1. Carl Schlechter was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century.
11 Facts About Carl Schlechter
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Carl Schlechter is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.
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Carl Schlechter is sometimes deemed to be Jewish, although others dispute this.
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Carl Schlechter began playing chess at the age of 13.
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Carl Schlechter's first and only teacher was an Austria-Hungarian chess problemist, Samuel Gold.
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Carl Schlechter won or shared first at Munich 1900, Coburg 1904, Ostend 1906, Stockholm 1906, Vienna 1908, Prague 1908, Hamburg 1910, and the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna.
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Carl Schlechter drew with Georg Marco in 1893, drew with Marco and Adolf Zinkl both in 1894, drew with Dawid Janowski in 1896, drew with Simon Alapin in 1899, beat Janowski in 1902, drew with Richard Teichmann in 1904, and drew with Siegbert Tarrasch in 1911.
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In 1910, Schlechter played a match against Emanuel Lasker for the World Chess Championship.
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Carl Schlechter was leading by one point going into the tenth and final game.
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Carl Schlechter prepared the eighth and final edition of the monumental Handbuch des Schachspiels openings treatise.
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Carl Schlechter mentored many of his rivals, including Oldrich Duras.