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Heinz Matthai

Number of games in database: 25
Years covered: 1931 to 1965
Overall record: +11 -9 =5 (54.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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HEINZ MATTHAI
(born Apr-27-1908, 117 years old) Germany (federation/nationality Canada)
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Last updated: 2025-04-24 11:35:14

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. H Matthai vs S Heinemann  ½-½501931Lower Saxony CongressB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
2. H Matthai vs F Ueberhagen  1-0231931Lower Saxony CongressC14 French, Classical
3. Tarrasch vs H Matthai  1-0341932Lower Saxony CongressD68 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Classical
4. O Sarapu vs H Matthai 1-0201948HanoverB18 Caro-Kann, Classical
5. I Zalys vs H Matthai  0-1321954Montreal City ChD25 Queen's Gambit Accepted
6. H Matthai vs J Rauch  1-0361955Montreal City ChA07 King's Indian Attack
7. M Fox vs H Matthai  0-1401955Montreal LeagueB32 Sicilian
8. R Siemms vs H Matthai  1-0501955Canadian ChampionshipA34 English, Symmetrical
9. H Matthai vs G Raletich  1-0371955Canadian ChampionshipB01 Scandinavian
10. R Draxl vs H Matthai  0-1481955Canadian ChampionshipC81 Ruy Lopez, Open, Howell Attack
11. H Matthai vs P Vaitonis  1-0341955Canadian ChampionshipA07 King's Indian Attack
12. L Joyner vs H Matthai  1-0811955Canadian ChampionshipA21 English
13. H Matthai vs W Jursevskis  ½-½301955Canadian ChampionshipB25 Sicilian, Closed
14. H Matthai vs I Theodorovich  0-1461955Canadian ChampionshipA45 Queen's Pawn Game
15. M Fox vs H Matthai 1-0481955Canadian ChampionshipC75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
16. H Matthai vs F Bohatirchuk  0-1361955Canadian ChampionshipC73 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
17. F R Anderson vs H Matthai  ½-½181955Canadian ChampionshipC48 Four Knights
18. H Matthai vs G Fuster  1-0371955Canadian ChampionshipB50 Sicilian
19. H Matthai vs J N Williams  1-0391956Montreal City ChB10 Caro-Kann
20. T Popov vs H Matthai  0-1281956Canadian OpenA34 English, Symmetrical
21. H Matthai vs H Berliner  0-1431956Canadian OpenB04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
22. Fischer vs H Matthai ½-½1081956Canadian OpenB77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
23. H Matthai vs P Vaitonis  0-1351956Canadian OpenD01 Richter-Veresov Attack
24. R Weininger vs H Matthai  0-1291956Canadian OpenC50 Giuoco Piano
25. H Matthai vs B Saacke  ½-½411965GER-ch48 Kandidatenturnier10B25 Sicilian, Closed
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Sep-22-10
Premium Chessgames Member		  GrahamClayton: 1954 Montreal City and Quebec Open champion. 7th in 1955 Canadian championship. 2nd 1956 Montreal championship. 1963 Montreal Open "A" section winner.
Feb-06-22  login:

Heinz Matthai

27.04.1908 - ??


Niedersächsische Landeseinzelmeisterschaften 1947-1964

'.. Es ist insofern von herausragendem Wert, weil Kurt Pfaff über die Meisterschaft [19]64 hinaus sämtliche Landesmeisterschaften der Nachkriegszeit von 1947 bis 1964 aufgelistet hat, und zwar jedes Meisterturnier mit allen Teilnehmern und Ergebnissen. 91 Schachspieler [almost entirely given with full name and DOBs] haben in den 18 Jahren an den Meisterturnieren teilgenommen. Die meisten sind längst verstorben, so auch Kurt Pfaff [author of the present bulletin]. ..'

https://www.schachfreunde-hannover....

from 'Schachfreunde Hannover' website by chronicler Gerhard [Streich], 2013


Plus de matchs [not yet in the DB] de 1er Championnat Ouvert du Canada, 1956

https://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/fqe/cont...


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Mar-23-25  Alan McGowan: In a brief bio prepared for the 1955 Canadian championship, it is stated that Heinz Matthai - not Hans - was born 1908 in Hannover (thanks to Stephen Wright).

It also mentions that he was champion of Lower Saxony three times, and this is confirmed at https://nsv-online.de/ruhmeshalle/?...

<login> suggested 27 April 1908 as the dob, and this is confirmed by a Hannover birth record in Ancestry for Heinz Ferdinand Friedrich Max Matthai.

Matthai arrived in Canada in 1953 and immediately made his presence felt by winning the 1954 Montreal City Ch and the 1954 Quebec Open Ch, as pointed out by <GrahamClayton>.

All references to Matthai in Montreal newspapers show his name as Heinz. The last mention of him is 1963.

CG has one game from a 1965 German Ch Candidates event at Kiel, Germany (ChessBase has many more). The July 1965 Deutsche Schachzeitung, p225, shows a list of participants, including Matthai. The report mentions that there was a mix of old and young players.

There is a memorial stone in a cemetery in Verden, Lower Saxony, for Heinz Matthai 1908-1970. https://verdener-familienforscher.d...

Apr-22-25  Chessist: A Mr. Matthäi is buried in the Verden cemetery, not a Mr. Matthai. The chess player's date of death is different.
Apr-22-25
Premium Chessgames Member		  perfidious: The scroll of players who sat across the board from Tarrasch and Fischer must be short indeed; Euwe is the only other who comes to mind in the moment.
Apr-23-25  Chessist: The year of death (1970) should be deleted from the biography, as there is no evidence that the person named on the gravestone ("Matthäi") is identical with the chess player (who bore the different name "Matthai").

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