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• Game, Irving Rivise vs. Arthur Spiller, 1950.
• Game, Eugene Levin vs. Irving Rivise, Hollywood Chess Group Championship, 1951.
• Game, Robert Merton Jacobs vs. Irving Rivise, Southern Preliminaries of State Championship, 1951.
• Game, Irving Rivise vs. Arthur Spiller, California State Championship Finals, 1951
• Game, Alberto Lopez vs. Irving Rivise, Capablanca Chess Club of Havana and the Hollywood Chess Group, 1951.
• Game, Irving Rivise vs. Alberto Lopez, Capablanca Chess Club of Havana and the Hollywood Chess Group, 1951.
• Game, Samuel Reshevsky vs. Irving Rivise, Reshevsky Exhibitions, 1952.
• Game, Irving Rivise vs. Stephen Sholomson, Southern California Chess Championship, 1959.

Vol. IV, No. 1, August, 1954, California Chess Reporter; Mr. & Mrs. George F. Goehler, Irving Rivise, and Henry Gross' son and severest critic, Peter.

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Vol. 4, No. 4, California Chess Reporter, December 1954. Seated, left to right: William Addison, Sven Elias Almgren, James Cross, Eugene Levin, Ray Martin. Standing: Dmitri Poliakoff, Milton O. Meyer, Irving Rivise, Herman Steiner, Jim Schmitt.

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Vol. 4, No. 4, California Chess Reporter, December 1954. Irving Rivise, Los Angeles.

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U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. 1955 Officials of the Southern California Chess League (Left to right:) Kyle Forrest, Secretary; Irving Rivise, President; Herman Steiner, Tournament Rules Committee; Nancy Roos, Photographer; (standing) Charles E. Gray, Vice President; and William J. Wheeler, Treasurer.

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U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. Hollywood Chess Group (left to right) Herman Steiner, Senior Master; Harry Borochow, Expert; Irving Rivise, Master, and Jack Moscowitz, Master.

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U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. Hollywood Chess Group (seated) Paul Harmat, Isaac Kashdan, Grandmaster, Mrs. Lena Grumette, Herman Steiner, Senior Master, Mrs. Nancy Roos, and Irving Rivise, Master (standing) Bob Jacobs, Guthrie McClain (visiting), Sam Geller, P. V. Nielsen and George F. Goehler.

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U.S. Open Chess Championship, California Chess Reporter, August 1955. 1955 Hollywood “A” Team (seated) Gene Rubin and Herman Steiner (standing) Irving Rivise, Morris Gordon and Bob Jacobs.

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Vol. 6, No. 4, California Chess Reporter, November 1956, Gilbert Ramirez vs. Irving Rivise (Background: Sam Geller, Arthur B. Stamer)

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Vol. 6, No. 4, California Chess Reporter, November 1956, Irving Rivise

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Play by Clock 04 Sep 1961, Mon The Fresno Bee (Fresno, California) Newspapers.com

PLAY BY CLOCK—Guthrie McClain of San Francisco standing the director of the California State Open Chess Tournament looks on as Tibor Weinberger right of Glendale the 1959 champion battles it out with Irving Rivise of Los Angeles during elimination rounds. Awards will be presented to the 10 top finishers.

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Samuel Reshevsky and Bobby Fischer during their 1961 match (New York/California). The final position from the 5th game is on the board from July 27. For a few years, much ado was made over the question whether former U.S. champion Sammy Reshevsky or young Fischer the reigning U.S. champ were the superior. Reshevsky felt certain he could defeat Fischer in tournament play. However, upon reaching Los Angeles, California, the referee Irving Rivise (seen standing, dressed in a black suit) broke the tournament rules, and without gaining young Mr. Fischer's consent, changed the schedule for a second time, to an earlier starting time, solely to accommodate his personal schedule to arrive earlier, at the San Francisco U.S. Open. For this flagrancy, Mr. Fischer forfeited his round. The news outlets published a distortion of events, claiming Piatigorsky's cello was the underlying cause. However, the Los Angeles Times interviewed the organizers and confirmed the specific reason was to accommodate Mr. Rivise's scheduled trip to San Francisco. Without Mr. Fischer's consent. See: The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California Monday, August 14, 1961 Chess Champ Forfeits by Failing to Appear U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer forfeited his 12th match game with former champion Samuel Reshevsky when he failed to appear on time Sunday. The match, set for the Herman Steiner Chess Club, 8801 Cashio St., at 11 a.m. was declared forfeited after the supervising committee waited an hour for Fischer to show up. A spokesman for the committee said Fischer had protested the starting time was “too early” and that he wanted the match to begin at the time originally scheduled, 1:30 p.m. The time had been advanced, it was explained, to permit the referee and the committee to be on hand for a championship tournament scheduled to open in San Francisco today. Fischer and Reshevsky were engaged in a 16-game match and had completed 11 up until Sunday's forfeiture. The final four games were to have been played in New York. The two contestants had been tied in the number of victories. https://bobby-fischer-1961.blogspot.com/2018/06/chess-champ-forfeits-by-failing-to.html Chess Champ Forfeits by Failing to Appear 14 Aug 1961, Mon The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com

Chess Champ Forfeits by Failing to Appear
U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer forfeited his 12th match game with former champion Samuel Reshevsky when he failed to appear on time Sunday.
The match, set for the Herman Steiner Chess Club, 8801 Cashio St., at 11 a.m. was declared forfeited after the supervising committee waited an hour for Fischer to show up.
A spokesman for the committee said Fischer had protested the starting time was “too early” and that he wanted the match to begin at the time originally scheduled, 1:30 p.m.
The time had been advanced, it was explained, to permit the referee [IRVING RIVISE] and the committee to be on hand for a championship tournament scheduled to open in San Francisco today.
Fischer and Reshevsky were engaged in a 16-game match and had completed 11 up until Sunday's forfeiture. The final four games were to have been played in New York. The two contestants had been tied in the number of victories.

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Vol. 9, No. 1-2, California Chess Reporter, August-September 1959, Irving Rivise vs. Imre Koenig at Board One. Photo by George Lydeard

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Vol. 10, No. 4-5, California Chess Reporter, November-December 1960, (Seated) Tibor Weinberger, Zoltan Kovacs, Sven Almgren, Herbert Dasteel Jr., Frank Hufnagel (Standing) Carl Diesen, William G. Addison, Irving Rivise, Julius Loftsson, Jack Blackstone.

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