Taubenhaus was a leading Warsaw chess player in late 1870s and in 1880, he settled in Paris. His best performance was in London tournament 1886, where he tied for 3rd-4th places with Isidor Gunsberg behind Joseph Blackburne and Amos Burn.
While living in Paris, Taubenhaus gave lessons at the Cafe de la Régence, where he played every day.
In 1893–96, he he visited the United states. In 1893 he participated in an impromptu international tournament in New York where he finished in 7th place with a 6-7 score. The event was won by Lasker ahead of Albin.
In 1896, he participated in the 6th American Congress in New York, finishing tied with Bird in 12th place (out of 20). Then, after touring Argentina and Cuba, he returned to Europe where he was an active tournament player.
In match play he drew with Sittenfeld (Paris, 1891). He lost matches to Tarrasch (Nuremberg 1891, 1892), Mieses (Glasgow, 1895), Janowski (Paris 1903, 1905), Miguel Angel Gelly (Buenos Aires, 1907) and Walter Lovegrove (Paris, 1912).
In match play he defeated Andres Clemente Vazquez (Havana 1894/95), Albin (Paris, 1901), Villegas (Buenos Aires, 1907) and Teichmann (Paris, 1911).
Taubenhaus authored on book: Traite du Jeu d’Échecs (Treatise on the Game of Chess) published in 1910.
Taubenhaus was also a primary operator of the Mephisto chess player machine. The third automaton Mephisto was made by Charles Godfrey Gumpel, and unlike its predecessors The Turk and Ajeeb, it had no hidden operator and functioned by electro-mechanical means.
Gumpel took a few years to build it and it was first shown in 1876 at his Leicester Square home in London. It was the first automaton to win a tournament when it was entered in the Counties Chess Association at London in 1878.
Mephisto was operated mainly Isidor Gunsberg and was shown regularly for 10 years, and at one time had its own club in the UK.
When Mephisto went to the Paris Exposition in 1889 it was operated by Taubenhaus. After that it was dismantled and its subsequent whereabouts are unknown.
Jackson W. Showalter–Jean Taubenhaus0–1C376th American Congress, New YorkNew York, NY USA24.04.1889Stockfish 15.1
King's Gambit, Muzio Gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.f3 g5 4.c4 g4 Black
can avoid the Muzio with 4...Bg7 which has been recommended as a safe and
practical method of avoiding complications. 5.0-0 White offers a N hoping
to exploit black's weakness on the f-file, thereby launching an attack on
black's K. gxf3 5...d5 postponing taking the N allows a strong attack
after... 6.xd5 gxf3 7.xf3 f6 8.xf4 6.xf3 f6 This move is
definitely best since it not only barricades the f-file, but also impedes the
formation of white's P-center with d4. GM Dmitry Andreikin played the rare
move 6...Bh6 6...h6 Apparently a satisfactory move. 7.d4 h4 8.c3 c6 9.d5 d8 10.c3 d6 11.xf4 ge7 12.g3 g4 is roughly equal. Nakamura,H
(2741) -Andreikin,D (2683) Moscow 2010 7.e5 xe5 8.xf7+ According to
Steinitz, the Scottish player John Cochrane (1798-1878) played this move first
when giving the odds of the QN to inferior players. Among others, Morphy and
other masters also favored it because it can be quite trappy and it also
insures speedy cooperation of the two Rs.However, Steinitz correctly observed
that here it "actually hampers white's game...to have the b1N on the board and
lose time in its development." He was also of the opinion that the Muzio was
"too bold" for tournament play and black should be able to use his extra
material to fend off the attack. 8.d3 This prosaic move is best, but black
still should have a significant advantage because of his extra material. h6 9.c3 e7 10.d2 and black stands quite well. 8...xf7 9.d4 f5 Best. 9...xd4+ gets really crazy. 10.e3 g7 11.xf4+ f6 12.d4 g8 13.e4 c5 14.xc5 d5 15.xd5+ e6 16.xb7 bd7 Black is better, but proving it
OTB could prove to be difficult. In Shootouts black scored 5-0, but the
endings generally were long with black having a R+B+Ps against a R+Ps 10.g4 Of course 10.Bxf4 was also quite playable. g6 This surprising move which
leaves him open to a discovered check also leaves him with a winning position. 10...f6 11.c3 e7 12.xf4 e8 13.e4 leaves white with too much play. 10...e6 11.xf4 f6 12.c3 d5 13.g3 g7 14.g5 black can fend off the
attack and keep the advantage, but after g4 15.gxf6 h6 16.xd5+ e6 17.xb7 here, too, white has a lot of play. 11.c3 f6 12.xf4 d6 12...xg4+ is less accurate. 13.xg4 xg4 14.e5+ g8 15.xh8 and black's
position is not nearly a good as after the text. 13.g3 g7 Black is
clearly winning. Believe it or not, the same moves were played in a game 107
years later. 13...e7 14.ae1 c6 15.d5 d8 16.h4 xg4 17.g3 f5 18.xf5 xf5 19.xf6 xf6 20.f1 xd4 21.xf5 e2+ 22.g2 xg3 23.hxg3 hf8 24.xf6+ g7 25.e6 ae8 The ending is lost so white resigned. Lilov,V
(2259)-Filev,G (2389) Pleven 2006 14.d5 xd5 15.xd5 c6 16.c4 d5
According to Steinitz, "Black's attack with superior forces can hardly fail." 17.xd5 e6 18.b5 e7 19.xb7 e4 20.ae1 xd4+ 21.f2 d7 22.xc7
With only 3 Ps against a B and N it's clear that white must lose, but
Taubenhaus' mopping up play is instructive. c5 23.g2 d5+ 24.f3 hf8 25.f4 ac8 26.c4 xf3+ A nice finishing touch. The auto-annotation with Fritz
described Taubenhaus' play as "flawless." 26...xf3+ 27.xf3 xc7 28.g3 f2+ 29.xf2 xf4+ 30.e3 xc4 etc. 0–1
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