William Lewis (chess player)

Posthumous depiction of William Lewis from 1906

William Lewis (1787–1870) was an English chess player and author, best known for the Lewis Countergambit.[1] He may have been the first player ever described as a Grandmaster of the game.[2]

  1. ^ Oxford Companion to Chess, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 224–5, ISBN 0-19-866164-9
  2. ^ A first mention is presumably made in an 1838 issue of Bell's Life magazine.