Lev Taussig

{{short description|Czech chess player}} '''Lev Taussig''' (born 1880 – ?) was a Czech chess master.

He took 2nd, behind Oldřich Důras, at Prague 1905 (the 1st ''UJCS Kongress'', Czech Chess Championship),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chess.cz/www/souteze/mcr-muzi/_2007/historie.html |title=ŠSČR » Historie MČR mužů |accessdate=2008-11-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003061743/http://www.chess.cz/www/souteze/mcr-muzi/_2007/historie.html |archivedate=2008-10-03 }}</ref> tied for 6-8th at Nuremberg 1906 (the 15th DSB Congress, ''Kongreß des Deutschen Schachbundes, Hauptturnier A'', won by Savielly Tartakower), won at Prague 1906, took 5th at Brno 1907 (the 2nd CZE-ch, František Treybal won), took 2nd behind Duras at Prague 1907,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |title=Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition |accessdate=2007-07-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704030849/http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf |archivedate=2007-07-04 }} , Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01</ref> and took 4th in the Prague 1908 chess tournament (the Main Tournament, Karel Treybal won).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.praguechess.cz/en/index.php?orderby=1573|title=Untitled Document}}</ref>

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