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Isidor Gunsberg

1854 - 1930

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Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (also spelled Günzberg, Hungarian: Gunsberg Artúr Izidor; 1 November 1854 – 2 May 1930) was a Hungarian chess player, best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Isidor Gunsberg has received more than 34,711 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Isidor Gunsberg is the 68th most popular chess player (down from 55th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 240th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Isidor Gunsberg ranks 68 out of 374Before him are Vladimir Kramnik, Rudolf Spielmann, Lionel Kieseritzky, Szymon Winawer, Alexander Kotov, and Semyon Alapin. After him are Maia Chiburdanidze, Isaac Boleslavsky, Luděk Pachman, Alessandro Salvio, István Csom, and Alexander Petrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Isidor Gunsberg ranks 57Before him are Victor Babeș, Patrick Geddes, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa, and Anna Bilińska. After him are Charles Angrand, Adolf Erman, Franz Rohr von Denta, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Konstantin Jireček, and Ruth Belville. Among people deceased in 1930, Isidor Gunsberg ranks 59Before him are Abram Arkhipov, Pierina Legnani, Oskar Nedbal, Eugen Goldstein, Richard Wilhelm, and Władysław Horodecki. After him are Paul Levi, Jeppe Aakjær, Glenn Curtiss, Oku Yasukata, Alexander Kutepov, and Viggo Jensen.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Isidor Gunsberg ranks 289 out of 866Before him are Sándor Puhl (1955), Rudolf Bauer (1879), David Schwarz (1850), Philip de László (1869), Péter Palotás (1929), and Ildikó Enyedi (1955). After him are Géza Toldi (1909), Ferenc Nagy (1903), Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria (1867), Ján Kadár (1918), Mihály Vörösmarty (1800), and Cornell Capa (1918).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Hungary

Among chess players born in Hungary, Isidor Gunsberg ranks 5Before him are Judit Polgár (1976), László Szabó (1917), Lajos Portisch (1937), and Géza Maróczy (1870). After him are István Csom (1940), Zoltán Ribli (1951), István Bilek (1932), András Adorján (1950), Levente Lengyel (1933), Lajos Asztalos (1889), and Győző Forintos (1935).