Wilhelm Steinitz
1st World Chess Champion · Romantic era · Austria · 1836–1900
The first World Champion, and the father of positional chess.
Career In The Collection
583Games
318Wins
118Draws
147Losses
65%Score
1859–1899Active
Head-to-Head Records
| Opponent | Games | Wins | Draws | Losses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mikhail Chigorin | 58 | 26 | 8 | 24 | view games |
| Emanuel Lasker | 46 | 8 | 12 | 26 | view games |
| Joseph Blackburne | 35 | 19 | 7 | 9 | view games |
| Johannes Zukertort | 31 | 16 | 8 | 7 | view games |
| Adolf Anderssen | 23 | 11 | 0 | 12 | view games |
| Harry Nelson Pillsbury | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | view games |
| Carl Schlechter | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | view games |
| Louis Paulsen | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | view games |
| Geza Maroczy | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | view games |
| Siegbert Tarrasch | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | view games |
583 Games · Page 1 of 3
- 1899 vs Henry Edward Bird White London A85 1/2-1/2
- 1899 vs Henry Edward Bird Black London A03 0-1
- 1899 vs Joseph Blackburne White London D20 0-1
- 1899 vs Joseph Blackburne Black London D02 0-1
- 1899 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black London C44 1-0
- 1899 vs Mikhail Chigorin White London D07 1/2-1/2
- 1899 vs Wilhelm Cohn White London C29 1/2-1/2
- 1899 vs Wilhelm Cohn Black London C62 0-1
- 1899 vs Dawid Markelowicz Janowsky White London D26 0-1
- 1899 vs Dawid Markelowicz Janowsky Black London C62 0-1
- 1899 vs Emanuel Lasker White London C29 0-1
- 1899 vs Emanuel Lasker Black London C66 1/2-1/2
- 1899 vs Francis Lee Black London D00 1-0
- 1899 vs Francis Lee White London D53 1/2-1/2
- 1899 vs Geza Maroczy White London A85 1/2-1/2
- 1899 vs Geza Maroczy Black London C62 1-0
- 1899 vs James Mason Black London C65 0-1
- 1899 vs James Mason White London C29 0-1
- 1899 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury Black London C62 1-0
- 1899 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury White London C29 0-1
- 1899 vs Carl Schlechter Black London C62 1-0
- 1899 vs Carl Schlechter White London C29 0-1
- 1899 vs Jackson Whipps Showalter Black London C62 1-0
- 1899 vs Jackson Whipps Showalter White London C02 1/2-1/2
- 1899 vs Samuel Tinsley Black London D00 0-1
- 1899 vs Samuel Tinsley White London C02 1-0
- 1898 vs Simon Alapin White Vienna C60 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Simon Alapin Black Vienna C66 0-1
- 1898 vs David Graham Baird White Vienna C30 1-0
- 1898 vs David Graham Baird Black Vienna C45 0-1
- 1898 vs Joseph Blackburne Black Vienna C62 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Joseph Blackburne White Vienna C59 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Amos Burn White Vienna C02 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Amos Burn Black DSB-11. Kongress D27 1-0
- 1898 vs Amos Burn Black Vienna D50 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Horatio Caro Black Vienna D02 0-1
- 1898 vs Horatio Caro White Vienna C29 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Mikhail Chigorin White Vienna D07 1-0
- 1898 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black Vienna C44 1-0
- 1898 vs Alexander Fritz White DSB-11. Kongress C29 1-0
- 1898 vs Alexander Halprin Black Vienna C33 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Alexander Halprin White Vienna D37 1-0
- 1898 vs Dawid Markelowicz Janowsky Black Vienna C33 1-0
- 1898 vs Dawid Markelowicz Janowsky White Vienna C54 0-1
- 1898 vs Dawid Markelowicz Janowsky Black DSB-11. Kongress C33 0-1
- 1898 vs Paul Lipke White Vienna D37 1-0
- 1898 vs Paul Lipke Black Vienna C60 0-1
- 1898 vs Georg Marco White Vienna D46 1-0
- 1898 vs Georg Marco Black Vienna C33 0-1
- 1898 vs Geza Maroczy White Vienna C02 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Geza Maroczy Black Vienna C33 0-1
- 1898 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury White Vienna C54 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury Black Vienna C62 1-0
- 1898 vs Emil Schallopp Black DSB-11. Kongress C33 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers White DSB-11. Kongress D37 1-0
- 1898 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers White Vienna C54 0-1
- 1898 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Vienna C66 0-1
- 1898 vs Carl Schlechter White Vienna C54 1-0
- 1898 vs Carl Schlechter Black DSB-11. Kongress C28 1-0
- 1898 vs Carl Schlechter Black Vienna C66 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Jackson Whipps Showalter Black DSB-11. Kongress C62 1-0
- 1898 vs Jackson Whipps Showalter Black Vienna C44 0-1
- 1898 vs Jackson Whipps Showalter White Vienna C02 1-0
- 1898 vs Siegbert Tarrasch Black Vienna C66 1-0
- 1898 vs Siegbert Tarrasch White Vienna D32 1/2-1/2
- 1898 vs Herbert Trenchard White Vienna C29 1-0
- 1898 vs Herbert Trenchard Black Vienna D00 0-1
- 1898 vs Ignatz Von Popiel White DSB-11. Kongress B15 1-0
- 1898 vs Carl August Walbrodt Black Vienna C66 1-0
- 1898 vs Carl August Walbrodt White Vienna C29 1-0
- 1896 vs Adolf Albin Black Nuremberg C64 1-0
- 1896 vs Joseph Blackburne White Nuremberg C54 1-0
- 1896 vs Rudolf Rezso Charousek Black Nuremberg C33 0-1
- 1896 vs Mikhail Chigorin White Nuremberg D37 1-0
- 1896 vs H. Den Hertog White New York sim C29 1-0
- 1896 vs C. Enschede White New York sim C05 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs C. Enschede White New York sim C11 1-0
- 1896 vs Dawid Markelowicz Janowsky White Nuremberg D37 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 6th C50 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th D53 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th D53 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th D53 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White Nuremberg C07 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 6th C64 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 6th C68 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 6th C62 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 6th C71 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 6th C71 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th D60 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th D53 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th D53 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th C54 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 6th C64 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 6th C68 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th D53 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White St Petersburg9596 D35 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 6th C54 0-1
- 1896 vs Georg Marco White Nuremberg D31 1-0
- 1896 vs Geza Maroczy Black Nuremberg C64 0-1
- 1896 vs A. Papot White New York sim C29 1-0
- 1896 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury White Nuremberg D53 0-1
- 1896 vs Moritz Porges White Nuremberg D37 1-0
- 1896 vs Emil Schallopp White Nuremberg D37 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Rostov on Don m C64 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Rostov on Don m C64 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Rostov on Don m C64 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers White Rostov on Don m C54 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Rostov on Don m C64 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Rostov on Don m C49 1-0
- 1896 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Rostov on Don m C50 0-1
- 1896 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Nuremberg C49 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs Carl Schlechter Black Nuremberg C60 0-1
- 1896 vs Jackson Whipps Showalter White Nuremberg C39 1-0
- 1896 vs Siegbert Tarrasch Black Nuremberg C60 1-0
- 1896 vs Richard Teichmann Black Nuremberg C64 0-1
- 1896 vs Bert Van der Linden White New York sim C43 1-0
- 1896 vs Arnoldus Van Rhijn White New York sim C29 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs Carl August Walbrodt Black Nuremberg C64 1/2-1/2
- 1896 vs Szymon Winawer Black Nuremberg C22 1-0
- 1895 vs Adolf Albin White Hastings A85 1-0
- 1895 vs Henry Edward Bird White Hastings D31 0-1
- 1895 vs Joseph Blackburne Black Hastings C33 0-1
- 1895 vs Amos Burn White Hastings D35 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black St Petersburg9596 C52 1-0
- 1895 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black Hastings C52 0-1
- 1895 vs Mikhail Chigorin White St Petersburg9596 D37 0-1
- 1895 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black St Petersburg9596 C52 0-1
- 1895 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black St Petersburg9596 C52 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs Mikhail Chigorin White St Petersburg9596 D45 0-1
- 1895 vs Mikhail Chigorin White St Petersburg9596 D21 1-0
- 1895 vs Isidor Gunsberg Black Hastings C51 0-1
- 1895 vs Dawid Markelowicz Janowsky Black Hastings C72 1-0
- 1895 vs Emanuel Lasker Black St Petersburg9596 C64 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs Emanuel Lasker Black St Petersburg9596 C62 1-0
- 1895 vs Emanuel Lasker White St Petersburg9596 D37 0-1
- 1895 vs Emanuel Lasker White St Petersburg9596 D35 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs Emanuel Lasker Black St Petersburg9596 C87 1-0
- 1895 vs Emanuel Lasker Black Hastings C75 1-0
- 1895 vs Georg Marco Black Hastings C72 0-1
- 1895 vs James Mason White Hastings C41 1-0
- 1895 vs Jacques Mieses White Hastings C42 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury White St Petersburg9596 C79 1-0
- 1895 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury Black St Petersburg9596 D26 0-1
- 1895 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury Black St Petersburg9596 D26 0-1
- 1895 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury Black St Petersburg9596 D26 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury Black Hastings D50 1-0
- 1895 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury White St Petersburg9596 C43 1-0
- 1895 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury White St Petersburg9596 C43 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs William Henry Kraus Pollock White Hastings C53 0-1
- 1895 vs Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers Black Hastings C49 0-1
- 1895 vs Carl Schlechter White Hastings C54 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs Siegbert Tarrasch White Hastings A85 0-1
- 1895 vs Richard Teichmann Black Hastings C75 1/2-1/2
- 1895 vs Samuel Tinsley White Hastings E70 1-0
- 1895 vs Beniamino Vergani White Hastings C11 1-0
- 1895 vs Curt Von Bardeleben White Hastings C54 1-0
- 1895 vs Carl August Walbrodt Black Hastings C87 0-1
- 1894 vs Adolf Albin White New York A81 0-1
- 1894 vs David Graham Baird Black New York C72 0-1
- 1894 vs Eugene Delmar Black New York C45 0-1
- 1894 vs Jacob C Halpern White New York C05 1-0
- 1894 vs James Moore Hanham Black New York C54 0-1
- 1894 vs Edward Hymes Black New York C72 1/2-1/2
- 1894 vs Nicolai Jasnogrodsky White New York C30 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th C54 1/2-1/2
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th C68 0-1
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th D40 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th D60 1/2-1/2
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th C46 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th C10 0-1
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th D40 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th D60 0-1
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th C65 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th D35 0-1
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th C54 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th D40 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th C62 1/2-1/2
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th C62 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th D46 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th C50 0-1
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th C62 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker Black World Championship 5th C62 1-0
- 1894 vs Emanuel Lasker White World Championship 5th D67 1/2-1/2
- 1894 vs Harry Nelson Pillsbury Black New York D26 0-1
- 1894 vs S. Riccardo Rocamora White New York C65 1-0
- 1894 vs Jackson Whipps Showalter White New York D66 1-0
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black World Championship 4th C52 1/2-1/2
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black World Championship 4th C52 1/2-1/2
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black World Championship 4th C25 1/2-1/2
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin White World Championship 4th D37 1-0
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin White World Championship 4th C58 0-1
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black World Championship 4th C52 1-0
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin White World Championship 4th A85 1-0
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin White World Championship 4th C58 0-1
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin White World Championship 4th C77 1-0
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin White World Championship 4th C65 1-0
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black World Championship 4th C52 1-0
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin White World Championship 4th C59 1-0
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black World Championship 4th C52 1/2-1/2
- 1892 vs Mikhail Chigorin Black World Championship 4th C52 1-0
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