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Maróczy, Géza 
  
 
 
| Ratings 
 
 
  | Year | Rank | Edo | Dev. | Games |  
  | 1892 | 11 | 2533 | (76) | 5 |  
  | 1893 | 7 | 2553 | (67) | 0 |  
  | 1894 | 5 | 2573 | (55) | 4 |  
  | 1895 | 6 | 2593 | (41) | 38 |  
  | 1896 | 6 | 2593 | (36) | 30 |  
  | 1897 | 7 | 2589 | (41) | 0 |  
  | 1898 | 9 | 2585 | (31) | 48 |  
  | 1899 | 4 | 2612 | (32) | 36 |  
  | 1900 | 4 | 2639 | (32) | 49 |  
  | 1901 | 3 | 2629 | (41) | 0 |  
  | 1902 | 2 | 2619 | (34) | 32 |  
  | 1903 | 3 | 2617 | (32) | 42 |  
  | 1904 | 2 | 2644 | (37) | 10 |  
  | 1905 | 2 | 2666 | (29) | 77 |  
  | 1906 | 2 | 2632 | (31) | 44 |  
  | 1907 | 3 | 2616 | (30) | 47 |  
  | 1908 | 6 | 2611 | (33) | 38 |  
  | 1909 | 5 | 2591 | (47) | 0 |  
  | 1910 | 11 | 2571 | (49) | 0 |  
  | 1911 | 13 | 2551 | (44) | 14 |  
  | 1912 | 15 | 2547 | (47) | 18 |  
  | 1913 | 19 | 2535 | (57) | 0 |  
  | 1914 | 20 | 2523 | (63) | 0 |  
  | 1915 | 20 | 2511 | (65) | 0 |  
  | 1916 | 23 | 2499 | (63) | 0 |  
  | 1917 | 24 | 2487 | (58) | 6 |  
  | 1918 | 22 | 2492 | (57) | 0 |  
  | 1919 | 20 | 2497 | (50) | 0 |  
  | 1920 | 16 | 2502 | (35) | 37 |  
  | 1921 | 16 | 2509 | (34) | 21 |  
  | 1922 | 14 | 2533 | (27) | 74 |  
  | 1923 | 10 | 2558 | (31) | 36 |  
  | 1924 | 16 | 2538 | (31) | 43 |  
  | 1925 | 17 | 2535 | (39) | 8 |  
  | 1926 | 17 | 2521 | (34) | 35 |  
  | 1927 | 12 | 2544 | (35) | 31 |  
  | 1928 | 10 | 2530 | (38) | 8 |  
  | 1929 | 17 | 2498 | (30) | 43 |  
  | 1930 | 18 | 2486 | (26) | 72 |  
  | 1931 | 24 | 2482 | (30) | 40 |  
  | 1932 | 18 | 2494 | (31) | 41 |  
  | 1933 | 30 | 2470 | (41) | 13 |  
  | 1934 | 39 | 2463 | (49) | 0 |  
  | 1935 | 50 | 2456 | (49) | 0 |  
  | 1936 | 52 | 2449 | (41) | 31 |  
  | 1937 | 68 | 2425 | (57) | 0 |  
  | 1938 | 101 | 2401 | (68) | 0 |  
  | 1939 | 120 | 2377 | (75) | 0 |  
  | 1940 | 161 | 2353 | (81) | 0 |  
  | 1941 | 198 | 2330 | (84) | 0 |  
  | 1942 | 230 | 2306 | (86) | 0 |  
  | 1943 | 272 | 2282 | (87) | 0 |  
  | 1944 | 313 | 2258 | (87) | 0 |  
  | 1945 | 384 | 2234 | (86) | 0 |  
  | 1946 | 432 | 2210 | (83) | 0 |  
  | 1947 | 409 | 2186 | (79) | 7 |  
 
Rating table notes
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| Biographical data |  | 
   | Name: Maróczy, Géza József |  
   | Born: 3 Mar. 1870 |  
   | Died: 29 May 1951 |  |  |  
   | Notes: |  
   | Sergeant gives date of birth as 3 Mar. 1869; Gaige gives 3 Mar. 1870. |  |  |  |  
   | References |  | 
| Books |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1901-1920, page 311 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1921-1930, page 330 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1931-1935, page 393 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1936-1940, page 364 |  
   | Di Felice, Chess Results, 1947-1950, page 11 |  
   | Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachturniere, page 271, 303 |  
   | Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 88 |  
   | Forster, Amos Burn, page 591, 699, 964 |  
   | Forster, Negele and Tischbierek, Emanuel Lasker, Vol.I, page 47, 165 |  
   | Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 270 |  
   | Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia, page 192 |  
   | Harding, Joseph Henry Blackburne, page 356, 377, 578 |  
   | Hilbert, Emil Kemeny, page 309 |  
   | Hilbert, Napier, page 140 |  
   | Hilbert, Young Marshall, page 106 |  
   | Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (1st ed.), page 203 |  
   | Hooper and Whyld, Oxford Companion (2nd ed.), page 247 |  
   | Sánchez, José Raúl Capablanca, page 485 |  
   | Sergeant, Century of British Chess, page 225 |  
   | Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 167 |  
   | Woodger, Reuben Fine, page 352 |  | Web |  
   | Giffen, Glen.  [Maroczy, Geza] |  
   | Kmoch, Hans.  [Grandmasters I have known: Géza Maróczy] |  
   | Sarah.  [Monte Carlo 1902 - Page 1] |  
   | Sarah.  [Monte Carlo 1902 - The Players] |  
   | Sericano, C.  [Maestri di scacchi dal 1900 al 1944] |  
   | [Maróczy Géza] |  |  | 
 Match data  (f=formal; c=casual; s=soft)
 
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Exner, G. 1894 | (f) | 3 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Charousek, R. - Maroczy, G.J. 1895 (1) | (f) | 2 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Charousek, R. - Maroczy, G.J. 1895 (2) | (f) | 5 | - | 9 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Exner, G. 1899 | (f) | 4.5 | - | 1.5 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Olland, A.G. 1900 | (f) | 3 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Finn, J. 1906 | (f) | 0.5 | - | 0.5 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Shipley, W.P. 1906 | (f) | 1 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Marshall, F.J. 1906 | (f) | 0.5 | - | 0.5 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Delmar, E. (1) 1906 | (f) | 1 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Fox, A.W. 1906 | (f) | 1 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Labatt, L.L. 1906 | (c) | 2.5 | - | 1.5 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Dixon, B.V.B. 1906 | (c) | 1 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Farrar, E.H. 1906 | (c) | 3 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Tullis, R.L. 1906 | (c) | 2 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - McGrath, M.D. 1906 | (c) | 1 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - McConnell, Ja. (1) 1906 | (c) | 1 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Sterk, K. 1907 | (f) | 3.5 | - | 2.5 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Sterk, K. 1917 | (f) | 3.5 | - | 2.5 |  |  
  | Euwe, M. - Maroczy, G.J. 1921 | (f) | 6 | - | 6 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Olland, A.G. 1922 | (f) | 4 | - | 0 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Vidmar, M. 1922 | (f) | 1 | - | 1 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Kostic, B. 1922 | (f) | 4 | - | 4 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Nagy, G. 1928 | (f) | 6.5 | - | 1.5 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Weenink, H.G.M. 1930 | (f) | 6 | - | 2 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - van den Bosch, J.H.O. 1930 | (f) | 1.5 | - | 1.5 |  |  
  | Maroczy, G.J. - Landau, S. (1) 1930 | (f) | 3 | - | 0 |  |  Tournament data 
  | Budapest 1892 (2) | Budapest Winter Tournament - Class Ia | 4 | / | 5 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1895 (1) | Budapest Chess Circle Tournament - Class I | 7.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hastings 1895 (3) | 7th British Amateur Championship - Section III | 6 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Maroczy, G.J. - Owen, J. | 1 - 0 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hastings 1895 (5) | 7th British Amateur Championship - Final Section | 2.5 | / | 3 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Nuremberg 1896 | Nuremberg Tournament | 12.5 | / | 18 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1896 | Budapest Tournament | 5 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1898 (3) | Kaiser Jubiläumsturnier | 19.5 | / | 36 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1898 | Nagy-Teteny Tournament | 8 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | London, England 1899 (3) | London Major Tournament | 17 | / | 26 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1899 | Budapest Tournament | 3 | / | 4 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1900 | 2nd Kolisch Memorial Tournament | 9 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Paris 1900 | Paris International Tournament | 14 | / | 20 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Munich 1900 (16) | 12th German Chess Federation Congress - Meisterturnier | 12 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Maroczy, G.J. - Pillsbury, H.N. | 0 - 1 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1902 (1) | Vienna Tournament (2) | 3.5 | / | 8 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Monte Carlo 1902 | Monte Carlo International Tournament | 17.5 | / | 24 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Monte Carlo 1903 | Monte Carlo Tournament | 19 | / | 26 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1903 (1) | King's Gambit Accepted Tournament | 9 | / | 18 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Monte Carlo 1904 (1) | Monte Carlo Tournament | 7.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1905 (1) | King's Gambit Declined Tournament | 13 | / | 16 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1905 | Budepest Chess Club Tournament | 19.5 | / | 20 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Ostend 1905 (1) | Ostend Tournament | 19.5 | / | 26 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Barmen 1905 (1) | Barmen Tournament - Meisterturnier A | 10.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Ostend 1906 (1) | Ostend Tournament - First Stage, Section A - Section B | 6 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Ostend 1906 (4) | Ostend Tournament - Second Stage, Section B - Section D | 4 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Ostend 1906 (6) | Ostend Tournament - Third Stage, Section B - Section C | 2.5 | / | 4 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Ostend 1906 (8) | Ostend Tournament - Fourth Stage, Section B | 3 | / | 3 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Ostend 1906 (11) | Ostend Tournament - Fifth Stage | 4.5 | / | 8 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1907 (1) | 1st Trebitsch Memorial Tournament | 8.5 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Copenhagen 1907 (1) | Nordic Chess Tournament - Master Tourney | 4.5 | / | 8 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Carlsbad 1907 | Carlsbad Tournament | 14.5 | / | 20 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1908 | Vienna Tournament | 14 | / | 19 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Prague 1908 (1) | Prague Master Tournament | 11.5 | / | 19 |  |  |  |  |  
  | San Sebastian 1911 (1) | San Sebastian Master Tournament | 6 | / | 14 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1912 (2) | Budapest Queen's Gambit Declined Tournament | 2.5 | / | 5 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1912 (3) | Budapest Tournament | 11 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1920 (1) | Vienna Tournament | 3.5 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Utrecht 1920 (1) | Utrecht Tournament | 2.5 | / | 3 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Amsterdam 1920 (1) | Amsterdam Tournament | 4 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Goteborg 1920 (1) | Göteborg Tournament - Section A | 6 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Berlin 1920 (13) | Berlin Tournament | 4.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | The Hague 1921 (1) | The Hague Tournament | 5.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Weston-Super-Mare 1922 | West of England Chess Festival | 6.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | London, England 1922 (1) | British Chess Federation Congress - Master Tournament | 8 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Teplitz-Schönau 1922 (1) | 1st Congress of the German Chess Federation in Czechoslovakia - Master Tournament | 5.5 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Vienna 1922 (1) | Austrian Chess Association Congress - Master Tournament | 8 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Amsterdam 1922 | United Amsterdam Chess Club Winter Tournament | 8.5 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Liverpool 1923 (1) | Northern Counties Chess Union Congress - Master Tournament | 7.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Carlsbad 1923 | Carlsbad Tournament | 11.5 | / | 17 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Scheveningen 1923 | Netherland Chess Federation Congress - Match Tournament | 8 | / | 10 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hastings 1924 (1) | 4th Hastings Christmas Congress - Premier Tournament | 7 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | New York 1924 (1) | New York Tournament | 10 | / | 20 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Gyor 1924 (1) | Hungarian Chess Federation Congress - Master Tournament | 7.5 | / | 14 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hastings 1925 (1) | 5th Hastings Christmas Congress - Premier Section 1 | 6.5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hastings 1925 (6) | 5th Hastings Christmas Congress - Premier Play-off |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Maroczy, G.J. - Tartakover, S.G. | 0.5 - 0.5 |  |  |  |  |  
  | New York 1926 (2) | Manhattan Club - Marshall Club Match |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  
  |  | Maroczy, G.J. - Marshall, F.J. | 0 - 1 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Lake Hopatcong 1926 | Pan-American Tournament | 4.5 | / | 8 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Chicago 1926 (3) | 27th Western Chess Association Meeting - Master Tournament | 8 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | New York 1926 (6) | Manhattan Club Championship | 8.5 | / | 14 |  |  |  |  |  
  | New York 1927 (3) | Manhattan Club Championship | 11 | / | 14 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Copenhagen 1927 | Copenhagen Tournament | 4 | / | 5 |  |  |  |  |  
  | London, England 1927 (3) | 1st Olympiad | 9 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Ramsgate 1929 (1) | 22nd Kent County Chess Association Congress - British vs Foreigners | 4.5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Carlsbad 1929 | Carlsbad Tournament | 10 | / | 21 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Rogaska Slatina 1929 | Rogaska Slatina Tournament | 10 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hastings 1930 (1) | 10th Hastings Christmas Congress - Premier Tournament | 4.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | San Remo 1930 | San Remo Tournament | 7.5 | / | 15 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Nice 1930 (1) | Nice Master Tournament | 6.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Scarborough 1930 (1) | 23rd British Chess Federation Congress - Master Tournament | 7.5 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Hamburg 1930 (2) | 3rd Olympiad | 8 | / | 12 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1931 (1) | 9th Hungarian National and Szavay Memorial Tournament | 9 | / | 14 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bled 1931 | Bled Tournament | 12 | / | 26 |  |  |  |  |  
  | London, England 1932 (3) | London International - Premier Tournament | 6 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Budapest 1932 (1) | 10th Hungarian National Tournament | 13 | / | 17 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Bad Sliac 1932 | Bad Sliac Major Tournament | 8 | / | 13 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Folkestone 1933 (2) | 5th Olympiad | 2.5 | / | 6 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Scheveningen 1933 | Dutch Chess Association Congress - International Tournament | 5.5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Dresden 1936 | Dresden Tournament | 5.5 | / | 9 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Zandvoort 1936 | Zandvoort Tournament | 6 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Munich 1936 | Unofficial Olympiad | 6 | / | 11 |  |  |  |  |  
  | Baarn 1947 (1) | Baarn Tournament - Group A | 2.5 | / | 7 |  |  |  |  |  
 
| Player information updated: 20 Sept. 2025 |  
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