For the football player of the same name see Larry Evans (football player). Lawrence Eugene Evans (born November 7, 1953 in Biloxi Mississippi) is a former Linebacker of the Denver Broncos.
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Larry Melvyn Evans (born March 23, 1932) is an American chess grandmaster and journalist. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends He has won the U.S. Chess Championship four times. The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national Chess champion
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Chess career
Evans was born in Manhattan and learned much about the game by playing for ten cents an hour on 42nd Street in New York City. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York 42nd Street is a major crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known for its Theaters especially near the intersection The City of New York He became a rising young star. At age 14, he tied for fourth/fifth place in the Marshall Chess Club championship. The Marshall Chess Club in New York City is one of the oldest and strongest Chess clubs in the United States The next year he won it outright, becoming the youngest Marshall champion up until that time. He also finished equal second in the U. S. Junior Championship, which led to an article in the September 1947 issue of Chess Review. Chess Review (January 1933 to April 1941 The Chess Review) is a U Evans tied with Arthur Bisguier for first place in the U. Arthur Bernard Bisguier (born 8 October 1929) is an American Chess International Grandmaster, chess promoter and writer S. Junior Chess Championship of 1949. By age 18, he had won a New York State championship as well as a gold medal in the Dubrovnik Chess Olympiad of 1950. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous ||-||-||-||-||-||-||} Dubrovnik (ˈdǔbro̞ːʋniːk Dalmatian: Ragusa; Latin: Ragusium, also Rhausium, Rhaugia; The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other In 1951, he won his first U.S. Chess Championship ahead of Samuel Reshevsky. The US Chess Championship is an invitational tournament held to determine the national Chess champion Samuel Herman (Sammy Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1911, Ozorków near Lodz, (then Russian Empire He went on to win the national championship another three times - in 1962, 1968 and 1980, the last in a tie with Walter Browne and Larry Christiansen. Walter Shawn Browne (born January 10, 1949 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian and American Chess Larry M Christiansen (b June 27, 1956) is a Chess Grandmaster who grew up in Riverside California
Titles quickly followed and Evans was awarded an International Master title by FIDE in 1952. The title International Master is awarded to outstanding Chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the In 1956 the U.S. State Department appointed him a "chess ambassador" and he became a Grandmaster in 1957. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE.
Evans performed well in many U. S. events during the 1960s and 1970s but his trips abroad to international tournaments were infrequent and less successful. He won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1951, 1952, 1954 (he tied with Arturo Pomar but won the title on the tie-break) and tied with Walter Browne in 1971. The US Open Championship is an open national Chess championship that has been held in the United States annually since 1900 Arturo Pomar Salamanca (born 1 September 1931 Palma de Mallorca) a Spanish chess Grandmaster. Walter Shawn Browne (born January 10, 1949 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian and American Chess In addition he won the first Lone Pine tournament in 1971 and represented the U. Lone Pine International was a series of Chess tournaments held annually in March or April from 1971 to 1981 in Lone Pine California. S. in seven Chess Olympiads over a period of twenty years, winning one gold medal and one silver medal for his play, and in 1966 one team silver medal.
His best results on foreign soil included two wins at the Canadian Open Chess Championship, 1956 in Montreal, and 1966 in Kingston, Ontario. The Canadian Open Chess Championship is Canada 's Open Chess championship first held in 1956 and held annually since 1973 usually in mid-summer Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Kingston Ontario is a Canadian city located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St He finished first in the 1975 Portimao International in Portugal and second equal behind Jan Hein Donner in Venice, 1967. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Johannes Hendrikus "Jan Hein" Donner ( July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch Chess grandmaster Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the However, his first, and what subsequently proved to be his only, crack at the World Chess Championship title ended in a disappointing 14th place in the Amsterdam Interzonal of 1964. See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation
He never entered the world championship cycle again, and concentrated his efforts on assisting his fellow American Bobby Fischer in his quest for the world title. Robert James "Bobby" Fischer ( March 9 1943 – January 17 2008) was an American -born Chess Grandmaster See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess He was Fischer's second for the Candidates matches leading up to the World Chess Championship 1972 against Boris Spassky, though not for the championship match itself, after a disagreement with Fischer. The Candidates Tournament was a triennial Chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE as the final contest to determine the challenger for the The World Chess Championship 1972 match between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky in Laugardalshöll, Reykjavík Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij (Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский (born January 30, 1937) is a Russian French
At his peak in October 1968 he was rated 2631 USCF. The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go.
Chess journalism
Evans had always been interested in writing as well as playing and before the age of eighteen he had already published David Bronstein's Best Games of Chess, 1944-1949 and the Vienna International Tournament, 1922. David Ionovich Bronstein (Дави́д Ио́нович Бронште́йн February 19 1924 &ndash December 5 2006) was renowned as a leading Today he is credited with having written or co-written over fifty books on chess. In 1958 his New Ideas in Chess proved very influential on the chess players of the 1950s and 1960s and it has been a consistent seller over the years.
Other well received books include Modern Chess Brilliancies (1970), What's The Best Move (1973) and Test Your Chess I. Q. (2001). He revised the tenth edition of Modern Chess Openings (1965), co-authored with editor Walter Korn. Modern Chess Openings (usually called MCO) is an important book of Chess openings first published in 1911 by the British players Richard Walter Korn ( 22 May, 1908, in Prague, Czechoslovakia – July 9, 1997, in San Mateo California) was an author He also made a significant contribution to Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games (1969), writing the introductions to each of the 60 games and had urged the future World Champion to publish when he had initially been reluctant to do so. My 60 Memorable Games is a Chess book by Bobby Fischer, first published in 1969 [1]
During the 1960s Evans developed a very successful career in chess journalism and helped found the American Chess Quarterly which ran from 1961-65. He was an editor of Chess Digest during the 60s and 70s and he still writes regularly for Chess Life, the official publication of the United States Chess Federation (USCF) and Chess Life Online. Chess Life is a monthly Chess magazine published in the United States. The United States Chess Federation ( USCF) is a non-profit organization the governing Chess organization within the United States, and one of the federations His popular question and answer column was read by more than 250,000 readers every month and ran for over thirty years, but was cut in 2006 as part of a new editor seeking a new look for the magazine. His weekly chess column, Evans on Chess, has appeared in more than fifty separate newspapers throughout the United States. He also writes a column for the World Chess Network. The World Chess Network (WCN was a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of Chess that launched in 1997 and closed ten years
Evans has also commentated on some of the biggest matches for Time magazine and ABC's Wide World of Sports, including the 1972 Fischer versus Spassky match, the 1993 PCA world title battle between Gary Kasparov and Nigel Short and the Braingames world chess championship match between Vladimir Kramnik and Gary Kasparov in 2000. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and ABC's Wide World of Sports was a long-running Sports Anthology show on American Television that ran as a series from 1961 to 1998 Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Robert James "Bobby" Fischer ( March 9 1943 – January 17 2008) was an American -born Chess Grandmaster Boris Vasilievich Spassky (also Spasskij (Бори́с Васи́льевич Спа́сский (born January 30, 1937) is a Russian French Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Nigel David Short MBE (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is often regarded as the strongest British Chess See also Development of the World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the Board game Chess Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
His contributions to chess writing and journalism have earned him many awards, including the USCF's Chess Journalist of the Year award in 2000. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. He was inducted into the U. S. Chess Hall of Fame in 1994. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar)
Selected games
This game, against future grandmaster Abe Yanofsky, who had won the brilliancy prize against Botvinnik at Groningen the year before, was Evans' first victory against a noted player:
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Yanofsky-Evans, U. S. Open, Corpus Christi 1947 1. Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. h3 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 dxe5 7. dxe5 e6 8. a3 Nc6 9. Bb5 Qd7 10. c4 Nde7 11. 0-0 Qd4 12. Bg5 a6 13. Bxe7? axb5 14. Bxf8 Rxf8 15. cxb5 Nxe5 16. Qe2 0-0-0 17. Nc3 Ng6 18. Rad1 Qe5 19. Qc2 Rxd1 20. Rxd1 Rd8 21. Rc1 Nf4 22. Kh1 Qg5 23. Rg1? (23. f3) Qh5! 24. Kh2? Rd3! 25. f3 (see diagram at left) 25. . . Rxf3! 26. Rd1? (26. Rc1 protecting the queen) 26. . . Nxh3!! Larry Parr wrote, "Larry Evans recalls 'a rush' as he played this spectacular crusher. Larry Parr is a Chess player author and editor Born in about 1942 originally from Bellevue Washington, Parr served as editor of Chess Life 'This victory,' he wrote in a recent e-mail, 'gave me my first taste of fame. If I could beat the guy who beat Botvinnik, perhaps someday I could also beat Botvinnik!'"[1] 27. gxf3 Nf2+ 28. Kg3 Qh3+! 29. Kf4 Qh2+ 30. Ke3 Ng4+! 0-1 If 31. Kd3, Ne5+ wins White’s queen. The queen (♕♛ is the most powerful piece in the game of Chess.
References
- ^ Larry Evans This Crazy World of Chess (2007) Cardoza Publishing pp. Avery Cardoza (born 1957 is an Author and Publisher. He owns Cardoza Publishing, which is partner company to Cardoza Games. 20 & pp. 29
Selected books
- What's the Best Move? (1995) ISBN 0-671-51159-9
- The 10 Most Common Chess Mistakes (1998) ISBN 1-58042-009-5
- How Good Is Your Chess? (2004) ISBN 1-58042-126-1
- New Ideas in Chess (1967) Cornerstone Library ISBN 0-486-28305-4 (1984 Dover edition)
- Modern Chess Brilliancies (1970) Fireside Simon and Schuster ISBN 0-671-22420-4
- Modern Chess Openings (1965). Dover Publications is an American book Publisher founded in 1941 by Hayward Cirker and his wife Blanche Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L 10th edition, revised by Larry Evans, edited by Walter Korn. Walter Korn ( 22 May, 1908, in Prague, Czechoslovakia – July 9, 1997, in San Mateo California) was an author Pitman Publishing
- Evans on Chess (1974). Cornerstone Library.
- This Crazy World of Chess (2007). Cardoza Publishing
External links
- FIDE rating card for Larry Evans
- Larry Evans at ChessGames.com
- Larry Evans download 419 of his games in pgn format. Avery Cardoza (born 1957 is an Author and Publisher. He owns Cardoza Publishing, which is partner company to Cardoza Games. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the ChessGamescom is a large Chess community on the Internet with over 100000 members
- http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/English/chessNews/evans/bio.php
- Statistics at ChessWorld.net
- "The facts about Larry Evans," a critical article by Edward Winter
- Grandmaster Larry Evans On Bobby Fischer, Chessville, July 30, 2004
| Preceded by Herman Steiner |
United States Chess Champion 1951–1954 |
Succeeded by Arthur Bisguier |
| Preceded by Bobby Fischer |
United States Chess Champion 1961 |
Succeeded by Bobby Fischer |
| Preceded by Bobby Fischer |
United States Chess Champion 1968 |
Succeeded by Samuel Reshevsky |
| Preceded by Lubomir Kavalek |
United States Chess Champion 1980 (with Walter Browne and Larry Christiansen) |
Succeeded by Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan |
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