Wilhelm Steinitz
Wilhelm Steinitz was an American-Austrian chess player who was the first official world chess champion. He was known for his positional, solid, calculating, and emotional playing styles. Steinitz the sobriquet "the father of modern chess." He is credited with inventing the modern chess pawn. Steinitz started his career playing in the "romantics" style, in which there were several attacks and the better guy was likely to prevail. According to Steinitz, the game became impersonal and that both players begin on an equal footing. He claimed that in order for one player to win, the original equilibrium must be disrupted to the point where one side is helpless against the other. Many people said that he was sore loser, as well as a bad winner since he boasted when his ideas succeeded. Many believe Steinitz to be one of the best English-language chess authors of all time. From 1876 to 1882, he wrote a chess column for the London Figaro. From 1885 to 1891, he wrote and published the International Chess Magazine. The first part of his Modern Chess Instructor was published in 1889, but the second part was never published. The book outlines some of his chess theories and analyzes a few openings, some of which go into in depth.