CHESS PLAYER

Siegbert Tarrasch

1862 - 1934

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Siegbert Tarrasch (German pronunciation: [ˈziːɡbɐt ˈtaraʃ]; 5 March 1862 – 17 February 1934) was a German chess player, considered to have been among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Siegbert Tarrasch has received more than 282,417 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Siegbert Tarrasch is the 23rd most popular chess player, the 232nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 224th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Chess Player.

Siegbert Tarrasch is most famous for his chess books. He was also a chess player and a chess teacher.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 23 out of 461. Before him are Paul Morphy, Paul Keres, Ruy López de Segura, Viktor Korchnoi, Samuel Reshevsky, and Judit Polgár. After him are Akiba Rubinstein, Richard Réti, Johannes Zukertort, David Bronstein, Mikhail Chigorin, and Miguel Najdorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 30. Before him are Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Victor, Prince Napoléon, Daniel Swarovski, Edith Wharton, Mori Ōgai, and Loie Fuller. After him are Prince Henry of Prussia, Mary Kingsley, Henry McMahon, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Silvio Gesell, and Maurice Barrès. Among people deceased in 1934, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 32. Before him are Vlado Chernozemski, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Nicholas Marr, Carl von Linde, Jean Vigo, and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Andrei Bely, Franz Ehrle, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Jakob Wassermann, Willem de Sitter, and Pietro Gasparri.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 232 out of 1,694. Before him are Samuel Reshevsky (1911), Władysław II the Exile (1105), Ernst Toller (1893), Aleksandra Ekster (1882), Zbigniew Boniek (1956), and Ignacy Łukasiewicz (1822). After him are Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Aleksander Kwaśniewski (1954), Elisabeth Volkenrath (1919), Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676), Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Poland

Among chess players born in Poland, Siegbert Tarrasch ranks 4. Before him are Emanuel Lasker (1868), Adolf Anderssen (1818), and Samuel Reshevsky (1911). After him are Akiba Rubinstein (1880), Johannes Zukertort (1842), Miguel Najdorf (1910), Szymon Winawer (1838), Edward Lasker (1885), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Daniel Harrwitz (1823), and Valery Salov (1964).

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