Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an
Austria
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n
chess
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player born in the
Kingdom of Hungary
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.
Weiss was born in
Sereď
Sereď (; hu, Szered ) is a town in southern Slovakia near Trnava, on the right bank of the Váh River on the Danubian Lowland. It has approximately 15,500 inhabitants.
Geography
Sereď lies at an altitude of above sea level and covers an are ...
. Moving to
Vienna
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, he studied
mathematics
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and
physics
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at the
university
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, and later taught those subjects.
Weiss learned to play chess at age 12, and his strength increased steadily throughout the 1880s.
*1880,
Graz
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, tied with
Adolf Schwarz
Adolf Schwarz (31 October 1836, Gálszécs, Hungary, now Sečovce, Slovakia – 25 October 1910, Vienna) was an Austro-Hungarian chess master.
He took 10th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won). ...
and
Johannes von Minckwitz
Johannes Minckwitz (April 11, 1843, Leipzig – May 20, 1901, Biebrich) was a German chess player and author.
Origins
He was the son of German classical scholar and author Johannes Minckwitz.
Chess play
His best achievement was 2nd place, behi ...
for first prize.
*1882,
Vienna
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, tenth, won two games from
Johann Zukertort, and
drew
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with
Wilhelm Steinitz
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.
*1883,
Nuremberg
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, tenth.
*1885,
Hamburg
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, tied with
Berthold Englisch
Berthold Englisch (9 July 1851, Hotzenplotz – 19 October 1897, Vienna) was a leading Austrian chess master.
Englisch was born in Austrian Silesia (then Austria-Hungary) into a Jewish family. He earned his living as a stock-market agent.
He won ...
and
Siegbert Tarrasch
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Life
Tarrasch was born in Bresla ...
for second prize.
*1887,
Frankfort-on-the-Main
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, divided second and third prizes with
Joseph Henry Blackburne
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.
*1888,
Bradford
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, tied with Blackburne for sixth prize.
*1889,
New York
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, (the sixth
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First American Che ...
), scored +24−4=10 to tie with
Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great ...
for first prize, ahead of
Isidor Gunsberg
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and Blackburne.
*1889,
Breslau, third prize.
*1890,
Vienna
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, first prize, ahead of
Johann Bauer and Englisch.
The New York 1889 tournament was organized to find a challenger for the
World Chess Championship
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The first event recognized as a world championship was the World Chess ...
, but neither Chigorin (who had already lost a championship match) nor Weiss pursued a title match with Steinitz.
In fact, having become one of the top players in the world, Weiss quit international chess after this tournament, though he did play a few Viennese events.
In 1895 he defeated
Georg Marco
Georg Marco (29 November 1863 – 29 August 1923) was an Austrian chess player.
He was born in Chernivtsi (Cernăuţi), Bukovina (then part of Austria-Hungary). He later settled in Vienna and was secretary of the Viennese Chess Association.
I ...
in a match, +5 −1 =1, and he tied for first in the 1895–6 winter tournament with
Carl Schlechter
Carl Schlechter (2 March 1874 – 27 December 1918) was a leading Austro-Hungarian chess master and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century. He is best known for drawing a World Chess Championship match with Emanuel Lasker.
Early life
Sc ...
.
Around this time, Weiss began working to create a Viennese school of chess players.
In 1905 Weiss was employed by
S M von Rothschild
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bank in Vienna.
His chess writings, ''Schach-Meistersteich'' (Mühlhausen 1918), ''Kleines Schachlehrbuch'' (Mühlhausen 1920), and the earlier problem collection ''Caissa Bambergensis'' (Bamberg 1902), are little remembered today. In 1927 Weiss died in Vienna, Austria.
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See also
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List of Jewish chess players
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