12 Facts About Jacques Mieses

Jacques Mieses was one of the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE in 1950.

Jacques Mieses attained maturity as a player in 1895, just after turning 30, when he contested the 9th Chess Congress in Leipzig, followed by an exhibition tour in Russia and then a match with David Janowski.

Jacques Mieses organized the 1911 San Sebastian master tournament and insisted that all the masters' expenses were paid.

Jacques Mieses continued to actively play chess and participated in his last major event at Hastings 1946, when he was 80 years old and half a century after Hastings 1895.

The octogenarian Jacques Mieses only won a single game against a 22-year-old opponent, but secured the brilliancy prize for a game-winning attack combination.

When FIDE instituted the grandmaster title in 1950, Jacques Mieses was one of the 27 original recipients, and the oldest of them; he thus technically became the first British grandmaster.

Jacques Mieses died in February 1954, a few days before his 89th birthday.

Jacques Mieses wrote many tournament reports, but his style was regarded as fairly dry, in contrast with his wittiness in person.

Jacques Mieses largely adhered to the 19th century Romantic school of play and showed little aptitude for positional chess.

Jacques Mieses used almost exclusively e4 openings and he was the last chess master of note to make any serious use of the Center Game and Vienna Game.

Jacques Mieses often used the Scandinavian Defense and greatly developed its theory in the early 1900s.

Jacques Mieses is known for the Mieses Variation of the Vienna Game, which runs 1.