Bernhard (Bernát) Fleissig (born 1853,

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

– died 7 March 1931,

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

) was a Hungarian-born

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

master. Bernhard Fleissig took 18th in the

Vienna 1882 chess tournament The second international Vienna 1882 chess tournament was one of the longest and strongest chess tournaments ever played. According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was (as of March 2005) the strongest tournament in history, ...

(

Wilhelm Steinitz William Steinitz (born Wilhelm Steinitz; May 14, 1836 – August 12, 1900) was an Austrian and, later, American chess player. From 1886 to 1894, he was the first official World Chess Champion. He was also a highly influential writer and che ...

and

Szymon Winawer Szymon Abramowicz Winawer (March 6, 1838 – November 29, 1919) was a Polish-Jewish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883. Tournament and match results At the Paris 1867 tournament held at the Café de la Régence, his first ...

won), took 2nd, behind

Vincenz Hruby Vincenc Hrubý (9 September 1856 – 16 July 1917, Trieste) was a Czech chess master. He was born in Krivsoudov ( Bohemia). Hrubý worked as a teacher at a secondary school (Realschule) in Trieste. He died there as well. His best results were in ...

, at Vienna 1882, and tied for 2nd-3rd with

Johann Hermann Bauer Johann Hermann Bauer (23 June 1861, Kotopeky – 5 April 1891, Görz) was an Austrian chess master. Biography Bauer was born in Kotopeky in Bohemia (then in the Austrian Empire). His father was an estate owner in Kotopeky and a formally trained ...

but lost a play-off match to him (0–2) at Vienna 1890 (

Max Weiss Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects. Wei ...

won). His name is attached to the Fleissig Variation in the Scotch (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Bc5 5.Be3 Qf6 6.c3 Nge7 7.Nc2).F
Bernhard (Bernát) Fleissig was the younger brother of

Max Fleissig Miksa (Max) Fleissig (10 November 1845, in Csenger – 23 January 1919) was a Hungarian-born Austrian chess master. Dr. Maximilian Fleissig tied for 7-8th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won), p ...

External links

Chess games of Bernhard Fleissig

References

Hungarian chess players Austrian chess players Jewish chess players Chess theoreticians Hungarian Jews Austrian Jews 1853 births 1931 deaths Game players from Vienna {{austria-chess-bio-stub