Johannes Zukertort, Polish-English chess player, linguist, and journalist (died 1888)

Johannes Zukertort

Chess master (1842–1888)

Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He 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…