• >:< UNITED STATES ~- ~-" ~ , - , , EDITOR: J. F. Reinhardt CONTRIBUTORS Weaver Adams. Leonard Barden, Peter Berlow, ArthUr Bisguier. R. E. Braine, Dr. Richard Cantwell, John W. Collins, Fred Cramer, Edward A. Dickerson, Major E. B. Edmondson, Arpad Elo, Larry Evans, Kenneth Harkness, Eliot Hearst, Edward Lasker, William Lombardy, Erich Marchand, Ernest Olfe, Jerry Spann. Gary Sperling, CHESS FEDERATION Raymond Weinstein, Fred Wren. PRESIDENT Fred Cramer 1,000 MORE MEMBERS IN 7 MONTHS! Apr. '62 Nov. '62 Apr. '62 Nov. '62 VICE PRESIDENT I Massachusetts 233 246 VI Illinois 338 392 Major Edmund B. Edmondson, Jr. Connecticut 137 151 Wisconsin 169 187 Rhode Island 31 38 Minnesota 116 119 SECRETARY Maine I. 23 Iowa 5Q 69 Marshall Rohland New Hampshire 24 Nebraska 41 39 Vermont I'3 6 South Dakota I2 II REGIONAL VICE·PRESIDENTS North Dakota 9 NEW ENGLAND William C. Newberry James Burgess 442 488 Montana •6 14 Ell Bourd"n Wyoming 5 6 EASTERN Charles A. 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N.Y. 270 CHFSS LIFE lion that he knows thoroughly, and Re· shevsky would ordinarily have seen UPSETS MARK START OF through the Addison continuation that cost him a full point U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP Attendance at the tournament, which is being held at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York City, has been excellent The 1962-63 U. S. Chess Champion· only makes this ODe of tbe strongest in spite of the New York newspaper ship got off to a snappy and somewhat U. S. championships ever held but adds strike and the resultant loss of pub­ bizarre start on Sunday. December 16, greatly to its interest and excitement. liCity. Present at the opening round on when Bobby Fischer, Samuel Rcshevsky Addison, who resides in Los Angeles, December 16 were many o( the USCF's and Larry Evans aU lost their first-round has been achieving sensational results in top officials and regional organizers in­ games against oPPosition rated anywhere California tournaments during the past cluding President Fred Cramer, Interna­ from 105 to 269 points below them on few months, and his first-round win over tional Affairs Chairman Jerry Spann, the USeF's rating scale. Reshevsky indicates that he clearly ranks and regional vice-presidents David Hoff· among the country's finest players. After mann, Charles A. Keyser and Mordecai Fischer's loss - to Edmar Mednis­ six rounds of play he was tied for sec· Treblow. wasn't registered until several days lat­ ond plaCe with Benko and Byrne (3¥Z er, since the game was adjourned in each) behind grandmaster Arthur Ris· what seemed to be a fairly even position guier's leading score of 4Jk. -OOPS 1- after five hours' play. Reshevsky, bow­ ever, was clearly lost at adjournment The long-awaited Fischer·Reshevsky Accompanying the cover photo of Sam· time and resigned against William Addi­ duel took place in tbe firth round and uel Reshevsky in the November CL is son without resuming. Larry Evans' de­ was adjourned in a position tbat favored the caption; "Gunning for No.8." feat was at the hands or Robert Stein­ Fischer. At one point Fischer could have The first tournament to decide a u:t. meyer. won a piece by means of a mating threat national championship took place in but went in for a weaker continuation­ New York City in 1936. Reshevsky won As we went to press on the November one that will probably win, however. the champi.onship {our times in a row: issue (see p. 238) Addison and Fischer Nor was Bobby alone in his "Chess in 1936, 1938, 1940 and after a playoff had not yet responded to the USCF in­ blindness": Rossolimo resigned to Bis­ with Isaac Kashdan (7!h-3lh) in 1942. vitations to play. Their acceptance not guier, after 16 moves, in a Sicilian varia· Reshevsky won again In 1946, making a total of live wins in all. The caption should therefore have been: "Gunning THE FIRST SIX ROUNDS for No.6." Resbevsky did not play in 1944, 1948, 19M and 1961-62. -, Bobby Fi~her also won four times in Round I Round IV a row; in 1957/8; 1958/ 9; 1959/60; and Benko ................ Ih Bisguier .............. * Bisguier ................ 1 Rossolimo ............ 0 1960161. He did not compete in 1961/62. Addison ................ 1 Reshevsky ............ 0 Berliner ........ ........ 1 Mednis .................. 0 In the current championship, he is gun· Steinmeyer .......... 1 Evans .................... 0 Evans .................. % Fischer ... ......... .... ¥Z ning for number five. Sherwin ................ 0 Berliner .. ....... ....... 1 Reshevsky .......... % Byrne .................. % In the February 5, 1960 issue of Byrne .................. .. 1 Rossolimo ............ 0 Benko ................ 'h Sherwin .............. 'It CHESS LIFE, after the 1959·60 Cham­ Fischer ............... .0 Mednis .................. 1 Addison ................ 1 Steinmeyer .......... 0 pionship in which Reshevsky finished in third place, I wrote: "This marks the !irst time in the history of the U. S. Round II Round V Championships since 1963 (he competed Bisguier .............. 1 Mednis .................. 0 Steinmeyer ........ 1,2 Bisguier .............. lk in nine of them) that he has finished Rossolimo .......... 1,2 Fischer .............. ¥Z Sberwin .............. lk Addison .............. 'It lower than second. But no ODe can take from him his brilliant simultaneous ex­ Berliner .............. 1,2 Byrne .................. Ih Byrne .................. lk Benko .................. % hibitions as ·a child prodigy, his splen­ Evans .................... 1 Sherwin .. ...... ... .....0 Fischer ................... Reshevsky ............ did record in the long history of the Reshevsky ............ 1 Steinmeyer .......... 0 Mednis ................... Evans .................... U. S. championships and in interna· Benko .. ................ 'k Addison ....... ....... ¥Z Rossolimo·Berlincr postponed tional tournaments, both individual and team, and bis great contribution to the development of chess in the U.S.A." Round III Round VI Addison .............. .. 0 Bisguier ........... ... 1 Bisguier .............. % Berliner ............ 'k Surely this remarkable record needs no exaggeration by an inaccurate cap­ Steinmeyer .......... 0 Benko .................... 1 Evans .................