I'm trying to organize a concise list of chess players of the 19th century for analysis purposes, and I've had difficulty googling it.
So far I have Wilhelm Steinitz, Paul Morphy, and Emanuel Lasker. Any help would be nice.
EDIT: This list is for the purpose of analysis, so I'm looking for people who played consistently good games that are worth analyzing.
Go to ChessCafe.com, they have a column entitled, "New Stories About Old Chess Players". Good Luck. There's donuts in the conference room. Don't tell mom.
I was going to write there is no concise list, only an extremely long one. But Bill Wall touches on the best. Good job trysts!
Thanks! It was the second thing, after wikipedia, when I googled "19th century chess masters";)
Go to ChessCafe.com, they have a column entitled, "New Stories About Old Chess Players". Good Luck. There's donuts in the conference room. Don't tell mom.
That's written by my friend, Jeremy Spinrad, professor at Vanerbilt Univ. and a very astute modern chess researcher with a sharp eye for a good story.
I know you guys feel like you're helping, but you're not. From the list you showed me, I recognized the following names:
Wilhelm Steinitz
Paul Morphy
Emanuel Lasker
Siegbert Tarrasch
Aron Nimzowitsch
Howard Staunton
Adolf Anderssen
Mikhail Chigorin
Are there any other notable 19th century chess players that I should be aware of?
Sketchyfish
You are going to have to limit your search parameters a bit--are you talking about world champions--tournament players--problemists--theoreticians? As batgirl said, a list of all players in the 19th century will be extensive. Bill Wall has a list here on chess.com
www.chess.com/article/view/19th-century-chess
and that's only a start. Good luck!
Your right; you should have been more specific. Are there any masters NOT worth studying??
You have to include the famous mcDonnell LaBourdonnais match, 183something, about 50 or 60 games, I think
Nimzowitsch doesn't belong on that list, and a couple you might want to add are H. N. Pillsbury and Zuckertort.
We want pictures, evidence, details. Is this for yourself, or a school project? I'm curious why your parameters cut off at the 20th century.
Start with Deschapelles, though you won't find much, but he played William Lewis and John Cochrane who are worth looking at then La Bourdonnais and Alexander M'Donnell (who was taught by Lewis), whose match is legendary. Visit the Turk under Maelzel, especially with Jacques Mouret giving odds (there's an entire book) and William Schlumberger as the director in the US. And Schlumberger's teacher, St. Amant, the Frenchman who lost an acrimonious match to Staunton the Englishman. Staunton played frequently with the aforementioned Cochrane when Cochrane was in England from his job in India. Look at the 1851 London international, the first of its kind, organized by Staunton, then 1st American Chess Congress of 1857 and the 2nd London in 1862. Especially look at the Germans Anderssen, Harrwitz, Max Lange, v.d. Lasa and all the Pleiades.... Then you've reached Morphy and it's a whole new ballgame.
... From the list you showed me, I recognized the following names:...
You asked for Masters worth studying, not Masters you've heard of. The list Trysts posted is a good list with many masters worth studying, whether you've heard of them or not.
Dashkee's right about Pillsbury. He's the great grandfather of the Pillsbury Dough Boy. Try ChessGames.com
Notable players? That can mean anything; guys with openings named after them (Winawer, Alapin, Paulsen), guys who played great games (Mason, von der Lasa), endgame specialists (Szen, Harrwitz)? Hopefully, these posts will help you understand how large a project you have chosen to undertake, and will help you refine the parameters of what it is you feel you need. Good luck!
I should have been more specific: 19th century masters worth studying.