Ernst Falkbeer

Ernst Karl Falkbeer (June 27, 1819 – December 14, 1885)[1] was an Austrian chess master and journalist.

Falkbeer was born in Brünn in Austrian Empire (today known as Brno in the Czech Republic).

[2] He played chess with German masters Adolf Anderssen and Jean Dufresne in Leipzig, Berlin, Dresden, and Bremen.

Two years later, in January 1855, he started the first Austrian chess magazine, Wiener Schachzeitung, which lasted only a few months.

He introduced the Falkbeer Countergambit, still considered one of the main lines in the King's Gambit Declined.