Oscar Gelbfuhs

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Oscar Gelbfuhs (born November 9, 1852 in Mährisch-Sternberg , † September 27, 1877 in Teschen , Austrian Silesia ) was an Austro-Hungarian chess player .

Gelbfuhs was a promising chess master . The lawyer died before he could develop his talent at the age of 25.

As a participant in the international Viennese championship tournament in 1873, he suggested that “after the end of the tournament, a second table, a quality table, should be created and every fully and half-won game should be entered with the number of the whole or half stand of that opponent against which full or half profit was achieved ” . He was thus an originator of the later further developed Sonneborn-Berger system .

Gelbfuhs' scoring system was often used in chess tournaments until the Sonneborn-Berger system was developed.

literature

  • Chess Yearbook for 1899/1900 , Veit & Comp., Leipzig 1899, p. 136

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Individual evidence

  1. Quoted from [1] , accessed on June 28, 2014