Marcus Kann (1820 in

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

– February 3, 1886) was an

Austrian Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ...

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 ...

player. He and

Horatio Caro Horatio Caro (5 July 1862 – 15 December 1920) was an English chess player. Caro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but spent most of his chess career in Berlin, Germany having moved there when he was two years old. He played several m ...

jointly analysed and published their analysis of the

chess opening A chess opening or simply an opening is the initial stage of a chess game. It usually consists of established theory; the other phases are the middlegame and the endgame. Many opening sequences have standard names such as the "Sicilian Defens ...

later to-be-called Caro-Kann Defence (1.e4 c6) in the German ''Brüderschaft'' magazine in 1886. During the 4th German Chess Congress in Hamburg in May 1885, Kann defeated German-British champion

Jacques Mieses Jacques Mieses (born Jacob Mieses; 27 February 1865 – 23 February 1954) was a German-born British chess player. He was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950. He became a naturalized British ci ...

with the Caro-Kann Defence ( ECO B12) in 24 moves. This game by Kann was added to the final tournament book, but his games from the main tournament, where he earned four points from seven games, failing to qualify to win his group, remain unpublished. The magazine ''Deutsche Schachzeitung'' (1886, p. 128) published a short obituary after his death.

References

External links

*
"The Caro-Kann Defence" by Edward Winter
1820 births 1886 deaths Game players from Vienna Austrian chess players Chess theoreticians 19th-century chess players {{Austria-chess-bio-stub