Max Weiss
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Miksa (Max) Weiss (July 21, 1857 – March 14, 1927) was a Hungarian chess player.
Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects. Weiss learned to play chess at age twelve, and his strength increased steadily throughout the 1880s.
- 1880, Graz, tied with Adolf Schwarz and Johannes von Minkwitz for first prize.
- 1882, Vienna, tenth, won 2 games from Johann Zukertort, and drew with Wilhelm Steinitz.
- 1883, Nuremberg, tenth
- 1885, Hamburg, tied with Berthold Englisch and Siegbert Tarrasch for second prize.
- 1887, Frankfort-on-the-Main, divided second and third prizes with Joseph Henry Blackburne.
- 1888, Bradford, tied with Blackburne for sixth prize.
- 1889, New York, tied with Mikhail Chigorin for first prize, ahead of Isidor Gunsberg and Blackburne
- 1889, Breslau, third prize.
- 1890, Vienna, first prize, ahead of Johann Bauer and Englisch.
The New York 1889 tournament was organized to find a challenger for the World Chess Championship, 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, although he did play a few Viennese events. In 1895 he defeated Georg Marco in a match, +5 -1 =1, and he tied for first in the 1895–1896 winter tournament with Carl Schlechter.
In 1905 Weiss was employed by S M von Rothschild bank in Vienna.
[edit] References
- Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld (1996). The Oxford Companion To Chess. Oxford University. ISBN 0-19-280049-3.
- 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
