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Last modified:
25 September 2026
On this page we list the 22 players who contested the Hastings 1895 international tournament, in alphabetical order of their surnames as they were usually spelled at that time. Ages at the start of the tournament.
Albin, Adolf. Then of New York, previously Vienna but born in Bucharest. Age 46.
von Bardeleben, Curt. Of Berlin, age 34.
Bird, Henry Edward. Of London, age 66. (Some older reference works wrongly give 1830 as his birth year but 1829 is correct).
Blackburne, Joseph Henry. Then of Hastings, previously of Manchester and London. Age 53.
Burn, Amos, of Liverpool, age 46.
Gunsberg, Isidor, of London but born in Budapest, age 40.
Janowski, Dawid, of Paris but born in Poland, age 26.
Lasker, Emanuel, the World Champion since 1894. Then of London, previously Berlin, age 26. (He had not yet earned his doctorate.)
Marco, Georg. Of Vienna but born in what is now a part of Ukraine, age 31.
Mason, James. Of London, previously of the USA but born in Kilkenny, Ireland. Age 45.
Mieses, Jakob (latterly Jacques). Of Leipzig, age 30.
Pillsbury, Harry Nelson, of Boston, Massachusetts. Age 22.
Pollock, William Henry Krause, of Canada, previously England. Age 36.
Schiffers, Emanuel, of St. Petersburg. Age 45.
Schlechter, Carl, of Vienna. Age 21.
Steinitz, William, now of New York, the first World Champion. Age 59.
Tarrasch, Dr. Siegbert. of Nuremberg. Age **
Teichmann, Richard, then of London, but originally (and later) from Germany. Age 26.
Tinsley, Samuel, of London; chess correspondent of The Times. Age 48.
Tschigorin, Mikhail Ivanovich, of St. Petersburg, age 44. (Today we would normally transcribe his name as "Chigorin").
Vergani, Beniamino, of Montebelluna, Italy. Age 32.
Walbrodt, August, of Berlin but born in Amsterdam, age 33.
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