Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers (Russian: Эммануил Степанович Шифферс; 4 May [O.S. 22 April] 1850 – 12 December [O.S. 29 November] 1904) was a Russian chess player and chess writer. For many years he was the second leading Russian player after Mikhail Chigorin.
Emanuel Schiffers
Schiffers parents emigrated from Germany. He was born in Saint Petersburg and also died there.
Schiffers held the title of Russian champion for 10 years before finally being defeated by his student, Mikhail Chigorin, in 1880. At their first meeting in 1873, Schiffers was able to offer Chigorin (also from St. Petersburg) knight odds. In 1878 they played on even terms, Schiffers losing the first of two matches 7–3, but winning the second 7½–6½, thus establishing himself as the second strongest player in Russia after Chigorin himself. They later played two more matches with Chigorin winning both.
Schiffers played eight major foreign tournaments from Frankfurt 1887 to Cologne 1898. His best tournament result was at Hastings 1895 where he finished sixth with 12/21 (Harry Pillsbury won). In 1899 and 1900/01, he took second places, behind Chigorin, in All Russian Masters Tournament (1st and 2nd RUS-ch).
Schiffers was known as "Russia's Chess Teacher". In 1889, he gave the first public lectures on chess theory in Russia, at the St. Petersburg Chess Association and in other cities. He wrote the chess textbook Samouchitel shakhmatnoi igry (Chess Self Taught, published 1906). In November 1899 it was reported that he became insane and was taken to an asylum.[1]
Schiffers–Harmonist, Frankfurt 1887,[2] has been anthologized in many game collections and was dubbed "Schiffers' Immortal Game" by Irving Chernev.[3] It features a spectacular rook sacrifice followed by a long winning combination.
O'Connell, Kevin J. (1977), "Schiffers, Emanuel S.", in Golombek, Harry (ed.), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishing, p. 289, ISBN0-517-53146-1 (gives 1906 as year of death, evidently a typo)
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January 01, 1970
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