Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master.
10 Facts About Johannes Zukertort
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Johannes Zukertort was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match.
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Johannes Zukertort was defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship.
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Johannes Zukertort said that his mother was the Baroness Krzyzanowska.
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Johannes Zukertort's father was a Protestant Christian missionary of Polish descent.
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Johannes Zukertort was educated at the gymnasium of Breslau, and in 1866 at the University of Breslau, from which he graduated in medicine in 1866.
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Unlike the majority of attacking players, Johannes Zukertort preferred openings such as 1.
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Johannes Zukertort learned to play chess in Breslau when he was about age 19.
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Johannes Zukertort studied with Anderssen and within a very few years he became one of the strongest players in Germany.
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The 1878 win in Paris led to some suggestion that Johannes Zukertort was the world's leading player, although Steinitz did not compete.