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DOWNLOAD - Master Class Vol. 19: Wilhelm Steinitz Luxury Wood Chess Boards American grandmaster Joel BenjaminWilliams Steinitz, 1st World Chess Champion (1886 1894) The match between William Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort in 1886 was the first chess match for the World Chess Championship. Steinitz won, and has since been considered the first official world champion in chess history. In 1894, he lost the title in a match against Emanuel Lasker. William Steinitz, born in 1836 in the ghetto of Prague, then Austria, came to Vienna in 1858, and soon became one