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July 04 1954
Albuquerque Journal, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sunday, July 04, 1954
Miller, Burkett, Dye Advance In Chess Play
Warren Miller, Albuquerque, defending state junior chess champion, upset Albuquerque champion Jack Shaw in the second round of the New Mexico State Chess Tournament in Albuquerque.
Miller; Dan Dye, Roswell, and Max Burkett, Carlsbad, enter the third round tied for the junior championship. The third, fourth and fifth rounds of the tournament will be played today.
The Albuquerque youth will meet Gene Shapiro, Walker Air Force Base, a member of the Manhattan Chess Club, this morning.
Other second-round results are:
Gordon Charlton, Las Vegas, defeated J. R. Cole, Albuquerque; Max Miller, Albuquerque, defeated Wilson, Albuquerque; Shapiro defeated F. T. Coleman, Florence, R. D. Adair, Albuquerque, defeated I. D. Inniss, Albuquerque; Roger Haines, Albuquerque, defeated Floyd Miller, Albuquerque, and Hall Jones, Albuquerque, defeated Frank Groesbeeck, Albuquerque.
Third-round matches will include Miller and Shapiro, Charlton and Jones, and Haines and Adair.
July 06 1954
The Albuquerque Tribune, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tuesday, July 06, 1954
CHESS CHAMPS: Top players in the New Mexico chess tournament finals here yesterday are (standing left to right), Gene Shapiro of Roswell, state champion; Warren Miller of Albuquerque, state junior chess champ; Max Burkett of Carlsbad, third place winner. Seated are Jack Shaw (left), Albuquerque's city champion, and Hall Jones of Albuquerque, second place winner in the junior division. (Redman photo)
Max Burkett (Aug. 11, 2023) notes: “Hall Jones wasn't a junior. He was my opponent in my first USCF rated game a year earlier, only a few months after I learned the moves, and a victim of believing a beginner couldn't draw with 2 rooks versus a queen in a complicated game, this in the 1954 New Mexico Open. And Gene Shapiro wasn't from Roswell, he was from New York City, a draftee stationed at Kirtland AFB in Abq. Warren Miller was my age, my best friend in the chess world and, for the next few years, a better chess player than I.”
