Georg Marco

Georg Marco (29-11-1863 - 29-08-1923) Romanian-Austrian chess player and chess composer
 

Georg Marco was a chess player born in Bucovina and editor of the "Wiener Schachzeitung" during 18 years. He also composed a few chess problems and wrote "Meister des Problems" with Eduard Mazel (1924).

Georg Marco (* 29 November 1863 in Czernowitz; † 29 August 1923 in Vienna) was an Austrian chess player and publicist.

Life
After Marco settled in Vienna, he took an active part in Viennese chess life. Successes in chess cafes and clubs increased his reputation to such an extent that he also took part in international tournaments: among other things, he came fourth in Dresden in 1892, first in Vienna in 1895 (his best result), third in Vienna in 1897, fifth in Monte Carlo in 1903, third in Vienna in 1903, shared second to third in Moscow in 1907, and third in Stockholm in 1912.

Marco drew two matches with Carl Schlechter in Vienna: in 1893 (+0 =10 −0) and in 1894 (+4 =3 −4). In 1901 in Karlsbad he beat Adolf Albin 6:4 (+4 =4 −2). During the Atlantic crossing from the tournament in Cambridge Springs in 1904 back to Europe, he played a theme match (rejected King's Gambit) against Dawid Janowski on the steamer Pretoria, which he lost 2:4 (+2 =0 −4).

He reached his best historical Elo rating of 2673 in June 1906. At that time he was one of the ten best players in the world.

Marco was considered a draw master because of his very solid playing style. Because of his corpulence he was also jokingly called the "Grand, Fat and Broad Master".

He became very well known in the chess world, however, above all as a publicist. He published tournament books on the tournaments in Vienna in 1903 and 1908, Ostend in 1906, Karlsbad in 1907, Baden near Vienna in 1914 and others. He published a competition book on the Lasker-Tarrasch competition in 1908. In 1924, a book on chess composition, written by him together with E. Mazel, was published posthumously: Meister des Problems, Vienna 1924. He also wrote some chess problems himself.

Until his death, he served as secretary of the Vienna Chess Club. From 1898 to 1914, Marco was also editor-in-chief of the renowned Vienna Chess Newspaper. He edited a chess column in the weekly magazine Das Interestinge Blatt.

Source. de.wikipedia.org