Berlin Pleiades

The Berlin School or the Berlin Pleiades ( the " Pleiades " ) was a group of Berlin chess masters who significantly influenced the chess events in Germany in the 19th century. These " seven stars " were

  • Bledow Ludwig (1795-1846), director of the Berlin Chess Club, founder of the Berlin and later German chess magazine
  • Karl Schorn (1803-1850)
  • Bernhard Horwitz (1808-1885)
  • Carl Mayet (1810-1868)
  • Wilhelm Hanstein (1811-1850), editor of the Berlin newspaper chess 1846
  • Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815-1840), originator of the idea to the manual of chess
  • Tassilo von Heydebrand and Lasa (1817-1899), lead author of the manual

These were members of the Berlin Chess Club, the then leading German chess club. The group met twice a week for the study of opening theory. From these findings, the famous Bilguer how the manual was named after his prematurely deceased author was born.

Again and again met with strong chess player to the Pleiades to participate or benefit from their findings. These guests were Adolf Anderssen, Max Lange, Jean Dufresne and Carl Ferdinand Jänisch.

  • Berlin School
  • Ludwig Bledow
  • Wilhelm Hanstein
  • Carl Mayet
  • Rudolph of Bilguer
  • T. von Heyd. and d Lasa
  • Bernhard Horwitz
  • Karl Schorn
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