Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch was a German chess player and a medical doctor by profession, born in 1862 in Breslau and dead in 1934. He is considered among the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and he may have been the best player in the world in the early 1890s. He declined a chance to challenge Wilhelm Steinitz for the title in 1892 because of the demands of his medical practice, and met Emanuel Lasker in a world title match only in 1908, which Lasker won by eight wins to three with five draws. A defence to the Queen's Gambit and a line of the French Defence carry his name.