Mayer, György




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1900  185  2276 (48) 21
1901  155  2296 (50) 0
1902  131  2316 (44) 21
1903  123  2326 (54) 0
1904  117  2336 (57) 0
1905  114  2346 (56) 0
1906  105  2356 (49) 18
1907  124  2342 (58) 0
1908  145  2329 (62) 0
1909  179  2316 (62) 0
1910  198  2302 (58) 14

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: Mayer, György  
Born: 1861
Died: 24 Oct. 1929
 
Notes:
Di Felice gives 'Mayer, Lajos' as the name of the player at Hamburg 1902 and Nuremberg 1906. Gaige (Chess Tournament Crosstables) gives just 'Mayer' for the first of these, but 'G. Mayer' for the second. Gaige also has 'G. Mayer' at Hamburg 1910, where Di Felice has 'Maier, Georg', but the two players of the latter name were too young for Hamburg 1910. There was also a Mayer at Munich 1900. The book Magyar Sakktörténet, Vol.3, makes it clear that the player at all of these events was György Mayer, of Hungary, and gives his age at death as 68, which would imply a birth year of 1860 or 1861. Alan McGowan (personal communication) found a record of baptism of a Gyorgy Meyer in Hungary in 1861, but the identification seems uncertain, especially given the spelling of the surname. Magyar Sakktörténet, Vol.1 (p.170), however has a 'Mayer György' in Temesvár (TimiÛaura).
 
References
Books
   Barcza, Magyar Sakktörténet, Vol.1, page 170, 173, 189
   Barcza and Földeák, Magyar Sakktörténet, Vol.3, page 204, 205, 206, 208, 209
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1901-1920, page 311
   Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 171

Tournament data

Munich 1900 (15)     12th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier A     10.5  /  21
Hanover 1902 (2)     13th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier A     11  /  21
Nuremberg 1906 (5)     15th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier, Section 4     7.5  /  9
Nuremberg 1906 (7)     15th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier Final     4  /  9
Hamburg 1910 (2)     17th German Chess Federation Congress - Hauptturnier A     6.5  /  14


Player information updated: 20 Sept. 2025