Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary.
Weiss learned to play chess at age 12, and his strength increased steadily throughout the 1880s.
In fact, having become one of the top players in the world, Weiss quit international chess after this tournament, though 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 1895–6 winter tournament with Carl Schlechter.
Around this time, Weiss began working to create a Viennese school of chess players.