Philipp Meitner was an Austrian

Austrians

Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....

 lawyer and chess master. His most famous game was the "Immortal Draw" (Carl Hamppe

Carl Hamppe

Carl Hamppe was a senior government official in Vienna as well as a Swiss–Austrian chess master and theoretician....

 vs Philipp Meitner, Vienna 1872). He won at Vienna 1875, and won a match against Adolf Schwarz

Adolf Schwarz

Adolf Schwarz was an Austria-Hungarian chess master.He took 10th in the Vienna 1873 chess tournament . In 1878, he took 2nd, behind Louis Paulsen, in Frankfurt. In 1879, he took 3rd in Leipzig...

 (6.5 : 3.5) at Vienna 1878.

Meitner played in two strong international tournaments in the Vienna 1873

Vienna 1873 chess tournament

The Vienna 1873 chess tournament was a side event of the world exhibition of 1873 .-Background:...

 and Vienna 1882

Vienna 1882 chess tournament

The second international Vienna 1882 chess tournament was one of the longest and strongest chess tournaments ever played. According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was the strongest tournament in history, on the basis that nine of the ten top players in the world...

. He tied for 7-8th in the first tournament (Wilhelm Steinitz

Wilhelm Steinitz

Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier...

 and Joseph Henry Blackburne

Joseph Henry Blackburne

Joseph Henry Blackburne , nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century. He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but quickly became a strong player and went on to develop a professional chess career that spanned over 50 years...

 won), and took 14th in the second one (Wilhelm Steinitz

Wilhelm Steinitz

Wilhelm Steinitz was an Austrian and then American chess player and the first undisputed world chess champion from 1886 to 1894. From the 1870s onwards, commentators have debated whether Steinitz was effectively the champion earlier...

 and Szymon Winawer

Szymon Winawer

Szymon Abramowicz Winawer , born in Warsaw, Poland, was a leading chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883...

 won), He also tied for 8-9th at Vienna 1882 (Vincenz Hruby

Vincenz Hruby

Vincenz Hruby was a Czech chess master.He was born in Krivsoudov . Hruby worked as a teacher at a secondary school in Trieste, today's Italy. He died there as well.His best results were in 1880s and 1890s...

 won), took 8th at Vienna 1895 (Georg Marco

Georg Marco

Georg Marco was a Romanian chess player.He was born in Chernivtsi , Bukovina...

 won), took 4th at Vienna 1908 (Richard Réti

Richard Réti

Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king...

 won), and tied for 6-7th at Vienna 1909/10 (Trebitsch Memorial, Réti won).

Meitner studied at the Vienna Polytecnic

Vienna University of Technology

Vienna University of Technology is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Founded in 1815 as the "Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute" , it currently has about 26,200 students , 8 faculties and about 4,000 staff members...

, and William Steinitz was a fellow student.

Dr. Philipp Meitner was the father of Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner FRS was an Austrian-born, later Swedish, physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize...

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External links

• chess games of Philipp Meitner