Samuel Rosenthal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Samuel Rosenthal

Polish-French chess player

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1837

Place of Birth: Suwałki, Congress Poland, Poland

Date of Death: 12-Sep-1902

Profession: journalist, chess player

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Samuel Rosenthal

  • Samuel Rosenthal (7 September 1837, Suwalki, then Russian Empire – 12 September 1902, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was a Polish-born French chess master.
  • Chess historian Edward Winter wrote, "He dedicated his life to chess-playing, touring, writing, teaching and analysing.
  • Despite only occasional participation in first-class events, he scored victories over all the leading masters of the time (Anderssen, Blackburne, Chigorin, Mackenzie, Mason, Paulsen, Steinitz and Zukertort).
  • He also acquired world renown as an unassuming showman who gave large simultaneous displays and blindfold séances, invariably producing a cluster of glittering moves." Rosenthal became a law student and moved from Warsaw to Paris, during the Polish revolution in 1864, after the failure of the January Uprising.
  • He settled in Paris as a chess professional and writer.
  • In 1864, he lost a match to Ignatz von Kolisch (+1-7=0) in Paris.
  • Rosenthal won the Café de la Régence championship in 1865, 1866, and 1867 in Paris, and became the strongest French chess player.
  • In 1867, he took 9th in the Paris tournament (von Kolisch won), and lost a match to Gustav Neumann (+0-5=6) in Paris.
  • In 1869, he lost two matches to Neumann (+1-3=1) and (+2-4=1).
  • In July 1870, he tied for 8–9th in Baden-Baden.
  • The event was won by Adolf Anderssen. Because of the Franco Prussian War of 1870–71, Rosenthal went to London.
  • In 1870/71, he won a match against John Wisker (+3-2=4). In July–August 1873, Rosenthal took 4th, behind Wilhelm Steinitz, Joseph Henry Blackburne, and Anderssen, in Vienna.
  • In 1878, he tied for 7–8th in Paris (Johannes Zukertort and Szymon Winawer won).
  • In 1880, he won in Paris the first unofficial French Chess Championship (ahead of Albert Clerc and Jules Arnous de Rivière).
  • In 1880, he lost a match against Zukertort (+1-7=11) in London.
  • In 1883, he took 8th in London (Zukertort won).
  • In 1887, he tied for 5–7th in Frankfurt am Main (5th DSB-Congress, Hauptturnier, elim.). His results were affected by his journalistic activities and bad health. From 1885 to 1902, he edited a chess column for the Le Monde Illustré, and also wrote for La Strategie, La Vie Moderne, and other French newspapers.
  • The American writers David Shenk and Joshua Wolf Shenk are descendants of Samuel Rosenthal.

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