Oscar Gelbfuhs

Oscar Gelbfuhs (November 9, 1852, Šternberk, Moravia – September 27, 1877, Cieszyn, Austrian Silesia) was a Moravian-Austrian chess master.

He took 11th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won).^[1] Gelbfuhs invented and proposed an auxiliary scoring method for tie breaking (Sonnenborn–Berger) there.^[2] A simpler version the "Neustadtl Score" later became widely used.^[3]

References

1. ^ Vienna
2. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20091028083510/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/history.txt
3. ^ Chess Games Database

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Name	Gelbfuhs, Oscar
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Date of birth	November 9, 1852
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Date of death	September 27, 1877
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