The tournament celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Emperor
Franz Joseph I of Austria
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the Grand title of the Emperor of Austria, other states of the Habsburg m ...
's accession to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Main organiser was
Baron Albert Freiherr von Rothschild who also financed the Vienna tournaments of 1873, 1882, 1903, and 1908. The players visited his Heugasse palace on 31 May 1898. Rounds were played in the clubhouse of the ''Wiener Schachklub'' at Schottengasse 7.
Hugo Fahndrich was the tournament director at ''Kaiser Jubiläumsturnier 1898''. The time limit was thirty moves in two hours, and fifteen moves per hour after this. Twenty great masters (only
Emanuel Lasker
Emanuel Lasker (; December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognised World Chess Champ ...
and
Rudolf Charousek
Rudolf Charousek ( hu, Charousek Rezső; 19 September 1873 – 18 April 1900) was a Czech born Hungarian chess player. One of the top ten players in the world during the 1890s, he had a short career, dying at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Re ...
were absent at ''Kaiser-Jubiläumsturnier'') played double rounds from 1 June to 25 July.
Adolf Schwarz
Adolf Schwarz (31 October 1836, Gálszécs, Hungary, now Sečovce, Slovakia – 25 October 1910, Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian chess master.
He took 10th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won). I ...
withdrew after playing eight games.
Tarrasch and Pillsbury ended equal after two cycles and had to play an extra play-off match. The additional games were played from 27 until 30 July 1898.
Tarrasch won 6000 Kronen and Pillsbury won 4400 Kronen.
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Hugo Fähndrich
Hugo Fähndrich (3 July 1851 – 3 July 1930) was an Austrian–Hungarian chess master.
Born in Hungary, he moved to Vienna. In 19th/20th century, the Viennese chess school, founded by Max Weiss, was propagated by the Carl Schlechter– Arthur Kau ...
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