Larry Evans
Larry Melvyn Evans ( born March 22, 1932 in New York; † November 15, 2010 in Reno ) was an American chess player and chess journalist.
Life
Larry Evans was raised in Manhattan and showed as a teenager great chess talent. He played on the street chess small amounts of money and won the championship three times the Marshall Chess Club. In 1949 he was shared with Arthur Bisguier, Youth champion of the United States. In 1950 he took as a reserve player in Dubrovnik participated in his first Chess Olympiad, where he obtained with 9 points from 11 games an outstanding result for which he was awarded a gold medal. In 1951, he was national champion of the United States and settled there among other Samuel Reshevsky behind. In 1952 he became International Champion. In the prestigious countries fighting U.S. - USSR he won in 1954 against Mark Taimanov (2:1 in a draw ), losing to David Bronstein ( 1 loss, 3 draws ) a year later. In 1957 he was awarded the grandmaster title and was appointed by the U.S. State Department to chess ambassador. 1961/62 and 1968, he won, in each case in the absence of Bobby Fischer, once again the USA Championship. In international tournaments, he scored less significant success, so he came Interzonal in Amsterdam in 1964 ranked only 14th Evans then gave his own ambitions on the world title, but supported his fellow fishermen Sekundant. He also worked on his book My sixty memorable games. Evans remained until 1976 a member of the national team came in 1980, and again on the first place in the national championship, shared with Walter Browne and Larry Christiansen. The United States Chess Federation took him in 1994 to the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.
On 15 November 2010 against 15 clock he died at Washoe Hospital in Reno, Nevada, from complications after a gall bladder operation.
His best Historical Elo rating was 2673 in August 1952, that he was one of the twenty best players in the world.
Scripture Combinatorial activity
Evans developed early on a brisk journalistic and literary activity. In 1950 he gave out in a limierten edition of 500 copies, the game collection David Bronstein 's best games of chess, 1944-1949. In 1958 he published the book New ideas in chess, which was a great sales success. Since 1960, he had a regular column in the most widely circulated American chess magazine Chess Life & review, in which he answered readers' questions about chess topics. Between 1961 and 1965 he also worked on the journal American chess quarterly. In 1965 he edited the 10th edition of Modern Chess Openings, a standard work on opening theory. In total, he wrote over twenty chess books.
From 1973 he worked as a journalist for the Washington Post and other newspapers; a selection of 300 of his article was published in 1982 under the title The chess beat ( ISBN 0-08-026926-5 ). He also reported for magazines such as TIME magazine about major chess events, including the match of the century in the World Chess Championship 1972 between Fischer and Spassky.