AJune 27 1954
The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri, Sunday, June 27, 1954
CHESS, with its maneuvering, its keeping several moves ahead of the opponent and its careful deliberation, would seem to be an ideal recreation for the real estate broker.
To those who recall Alexander Bisno whose activity here a decade ago included transactions involving the Brookside hotel and the Railway Exchange building, it comes as no surprise that he is a chess enthusiast, indeed an expert.
Last week stories from New York detailed an American effort (unsuccessful) to win at chess from a Russian team. At one point, a 2-faced clock caused considerable consternation with the outcome at least a moral victory for the United States player, who acquired a draw from the top Soviet contestant. Pleased at this draw decision the Associated Press reports the American player Samuel Reshevsky, “walked over to his team captain Alexander Bisno and suggested a kiss might he in order. Bisno complied, in the center of Reshevsky' s pate.”
Yes, the same Alexander Bisno, now a realtor with offices in Los Angeles. An acquaintance here, Normal Yarmo of the Yarco Realty company, says Bisno still has some Kansas City investments, the Brookside now not among them. Yarmo recalls Bisno as a “very good chess player.” As captain of the American team in New York he is a nonplaying expert.
