Wilhelm Steinitz: Chess Champion- Part three

Steinitz destroys Zukertort in their unofficial championship match in London 1872, then goes on to the Vienna World Fair and chess congress, which is held in the middle of a cholera epidemic. At Vienna 1872 Steinitz introduces his revolutionary "positional style," which starts an "Ink War" between Steinitz and chess editor Leopold Hoffer, who accuses him of cowardice over the board. Steinitz then takes an almost nine year break from competitive chess. Whilst covering Paris 1878 as a journalist, he gets in a fist fight with Blackburne. The unofficial champ makes a heroic "comeback" by taking shared first in the great Vienna 1882 tournament- the strongest in chess history up to that point.

IMPORTANT HISTORICAL NOTE: At 9:43 the text of this video states that Zukertort was an opium user. Polish chess historian Tomaz Lissowski believes this to be untrue- Zukertort took digitalis to control a heart condition, and this may be the source of a tall tale about his "drug use."

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Education

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• Wilhelm Steinitz
• World Chess Champion
• chess
• Blackburne
• Paulsen
• Bird
• Morphy
• Anderssen
• Zukertort
• Winawer

[jessicafischerqueen]

IMPORTANT HISTORICAL NOTE: At 9:43 the text of this video states that Zukertort was an opium user. Polish chess historian Tomaz Lissowski believes this to be untrue- Zukertort took digitalis to control a heart condition, and this may be the source of a tall tale about his "drug use."

[teddster214]

your videos are amazing!!! where do you get your pictures from?

[jessicafischerqueen]

@teddster214 Thanks very much for commenting Teddster! I got all the pictures from the internet or from Kurt Landsberger's biography of Steinitz.

[felren13]

man, im eating these videos up!

great, Great Job!

and im not sure what i like better, the chess or the amazing drawings here.

the drawings that make up much of your illustrations are out of site!

anyways, thx and thx again.

[djurick1]

awesome video mate :)

[Sprungformationen]

Great Video of a great Champion !

[Yonnu1992]

Awesome job you did with this vid. Keep it up ;-)

[teddster214]

@jessicafischerqueen oh ok the pictures are insanely good!