Well known chess player with a large bushy mustache.

Sort:
ClegChess

Can anyone tell me the name of a well known chess player with a large bushy Hungarian style mustache.

Thank you.

snoozyman
Bobby Fischer, when he was old…
ClegChess

Than you. But, he is too scruffy looking. There must be some others.

Ubik42
Maybe Pal Benko
Contenchess

Everyone in the 1800's at one time or another 🤔

DreamscapeHorizons

Emmanuel Lasker.

Wilhelm Steinitz too.

ClegChess

Thanks for all the suggestions. Several of them are excellent.

Since posting this I have found Jackson W. Showalter who has a truly impressive mustache of the type I am looking for. There is a Chess.com article about him: https://www.chess.com/article/view/jackson-w-showalter-1859-1935

The following remarks are taken from that article:

Lasker said about him, “No man in all my experience ever stood up with such a formidable front as the talented Kentuckian.  He is the greatest player I ever met" And William Steinitz was once affectionately quoted as saying that Showalter was “one of only six men from whom he would accept a cigar.””