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Miksa (Max) Weiss (July 21 1857, Sereď–1927) was a Hungarian chess player. 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.

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 in Baron Rothschild's banking-house at Vienna.

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