Mayer, György




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1900  175  2277 (48) 21
1901  151  2298 (50) 0
1902  128  2318 (44) 21
1903  118  2328 (54) 0
1904  118  2338 (57) 0
1905  112  2348 (56) 0
1906  105  2357 (49) 18
1907  118  2344 (58) 0
1908  139  2331 (62) 0
1909  171  2318 (62) 0
1910  191  2304 (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. 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
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1901-1920, page 311
   Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 171

Tournament data

Munich 1900 (2)     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: 13 Sept. 2023