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'''Miksa (Max) Weisz''' (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an [[Austria]]n [[chess]] player born in the [[Kingdom of Hungary]].

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 12, and his strength increased steadily throughout the 1880s.

*1880, [[Graz]], tied with [[Adolf Schwarz]] and [[Johannes von Minckwitz]] for first prize.
*1882, [[Vienna]], tenth, won two games from [[Johann Zukertort]], and [[draw (chess)|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 City|New York]], (the sixth [[American Chess Congress]]), scored +24−4=10 to tie with [[Mikhail Chigorin]] for first prize, ahead of [[Isidor Gunsberg]] and Blackburne.
*1889, [[Breslau]], third prize.
*1890, [[Vienna]], first prize, ahead of [[Johann Hermann Bauer|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, though 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 1895–6 winter tournament with [[Carl Schlechter]].
Around this time, Weiss began working to create a Viennese school of chess players.

In 1905 Weiss was employed by [[S M von Rothschild]] 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.

==References==
*{{citation
 | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
 | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
 | publisher=McFarland
 | isbn=0-7864-2353-6
 | page=459
 | oclc=61261448}}
*{{citation
 | last=Hartston | first=William | author-link=William Hartston
 | editor-last=Golombek | editor-first=Harry | editor-link=Harry Golombek
 | year=1977 | title=Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess
 | publisher=Crown Publishing
 | isbn=0-517-53146-1
 | contribution=
 | page=342
 | oclc=2963790}}
*{{citation
 | last1=Hooper | first1=David | author1-link=David Vincent Hooper
 | last2=Whyld | first2=Kenneth | author2-link=Kenneth Whyld
 | year=1992 | title=[[The Oxford Companion to Chess]] | edition=2
 | publisher=Oxford University Press
 | isbn=0-19-280049-3
 | pages=446–7
 | oclc=34618196}}
*{{citation
 | last1=Singer | first1=Isidore | author1-link=Isidore Singer
 | last2=Porter | first2=A.
 | year=1901–1906 | title=[[Jewish Encyclopedia]]
 | contribution=Weiss, Max
 | contribution-url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=109&letter=W
 | volume=12 | pages=497–8}}

==See also==
* [[List of Jewish chess players]]

== External links ==
* {{chessgames player|id=10444}}

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