AJuly 11 1955
Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, North Carolina, Monday, July 11, 1955
Yarmack Wins Chess Tourney
Saul N. Yarmak of Ft. Belvoir, Va., 1954 national junior champion, won the annual Carolinas Open Chess Championship Tournament which closed yesterday at the Battery Park Hotel.
Yarmack topped a strong field of 35 chess players from nine states and scored 5½ points of a possible 6.
Don Burdick of Huntington, W. Va., West Virginia champion, was second place winner with 5 points of a possible 6.
Dr. S. Werthammer of Huntington, W. Va., was third and Stanley Wysowski of Westbery, Conn., placed fourth. Both scored 4½ points of a possible 6.
Other contestants in the tournament and tieing for fifth place were J. G. Sullivan Jr. of Knoxville, Tenn., Bill Adickes Jr. of Asheville, Dr. Norman Horstein of Southport and C. C. Crittenden of Raleigh. All scored 4 of a possible 6 points and finished in that order under tie-breaking tourney rules.
Sullivan is a former Southern chess champion, Hornstein is president of the North Carolina Chess, Association, and Crittenden is present N.C. title holder.
Dr. Albert M. Jenkins of Raleigh was tourney director.
States representing included Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Connecticut.
Robert Ludlow of Homestead, Fla., the highest national ranking player in the tournament, scored 2½ points of a possible 6.
Other leading entrants included Louis Persinger, well known concert violinist of New York City, and Dr. L. L. Foester of Columbia, S. C., president of the South Carolina chess Association.
Members of the Asheville Chess Club were hosts for the tournament.
Contestants played six games during the tournament, with two rounds being played each day. Friday, Saturday and yesterday.
Ties were broken by a mathematical system-based on the strength of opposition, tourney officials reported.
