John William Schulten


John William Schulten, also spelled Johann Wilhelm, was a 19th-century chess master from Germany and the United States. In the 1840s and 1850s, he traveled widely in Europe and the United States to play some of the best chess players in the world—Adolf Anderssen, Alexandre Deschapelles, Daniel Harrwitz, Bernhard Horwitz, Lionel Kieseritzky, Paul Morphy, Gustav Neumann, Jules Arnous de Rivière, Eugéne Rousseau, Pierre St. Amant, Charles Stanley, Von der Lasa, and Johannes Zukertort—losing to most of them. Although he lost matches against Kieseritzky and Morphy, he did beat both of them once. His only win against Morphy was in New York City in 1857:
Move numberMovement
1e4 e5
2f4 d5
3exd5 e4
4Nc3 Nf6
5Bc4 c6
6d3 Bb4
7dxe4 Nxe4
8Bd2 Bxc3
9Bxc3 O-O
10Qh5 Re8
11O-O-O Nxc3
12bxc3 Qa5
13Kb2 g6
14Qh6 Bg4
15Nf3 Bxf3
16gxf3 b5
17f5 bxc4
18f6 1-0

Schulten has a chess opening variation named after him—the Schulten Defense to the Italian Game/Evans Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4 Bxb4 5.c3 Ba5 6.d4 exd4 7.O-O b5.