{{Short description|German chess player}} '''Samuel Mieses''' (November 1841 – January 1884) was a German chess master.
Uncle of Jacques Mieses and brother of Fabius Mieses, he studied medicine at the University of Breslau, and was one of chess pupils of Adolf Anderssen. He lost a match to him (0½–4½) in 1867, and was a frequent chess opponent of Johannes Zukertort and Jakob Rosanes in Breslau.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vistula.risp.pl/felietony/przyjzuker.htm |title=Przyjaciele Zukertorta<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2008-03-29 |archive-date=2008-06-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626074913/http://www.vistula.risp.pl/felietony/przyjzuker.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He won at Bad Ems 1871 and shared 1st with Anderssen but lost a play-off game to him at Leipzig 1871 (''Kongress des Mitteldeutschen Schachbundes'', the first Middle German Chess Congress),<ref>http://www.edochess.ca/players/p309.html Edo Historical Chess Ratings</ref> He lost a match to Johannes von Minckwitz (3½–5½) at Leipzig 1872.<ref>[http://www.chessmetrics.com Welcome to the Chessmetrics site<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mieses, Samuel}} Category:1841 births Category:1884 deaths Category:19th-century German chess players Category:19th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-chess-bio-stub}}