Oscar Gelbfuhs
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
Web links
- Compositions by Oscar Gelbfuhs on the Schwalbe's PDB server
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Gelbfuhs, Oscar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian chess player |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1852 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Moravian-Sternberg |
DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1877 |
Place of death | Teschen , Austrian Silesia |