May, Desider




Ratings

Year       Rank    Edo    Dev.   Games 
1926  334  2253 (59) 10
1927  306  2271 (54) 11
1928  268  2287 (57) 0
1929  237  2303 (56) 0
1930  224  2320 (49) 12
1931  232  2315 (49) 0
1932  230  2310 (42) 23
1933  252  2301 (45) 11
1934  288  2283 (51) 0
1935  310  2265 (50) 9
1936  255  2268 (51) 15

Rating table notes

Biographical data
Name: May, Desider  
Born: 17 Mar. 1900
Died: 5 Aug. 1942
 
Notes:
Gaige gives date of death as 'c1940'. Yad Vashem gives date of death as 5 Aug. 1942. Gaige and Di Felice have 'O. May' where it should be Desider May at Moravska Ostrava 1926. Gaige has 'A. May' and Di Felice has 'May, Anton' where it should be Desider May at Stubnanske Teplice 1930. Di Felice has both 'May, Desider' and 'May, Deszo' in Chess Results 1936-1940, but 'Dezső' and 'Desider' are variants of the same name, so I presume these refer to the same person.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1921-1930, page 146, 186, 331
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1931-1935, page 394
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1936-1940, page 364
   Gaige, Chess Personalia, page 274
   Thulin, Name index to CTC, page 171
Web
   [May Desider]

Tournament data

Moravska Ostrava 1926     Moravska Ostrava Tournament     4.5  /  10
Znojmo 1927     Znojmo Tournament     6.5  /  11
Stubnanske Teplice 1930     Stubnanske Teplice Tournament     6.5  /  12
Bad Sliac 1932     Bad Sliac Tournament     3.5  /  13
Kosice 1932     Kosice Tournament     6.5  /  10
Mnichovo Hradiste 1933 (1)     13th Czechoslovakia Championship     4.5  /  11
Zilina 1935     Slovensko Championship     4  /  9
Budapest 1936 (2)     14th Hungarian National Tournament     6  /  15


Player information updated: 16 Nov. 2022