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Joseph Plachutta

Slovene-descent austrian chess composer.

Born May 13th, 1827 in Zadar.

Died July 22nd, 1883 at 56 years old in Przemyśl.

Occupations
chess composer, chess player
Wikipedia

Anything I’ve done that was ultimately worthwhile initially scared me to death. Betty Bender