Berthold Englisch
{{short description|Austrian chess player}}
Berthold Englisch (9 July 1851 in Hotzenplotz – 19 October 1897 in Vienna) was a chess master from Austria-Hungary.
Englisch was born in Austrian Silesia, Austrian Empire into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent.
He won the tournaments at Leipzig 1879 (the 1st DSB Congress), at Wiesbaden 1880 (ex-equo with Blackburne and A. Schwarz, ahead of Schallopp, Mason, Bird, Winawer, etc.) and at Vienna 1896 (Quadrangular).{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-12-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archivedate=2007-07-04 }} Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
He lost two matches against Vincenz Hruby in 1882 and to Emanuel Lasker in 1890, both scoring 1.5 : 3.5, and drew a match with Harry Nelson Pillsbury 2.5 : 2.5 (+0 –0 =5) in 1896, all in Vienna.[http://www.chessmetrics.com Welcome to the Chessmetrics site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060414132700/http://www.chessmetrics.com/ |date=April 14, 2006 }}
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| last1=Singer | first1=Isidore | author1-link=Isidore Singer
| last2=Porter | first2=A.
| year=1901–1906 | title=Jewish Encyclopedia
| contribution=Englisch, Berthold
| contribution-url=http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=378&letter=E
| volume=5 | pages=174–5}}
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Category:People from Bruntál District
Category:Chess players from Austria-Hungary