Ernst Flechsig (5 October 1852 - 11 October 1890) was a German

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

master. Flechsig was born in

Bad Elster Bad Elster () is a spa town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany. It lies on the border of Bavaria and the Czech Republic in the Elster gebirge hills. It is situated on the river White Elster, and is protected from extremes of t ...

. He shared 2nd at Düsseldorf 1876 (the 10th Western German Chess Congress, ''Kongresse des Westdeutschen Schachbundes (WDSB)'',

Wilfried Paulsen Wilfried Paulsen (31 July 1828 – 6 February 1901) was a German chess master, an elder brother of Louis Paulsen. He tied for 3rd-5th at Düsseldorf 1862 (2nd Western German Congress, ''Kongresse des Westdeutschen Schachbundes (WDSB)'', Max Lange ...

won), took 10th at Leipzig 1877 (the 3rd Central German Chess Congress, ''Kongresse des Mitteldeutschen Schachbundes (MDSB)'',

Louis Paulsen Louis Paulsen (15 January 1833 in Gut Nassengrund near Blomberg, Principality of Lippe – 18 August 1891) was a German chess player. In the 1860s and 1870s, he was among the top players in the world. He was a younger brother of Wilfried Pa ...

won), and tied for 8-9th at Leipzig 1879 (the 1st German

DSB Congress The ''Deutscher Schachbund'' (DSB) was founded in Leipzig on 18 July, 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chair ...

, ''Kongresse des Deutschen Schachbundes (DSB)'',

Berthold Englisch Berthold Englisch (9 July 1851, Hotzenplotz – 19 October 1897, Vienna) was a leading Austrian chess master. Englisch was born in Austrian Silesia (then Austria-Hungary) into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent. He won ...

won). Dr. Ernst Flechsig won a game with

Fritz Riemann Fritz Riemann (2 January 1859, Weistritz, near Schweidnitz – 25 November 1932, Erfurt) was a German chess master. Born in Silesia (then Prussia), he was a chess pupil of Adolf Anderssen in Breslau. In 1876, he won a match against Arnold Schott ...

at Breslau 1885 where he was the first player on record to play the Exchange Variation of the Nimzowitsch Defence.Welcome to the Chessmetrics site

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