Arthur Bisguier

Arthur ( " Art"), Bernard Bisguier ( born October 8, 1929 in the Bronx, New York City ) is an American grandmaster in chess.

Life

Arthur Bisguier learned chess at the age of 5 years. His first success he achieved during his time in junior high school when he won the championship of New York students. 1945 for the first time one of his games was published in the magazine Chess Review, in February 1947, he brought it up on the front page. In 1948, he won the Junior Championship of the United States and defended this title a year later. Also in 1949 he won the championship of the prestigious Manhattan Chess Club. In 1950 he won the Open Championship of the United States in Detroit and attended along with Savielly Tartakower shared first place at a tournament in the English Southsea. Him the title of International Master was awarded for this success. From 1951 to 1953 he served in the United States Army and was stationed at that time in Germany, he frequented there Bürstädter the chess club. Bisguier was only the rank of private, but was lucky to find a chess enthusiasts superior, Colonel Eugene P. Ely to have. This could Bisguier 1952/53, to participate in an international tournament in Vienna, he could win from 11 games with 9 points.

After his return to the U.S., he won a 1954 tournament in Hollywood, where he succeeded against players like Larry Evans, Isaac Kashdan and Nicolas Rossolimo, as well as the national championship of the United States, where he reached 10 points from 13 games and remained unbeaten. Second-placed Evans called Bisguier later. Than the largest natural talent of the United States Bisguier but decided against a professional career, completed a college education, reaching in 1955 a degree in Economics (Bachelor of Business Administration). During this time he was the chess consultant Alex Bernstein, the programmed one of the first chess computers for IBM, the IBM 704 Bisguier then got himself a job at IBM and worked as a programmer and technical writer. About a match against Samuel Reshevsky in New York in 1957, which he lost 4-6, he wrote: After a full day I bought Fast food takeaway, took a taxi to Manhattan Chess Club and ate my food while we were playing.

Despite occupational exposure he still scored numerous successes in chess. At the national level, he won in 1956 and 1959, the U.S. Open, in 1957 he shared first place with Robert James Fischer.

At international level, he was able to twice qualified for the Interzonal. There, however, he could not place it in the front of the field itself: in Gothenburg 1955, he was 17 of 21 participants, in Stockholm in 1962 16 of the 23 participants. However, in Gothenburg he managed a win against Boris Spassky. When Candidates Tournament in Curaçao in 1962 he was the Sekundant fisherman.

Between 1952 and 1972, played Bisguier five Chess Olympiads for the United States, scoring 46.5 points from 82 games. His best finish in the Olympics he reached Leipzig in 1960, when he made 11.5 points from 16 matches. He also represented the U.S. in fighting countries, for example in a radio match against Yugoslavia in 1950, in which he won 1.5-0.5 against Borislav Ivkov, as well as against the USSR in 1954 in New York (2-2 against Tigran Petrosian ) and 1955 in Moscow ( Vasily Smyslov 0-4 against ).

In later years he came to individual successes. In 1973, he won the Open in Lone Pine, 1979, he was the overall winner of the Chess Grand Prix, a series of open tournaments in the USA. 1989, 1997 and 1998, he won the U.S. Senior Open. Thus he managed to become national champion in all age groups. To date, he takes part in chess tournaments.

His best Historical Elo rating is 2634, so it was in December 1956 to rank 32 in the world.

Since 1959, he is married to the lawyer Carol, with whom he has two daughters.

Journalist and official

In the 1960s he worked for the magazine Chess Review, in the 1980s as a chess columnist for the Christian Science Monitor.

Together with Andrew Soltis he published the book American chess masters from Morphy to Fischer ( ISBN 0-02-511050-0 ) 1974.

In the U.S. Chess Federation United States Chess Federation, he spent 20 years as an active speaker. As a delegate, he participated in meetings of the World Chess Federation FIDE and was a member of the planning committee for the world championship fights.

Title and Credits

In 1957 he was Grand Master.

In 1994, he was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.

In 2005, the United States Chess Federation awarded him the honorary title of Dean of American Chess. So you paid tribute to his contribution to the popularization of chess in the USA. Bisguier undertook during his career numerous tours throughout the country and claimed of himself that no one had played more chess games than he.

Game

One of his most famous roles played Bisguier 1956 against the eventual world champion fisherman. It was played in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York, succeeded in the fishing also known as the game of the century. However, against the then reigning national champion, the emerging talent had to admit defeat. This, however, remained Bisguiers only victory against Fischer, who retaliated in the following years with 13 wins. This Bisguier has the worst record of all players against Fischer.

Bisguier - Fishing

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 0-0 6.Sf3 c5 7.Le2 cxd4 Bd7 10.0-0 Rc8 9.Sc2 8.Sxd4 Nc6 12.b3 a6 11.Le3 Sa5 13.e5 dxe5 14.fxe5 Se8 15.Sd5 Tc6 16.Sd4 Rc8 17.Sc2 Tc6 18.Scb4 Te6 19.Lg4 Txe5 20.Lb6 DC8 21.Lxd7 Dxd7 22.Lxa5 e6 23.Sd3 Th5 24.S3f4 Tf5 25 Bb4 exd5 26.Lxf8 Lxa1 27.Dxa1 Kxf8 28.Dh8 Ke7 29.Te1 Kd8 30.Sxd5 Qc6 31.Df8 Qd7 32.Td1 Tf6 33.Dxe8 1-0