Miksa (Max) Fleissig (10 November 1845 in Csenger – 23 January 1919) was a Hungarian-born Austrian chess master.
Fleissig tied for 7-8th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne won), played (scoring 5.5/12) at Vienna 1875 (Philipp Meitner won), and tied for 4-7th at Vienna 1882 (Vincenz Hruby won).
The Fleissig Gambit in the Sicilian Defence (1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3) is named for him.
He was the elder brother of Bernhard Fleissig.
References
- "Vienna". Archived from the original on March 29, 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2008.
- "I tornei fino al 1880". Archived from the original on December 16, 2008. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
- "Edo Ratings, Fleissig, M". Edochess.ca. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
- 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.
- "Listing". Webcitation.org. Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
- "F". Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
External links
- Max Fleissig player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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