Study composed by

Wilhelm Steinitz

(Czechoslovakia, 17.5.1836 - 12.8.1900 USA)

Because he is crowned as the first official World Champion in Chess there are numerous pictures and articles about him to be found.

Just start at Wikipedia.

He created only 4 studies but 3 of them are poor.

The one below is famous and nice.

(All his studies, more exact dates, possible corrections or cooks and exact details about sources can be found in the

Harold van der Heijden database V (31-12-2015) ).