Max Weiss


Miksa Weisz was an Austrian 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.
The New York 1889 tournament was organized to find a challenger for the World Chess Championship, but neither Chigorin 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, Kleines Schachlehrbuch, and the earlier problem collection Caissa Bambergensis, are little remembered today. In 1927 Weiss died in Vienna, Austria.