Lev Taussig (born 1880 – ?) was a Czech

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 dist ...

master. He took 2nd, behind Oldřich Důras, at Prague 1905 (the 1st ''UJCS Kongress'', Czech Chess Championship), tied for 6-8th at Nuremberg 1906 (the 15th

DSB Congress The ''Deutscher Schachbund'' (DSB) was founded in Leipzig on 18 July, 1877. When the next meeting took place in the Schützenhaus on 15 July 1879, sixty-two clubs had become member of the chess federation. Hofrat Rudolf von Gottschall became Chairm ...

, ''Kongreß des Deutschen Schachbundes, Hauptturnier A'', won by

Savielly Tartakower Savielly Tartakower (also known as ''Xavier'' or ''Ksawery'' ''Tartakower'', less often ''Tartacover'' or ''Tartakover''; 21 February 1887 – 4 February 1956) was a Polish and French chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandm ...

), won at Prague 1906, took 5th at Brno 1907 (the 2nd CZE-ch, František Treybal won), took 2nd behind Duras at Prague 1907, and took 4th in the

Prague 1908 chess tournament The first International Prague Chess Tournament was held in honour of the sixtieth anniversary of Franz Joseph I of Austria's elevation as monarch to the Austria-Hungary Empire. Twenty great masters played in the pavilion of the Chamber of Commerce ...

(the Main Tournament, Karel Treybal won).

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1880 births Czech chess players Year of death missing Chess players from Austria-Hungary {{CzechRepublic-chess-bio-stub