page_title: Vincent Grimm
hierarchical_section_title: Vincent Grimm
caption_attribution_description: English: photo from the Elke Rehder private chess collection of an 1850 wood engraving of Vincent Grimm Deutsch: Foto aus der Elke Rehder Schachsammlung von einem Holzstich von 1850 von einem Portrait von Vincenz Grimm Македонски: Фото од Elke Rehder приватна збирка на шахот на 1850 дрво гравирање на Винцент Грим Català: foto de la col·lecció privada d'escacs Elke Rehder d'un gravat en fusta de 1850 de Vincenz Grimm Čeština: foto z Elke Rehder soukromé šachové kolekce s 1850 dřevorytu Vincent Grimm
context_page_description: Vincent Grimm was a Hungarian chess master.
  Born in Vienna, he moved to Pest, Hungary in 1823. Grimm has a wide variety of professions and hobbies throughout his life. He was an artist, an art dealer, a pianist, a linguist, a well known billiards master, a gifted drawer, consequently a lithographer and a cartographer. He was also a president of the Pesth Chess Club which was founded in 1839. Grimm, along with József Szén, Johann Löwenthal, J. Oppenheim, the Zenner brothers, and other players from city of Pesth won a chess correspondence match against Paris between 1842 and 1846, and scored a shocking 2–0 victory, while introducing the Hungarian Defense: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7.
  Grimm received an invitation to compete in the London 1851 chess tournament. He, however, had been involved in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 against the Habsburg Empire, and was arrested for printing and distributing subversive literature - the famous Kossuth bank notes. He was exiled in Aleppo, Syria, and was unable to take his place in the tournament.
  In Syria/Turkey, he converted to Islam, and changed his name to either Murad Bey or Mustafa Bey. He returned to Hungary in 1868.
context_section_description: Vincent (Vincenz, Vince) Grimm (1800, Vienna – 15 January 1872, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master.
  Born in Vienna, he moved to Pest, Hungary in 1823. Grimm has a wide variety of professions and hobbies throughout his life. He was an artist, an art dealer, a pianist, a linguist, a well known billiards master, a gifted drawer, consequently a lithographer and a cartographer. He was also a president of the Pesth (later Budapest) Chess Club which was founded in 1839. Grimm, along with József Szén, Johann Löwenthal, J. Oppenheim, the Zenner brothers, and other players from city of Pesth won a chess correspondence match against Paris between 1842 and 1846, and scored a shocking 2–0 victory, while introducing the Hungarian Defense: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Be7.
  Grimm received an invitation to compete in the London 1851 chess tournament. He, however, had been involved in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 against the Habsburg Empire, and was arrested for printing and distributing subversive literature - the famous Kossuth bank notes.  He was exiled in Aleppo, Syria (then Ottoman Empire), and was unable to take his place in the tournament.
  In Syria/Turkey, he converted to Islam, and changed his name to either Murad Bey or Mustafa Bey. He returned to Hungary in 1868.
  His name is attached to the Grimm Attack in the King's Gambit, Bishop's Gambit (C33): 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.Kf1 g5 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.d4 d6 7.e5.
caption: Portrait of Vincent Grimm. Wood engraving from 1850 from the Elke Rehder collection.
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