- Emanuel Schiffers
Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers ( _ru. Эммануил Степанович Шифферс; OldStyleDate|4 May|1850|22 April — OldStyleDate|12 December|1904|29 November) was a
Russia nchess player and chess writer. For many years he was the second leading Russian player afterMikhail Chigorin .Schiffers parents emigrated from
Germany . He was born inSaint Petersburg and also died there.Schiffers held the title of Russian champion for 10 years before finally being defeated by his student,
Mikhail Chigorin , in 1880. At their first meeting in 1873, Schiffers was able to offer Chigorin (who also from St. Petersburg) knight odds. In 1878 they played on even terms, Schiffers losing the first of two matches 7-3, but winning the second 7.5-6.5, thus establishing himself as the second strongest player in Russia after Chigorin himself. They later played two more matches with Chigorin winning both.At
Rostov on Don in 1896 he played a match against formerWorld Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz , losing 6.5–4.5.Schiffers played eight major foreign tournaments from
Frankfurt 1887 toCologne 1898. His best tournament result was at Hastings 1895 where he finished sixth with 12/21 (Harry Pillsbury won). In 1899 and 1900/01, he took second places, behind Chigorin, in All Russian Masters Tournament (1st and 2nd RUS-ch).Schiffers was known as "Russia's Chess Teacher".In 1889, Schiffers gave the first public lectures on chess theory in Russia, at the St Petersburg Chess Association and in other cities.He wrote the chess textbook "Samouchitel shakhmatnoi igry" ("Chess Self Taught", published 1906).
References
*citation
last1=Hooper | first1=David | author1-link=David Vincent Hooper
last2=Whyld | first2=Kenneth | author2-link=Kenneth Whyld
year=1992 | title=The Oxford Companion to Chess | edition=2
publisher=Oxford University Press
isbn=0-19-280049-3
page=356
*citation
editor-last=Golombek | editor-first=Harry | editor-link=Harry Golombek
year=1977 | title=Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess
publisher=Crown Publishing
isbn=0-517-53146-1
contribution=Schiffers, Emanuel S.
last=O'Connell | first=Kevin J.
page=289 (gives 1906 as year of death, evidently a typo)External links
*chessgames player|id=22166|name=Emmanuel Schiffers
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