, he took 2nd, behind Louis Paulsen, in Frankfurt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolf Schwarz has received more than 40,668 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Schwarz is the 175th most popular chess player (down from 118th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 141st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovak Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Adolf Schwarz ranks 175 out of 461. Before him are Susan Polgár, Rafael Vaganian, Milunka Lazarević, Ruslan Ponomariov, Ding Liren, and Chantal Chaudé de Silans. After him are Herman Steiner, Hikaru Nakamura, Amos Burn, Max Weiss, Mir Sultan Khan, and Albin Planinc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Adolf Schwarz ranks 74. Before him are Isabella Beeton, Greene Vardiman Black, Jay Gould, Casimir de Candolle, Remigio Morales Bermúdez, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich. After him are Justiniano Borgoño, Pablo Arosemena, Tekle Giyorgis II, Joseph Smit, Walter Besant, and Russell A. Alger. Among people deceased in 1910, Adolf Schwarz ranks 102. Before him are Melville Fuller, Emily Blackwell, Johan Vaaler, Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, Albert Nasse, and Nikolaos Deligiannis. After him are Octave Chanute, Granville Woods, Antonín Slavíček, John La Farge, Worthington Whittredge, and George Newnes.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Adolf Schwarz ranks 221 out of 418. Before him are Ivan Bella (1964), Ľubomír Luhový (1967), Charles Korvin (1907), Kálmán Tihanyi (1897), Peter Dubovský (1972), and Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová (1855). After him are Mikuláš Galanda (1895), Herman Steiner (1905), Mirka Federer (1978), Timrava (1867), Max Weiss (1857), and Ľudmila Pajdušáková (1916).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among chess players born in Slovakia, Adolf Schwarz ranks 3. Before him are Richard Réti (1889), and Ignatz Kolisch (1837). After him are Herman Steiner (1905), Max Weiss (1857), and Ľubomír Ftáčnik (1957).

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