Max Fleissig - Biography

Miksa (Max) Fleissig (born 10 November 1845, Csenger – died ?) 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), played (scoring 5.5/12) at Vienna 1875 (Philipp Meitner won), and tied for 4-7th at Vienna 1882 (Vincenz Hruby won).

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

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

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