Max Fleissig

Miksa (Max) Fleissig (10 November 1845, in Csenger – 23 January 1919) was a Hungarian-born Austrian chess master.

Dr. Maximilian Fleissig tied for 7-8th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won),[1] played (scoring 5.5/12) at Vienna 1875 (Philipp Meitner won),[2] and tied for 4-7th at Vienna 1882 (Vincenz Hruby won).[3][4]

His name is attached to the Fleissig Gambit in the Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3).[5][6]

Max (Miksa) Fleissig was the elder brother of Bernhard Fleissig.

References
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  2. "I tornei fino al 1880". Archived from the original on December 16, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
  3. "Edo Ratings, Fleissig, M". Edochess.ca. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
  4. Anders Thulin (2004-09-01). "Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition" (PDF). Malmö. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-04. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
  5. "Listing". Webcitation.org. Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
  6. "F". Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2008.


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