Isidor Gunsberg

Isidor Arthur Gunsberg was a Hungarian chess player, born in 1854 and dead in 1930, who is best known for narrowly losing the 1891 World Chess Championship match to Wilhelm Steinitz. He was born in Hungary and moved to Britain in his early twenties, where he built his career, starting as the operator of the chess automaton known as Mephisto. He won the inaugural British Chess Association tournament in 1885 and became a three time British champion, and he was among the best players in the world in the 1880s and early 1890s. His name is less familiar today than those of some other masters of his generation.