Gustav Richard Ludwig Neumann (15 December 1838 – 16 February 1881) was a German chess master. Neumann was born in Gleiwitz in the

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. In matches he lost to

Louis Paulsen Louis Paulsen (15 January 1833 in Gut Nassengrund near Blomberg, Principality of Lippe – 18 August 1891) was a German chess player. In the 1860s and 1870s, he was among the top players in the world. He was a younger brother of Wilfried Pa ...

(+3 –5 =3) at Leipzig 1864, and defeated

Celso Golmayo Zúpide Celso Golmayo y Zúpide (24 April 1820, in Logroño, Spain – 1 April 1898, in Havana) was a Spanish–Cuban chess master. He had been generally accepted as Cuban Chess Championship, Cuban champion since his 1862 match defeat of Félix Sicre. He ...

(+3 –0 =0), and

Simon Winawer Szymon Abramowicz Winawer (March 6, 1838 – November 29, 1919) was a Polish-Jewish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883. Tournament and match results At the Paris 1867 tournament held at the Café de la Régence, his first ...

(+3 –0 =0) at Paris 1867. He also won against

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(+12 –2 =8) in three matches in Paris; (+5 –0 =6) in 1867, (+3 –1 =1) and (+4 –1 =1) in 1869. During the late 1860s Neumann was one of the best chess players in the world. In tournaments he was first at Berlin 1865 (+34 –0 =0; first perfect score), first at Elberfeld 1865, first at Dundee 1867 Scotland International, second place went to Steinitz. Neumann reached fourth at Paris 1867 ( Ignatz von Kolisch won), third/fourth at Baden-Baden 1870 (

Adolf Anderssen Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 – March 13, 1879)"Anderssen, Adolf" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a German chess master. He won the great internat ...

won), and second, behind Anderssen, at Altona 1872. However, severe mental illness stopped him playing after 1872. In 1864–1867, together with Anderssen, he founded and edited the ''Neue Berliner Schachzeitung''.

Death

After giving up chess completely due to a

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Gustav Neumann spent the last years of his life in the ''Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Institution Allenberg'' in

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, where he died on 16 February 1881.Chessbase.com: 34 out of 34: Remembering Gustav Neumann
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Chessbase.com: 34 out of 34: Remembering Gustav Neumann
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237 chess games of Gustav Neumann

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