Dee ihe ga-eso paragraf a - Steinitz bụ onye e zigara ịnọchite anya Ọstria n'asọmpi egwuregwu chess nke London n'afọ 1862
Ọ dị mma. Ọ gbara onye nke isii, mana mmeri ya n'ebe Augustus Mongredien nọ nwetara ihe nrite nke asọmpi ahụ. Ozugbo ahụ ọ gbara onye asọmpi nke ise, onye siri ike nke Italiantali bụ Serafino Dubois, mgba, nke Steinitz meriri (mmeri ise, otu draw, mmeri atọ). Nke a gbara ya ume ịghọ ọkachamara, o wee biri na London. N'afọ 1862-63, Steinitz meriri Joseph Henry Blackburne, onye nọgidere bụrụ otu n'ime mmadụ iri kacha mma n'ụwa ruo afọ iri abụọ, mana onye bidoro igwu egwu afọ abụọ tupu mgbe ahụ. Steinitz meriri ụfọdụ ndị egwuregwu UK na egwuregwu: Frederic Deacon na Mongredien a kpọtụrụ aha n'elu na 1863 sochiri Valentine Green na 1864. N'ọnwa Machị nke afọ 1863, Steinitz rịọrọ mgbaghara n'akwụkwọ ozi o degaara Ignác Kolisch maka ịkwụghị ụgwọ ya, n'ihi na mgbe Steinitz na-eti Blackburne, Daniel Harrwitz "were" ndị ahịa Steinitz niile na London Chess Club, bụ ndị nyere Steinitz isi mmalite ego.