Carl Schlechter

Carl Schlechter was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the twentieth century, born in 1874 and dead in 1918. He is best known for drawing a controversial World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker in 1910, a result that left Lasker in possession of the title. He had a reputation for making many draws, a habit that served him well in matches though it sometimes hurt his tournament results, and he was known as a player without a fixed style who could win by positional play, patient defence or graceful attack. He was also regarded as one of the most gentlemanly players in the history of the game.