1. Johann Berger (1845)

Austrian Chess Player

Chess player and endgame theorist who greatly contributed to future writings and chess concepts.

2. Gisela Harum (Unknow)

Austrian Chess Player

Gisela Harum was an Austrian chess master. She played four times in the Women's World Championship. She took 7th at London 1927 3rd at Warsaw 1935 and tied for 17-20th...

3. Berthold Englisch (1851)

Austrian Chess Player

Berthold Englisch was a leading Austrian chess master. Englisch was born in Czech Silesia into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent. He won the tournaments...

4. Carl Schlechter (1874)

Austrian Chess Player

Carl Schlechter was a leading Austrian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel...

5. Josef Krejcik (1885)

Austrian Chess Player

Josef Emil Krejcik was an Austrian chess master problemist journalist and author. Born in Vienna he participated in many local tournaments before during and after World War I.

6. Max Weiss (1857)

Austrian Chess Player

Miksa Weisz was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Weiss was born in Sereď.

7. Max Fleissig (1845)

Austrian Chess Player

Miksa Fleissig was a Hungarian-born Austrian chess master. Dr. Maximilian Fleissig tied for 7-8th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament played at Vienna 1875 and tied for 4-7th at Vienna...

8. Karl Pitschel (Unknow)

Austrian Chess Player

Karl Pitschel was an Austrian chess master. He took 4th at Krefeld 1871 took 4th at Leipzig 1871 took 5th at Altona 1872 took 12th in the Vienna 1873 chess...

9. Philipp Meitner (1839)

Austrian Chess Player

Philipp Meitner was an Austrian lawyer and chess master. His most famous game was the Immortal Draw. He won at Vienna 1875 and won a match against Adolf Schwarz at...

10. Karl Poschauko (1900)

Austrian Chess Player

Karl Poschauko was an Austrian chess master. At the beginning of his career he took 3rd at Vienna 1921 shared 4th and won at Linz 1924 and took 3rd at...

11. Bernhard Fleissig (Unknow)

Austrian Chess Player

Bernhard Fleissig was a Hungarian-born Austrian chess master. Bernhard Fleissig took 18th in the Vienna 1882 chess tournament took 2nd behind Vincenz Hruby at Vienna 1882 and tied for 2nd-3rd...

12. Salome Reischer (1899)

Austrian Chess Player

Salome Reischer was an Austrian female chess master. In 1937 she tied for 17-20th at the 6th Women's World Chess Championship in Stockholm. After Anschluss she moved initially to Palestine...

13. Eduard Glass (Unknow)

Austrian Chess Player

Eduard Glass was an Austrian chess master. He won at Vienna 1927 and shared 1st with Erich Eliskases at Innsbruck 1929. He played several times in the Trebitsch Memorial in...

14. Johann Hermann Bauer (1861)

Austrian Chess Player

Johann Hermann Bauer was an Austrian chess master. Born in Bohemia as a youth he settled in Vienna and won the master title at Frankfurt 1887. His best tournament achievement...

15. Wolfgang Weil (Unknow)

Austrian Chess Player

gang Weil was an Austrian chess master. Dr.

16. Jacques Schwarz (Unknow)

Austrian Chess Player

Jacques Schwarz was an Austrian chess master. Born in Moravia he tied for 5–6th at Graz 1880. In 1881 he tied for 7–8th in Berlin. In 1883 he took 9th...

17. Rudolf Palme (1910)

Austrian Chess Player

Rudolf Palme was an Austrian chess master. He took 14th at Vienna 1933 and represented Austria in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad at Munich 1936. In 1937 he came to Berlin...

18. Arthur Kaufmann (1872)

Austrian Chess Player

Arthur Kaufmann was an Austrian chess master. Born in Romania he lived and played in Vienna. In 1892 he tied for 5-6th shared 3rd in 1893/94 twice took 2nd in...

19. Marcus Kann (Unknow)

Austrian Chess Player

Marcus Kann was an Austrian chess player. Kann and Horatio Caro jointly analysed and published their analysis of the chess opening later to-be-called Caro-Kann Defence in the German Bruederschaft magazine...

20. Erich Eliskases (1913)

Austrian Chess Player

Erich Gottlieb Eliskases was a chess Grandmaster of the 1930s and 1940s who represented Austria Germany and Argentina in international competition. Born in Innsbruck Austro-Hungarian Empire he learned chess at...

21. Baldur Hönlinger (1905)

Austrian Chess Player

Baldur Hönlinger was an Austrian chess master who participated in tournaments and competitions from the 1920s to the 1950s. A native of Vienna Baldur Hönlinger played at first board...

22. Siegmund Beutum (1890)

Austrian Chess Player

Siegmund Beutum was an Austrian chess master. He lived in Vienna where he played in several tournaments.

23. Leopold Löwy, Jr. (1871)

Austrian Chess Player

Leopold Loewy Jr was an Austrian chess master. In 1893/94 he took 12th at Vienna. In 1899 he won the Amateur Tournament of the Vienna Chess Club and took 3rd...

24. Ernst Grünfeld (1893)

Austrian Chess Player

Ernst Franz Grünfeld was a leading Austrian chess grandmaster and chess writer mainly on opening theory.

25. Julius Perlis (1880)

Austrian Chess Player

Julius Perlis – 11 September 1913 Ennstal) was an Austrian chess player.

26. Augustin Neumann (1879)

Austrian Chess Player

Augustin Neumann was an Austrian chess master. He tied for 3rd-5th at Vienna 1901/02 ; took 2nd behind Leopold Loewy Jr at Vienna 1902 ; took 3rd at Hannover 1902...

27. Nikolaus Stanec (1968)

Austrian Chess Player

Nikolaus Stanec is an Austrian chess master. He won the Austrian Chess Championship ten times in the period 1995–2005. He also represented Austria in the Chess Olympiads of 1994 and...