Philipp Meitner (24 August 1839, Vienna – 9 December 1910, Vienna) was an Austrian lawyer and chess master. His most famous game was the "

Immortal Draw The Immortal Draw is a chess game played in 1872 in Vienna by Carl Hamppe and Philipp Meitner. This game is the main claim to fame of both Hamppe and Meitner, and has been reprinted widely. The variation of the Vienna Game it uses was named the ''H ...

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Carl Hamppe Carl Hamppe (1814 in Switzerland – 17 May 1876, in Gersau, Canton of Schwyz) was a senior government official in Vienna as well as a Swiss-Austrian chess master and theoretician. He played matches with Johann Löwenthal (4 : 5) in 1846, Ernst F ...

vs Philipp Meitner, Vienna 1872). He won at Vienna 1875, and won a match against

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). ...

(6½–3½) at Vienna 1878. Meitner played in two strong international tournaments in the Vienna 1873 and Vienna 1882. He tied for 7–8th in the first tournament (

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

Joseph Henry Blackburne Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene during the latter part of the 19th century. Blackburne learned the game at the relatively late ...

won), and took 14th in the second one (

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). He also tied for 8–9th at Vienna 1882 (

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 ...

won), took 8th at Vienna 1895 (

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 ...

won), took 4th at Vienna 1908 (

Richard Réti Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian, chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exc ...

won), and tied for 6–7th at Vienna 1909/1910 ( Trebitsch Memorial, Réti won). Meitner studied at the Vienna Polytecnic, and William Steinitz was a fellow student. Philipp Meitner was the father of Dr.

Lise Meitner Elise Meitner ( , ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on rad ...

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1838 births 1910 deaths Austrian chess players Austrian Jews Jewish chess players TU Wien alumni 19th-century chess players Game players from Vienna {{Austria-chess-bio-stub

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