William Lewis (chess player)

William Lewis ( born October 9, 1787 Birmingham, † October 22, 1870 in England ) was an English chess player, author and organizer.

Life

William Lewis was a pupil of Jacob Henry Sarratts and resigned after his death (1819 ) his successor as leading British chess master. Between 1818 and 1819 Lewis is said to have the " Chess Turk " serving at the request of Johann Nepomuk Mälzel at various shows in England.

In April 1821 Lewis went to Paris to play against Alexandre Deschapelles a competition. Three games were played in which Deschapelles Lewis was the target of Bauer and train. Lewis won a game and remisierte two games. In 1823 he lost to La Bourdonnais a competition with a win and four defeats. He stood at the head of the London Chess Club teams in correspondence chess match in 1824 against Edinburgh. Alexander McDonnell in 1825 a student of Lewis. 1827 Lewis went bankrupt after he had invested in a piano company.

Authorship

He has written several chess books:

Prior to chess problems were referred to as chess chess positions or situations. He called himself, Teacher of Chess'.

In 1838 an article in Bell 's Life of George Walker took on William Lewis terms as "our past grandmaster ". It was the first time that the term grandmaster was used to refer to a high-ranking chess players.