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Siegbert Tarrasch (March 5, 1862 February 17, 1934) was one of the strongest chess players and most influential chess teachers of the late 19th century and early 20th century. Tarrasch was born in Breslau (Wroc?aw), Prussian Silesia. Having finished school in 1880, he left Breslau to study medicine in Halle. Later he lived most of his life with his family in Nuremberg, Bavaria, and later in Munich. He had five children. Tarrasch was Jewish, and a patriotic German who lost a son in World War I, and liveduntil the early stages of Nazism. Tarrasch was a highly esteemed chess writer. It was Tarrasch who wrote in his Preface to The Game of Chess (1931) that oft repeated line: Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy. |
