Isidor Gunsberg (
1854 -
1930) began his career as the player inside the
chess automaton[?] Mephisto but later, became a
chess professional He was the only
British player who has ever played a match for the
world championship (until
Nigel Short) - against
Wilhelm Steinitz and lost (+4=9-6) . In match play, he defeated Bird and Blackburne and drew with Chigorin. In
1916 he sued the
Evening News[?] for libel when they said that his chess column contained blunders. He won the suit after the
British High Court[?] accepted a submission that in chess matters,eight oversights did not make a blunder.