Ignatz Kolisch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ignatz Kolisch

Austro-Hungarian chess player

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1837

Place of Birth: Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 30-Apr-1889

Profession: banker, journalist, chess player

Nationality: Austria, Slovakia

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Ignatz Kolisch

  • Baron Ignatz von Kolisch (6 April 1837 – 30 April 1889), also Baron Ignaz von Kolisch (German) or báró Kolisch Ignác (Hungarian), was a merchant, journalist and chess master with Jewish roots. Kolisch was born into a Jewish family in Pressburg.
  • Both in business and as a chess player he was eminently successful.
  • In his early years he moved to Vienna, then spent a year in Italy.
  • In 1859 he arrived in Paris and in 1860-62 mostly sojourned in London.
  • In summer 1862 he accompanied the Russian Count Kushelev-Bezborodko to St.
  • Petersburg, where he won a match against Ilya Shumov.
  • Later he moved to Paris and in 1869 to Vienna.
  • He became involved in banking and became a millionaire and chess patron, organizing and sponsoring important chess tournaments in the 1870s and 1880s.
  • He founded the Wiener Börse-Syndikatskasse in 1869, and in 1873 established a commission house in Paris; and by prudent management he acquired considerable wealth.
  • In 1881 he received the title of baron from Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. As a chess player, Kolisch soon became known for his brilliant and aggressive style, but he was not a frequent participant in tournaments.
  • In 1860 he won the first prize at the international tournament held at Cambridge, England.
  • In 1861 he lost a match to Adolf Anderssen, the strongest player of the day, by a score of 5–4.
  • The same year, he drew a match with Louis Paulsen.
  • In 1867 at the Paris tournament he secured first place, defeating both Szymon Winawer and Wilhelm Steinitz. Kolisch was the founder and editor-in-chief of the Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, to which, under the pseudonym "Ideka", he contributed many feuilletons.
  • The protagonist in the short story "The chessbaron" (A sakkbáró) by Ferenc Móra is based on him.
  • He died of kidney failure in 1889.

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