Carl Mayet

Carl Mayet ( born August 11, 1810 in Berlin, † May 18, 1868 ) was a German chess master.

Mayet came from a Huguenot family. He was until 1828 students in the oldest existing high school in Berlin, the high school to the Grey Abbey, and afterwards studied law in Berlin and Heidelberg. In addition to Ludwig Bledow, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, Tassilo von der Lasa and Heydebrand and Wilhelm Hanstein ( a cousin Mayets ) he was after 1836 one of the leading masters of Berlin players and member of the Berlin Pleiades. He contributed valuable opening analysis over the Spanish section to the first edition of the Bilguerschen manual.

Mayet, Judicial Council, and later worked as a lawyer and notary with the Municipal Court of Berlin, had been first added in 1840 for a few years after Potsdam and Szczecin. Back in the Prussian capital, he was in the 1850s and then the last active player of the Pleiades. In addition to the competitions in the circles of Berlin, he has performed well against other leading chess players of his time, among others - each in Berlin - against József SZEN (1839 2 = 1), Augustus Mongredien (1845 3 -3 = 1 ), Daniel Harrwitz ( at the turn of 1847/48 2 -5 = 2) and Jean Dufresne (1853 5 -7). Between 1850 and 1868 Mayet often played against Adolf Anderssen, when he visited in transit or during the holidays Berlin. As Anderssen in 1859 stayed a few days in Berlin, Mayet won " in the two quick ausgefochtenen bets of seven sweepstakes ever a game ", and in April 1865 he scored in eight games, two wins and a draw.

1851 took Mayet in the first international chess tournament in history in London in part, but he was defeated in the first round against Hugh Alexander Kennedy and retired. He took part in the first 1853 club championship of the Berlin Chess Club and was named after Jean Dufresne and Max Lange third parties.