Max Weiss

Miksa (Max) Weiss (July 21 1857, Sere?–1927) was a Hungarian chess player. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects.

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July 21 - 1857 - Sere? - 1927 - Hungarian - Chess - Vienna - Mathematics - Physics - University

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Weiss learned to play chess at age twelve, and his strength increased steadily throught the 1880s.

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• 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 Tchigorin 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 Tchigorin (who had already lost a championship match) nor Weiss pursued a title match with Steinitz.

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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.

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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.

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1895 - Georg Marco - Carl Schlechter

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In 1905 Weiss was employed in Baron Rothschild's banking-house at Vienna.

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