AAdditional Games
- Chessgames
- Game, Larry Evans vs. Reuben Fine, Hollywood Chess Group Championship, 1951.
- Game, Herbert Seidman vs. Larry Evans, 1951.
- Game, Larry Evans-Lodewijk Prins vs. Samuel Reshevsky-Al Horowitz, New York, 1951.
- Game, Paul Vaitonis vs. Larry Evans, 1959
- Game, Larry Evans vs. Robert Byrne, Silver Jubilee Invitation Tournament, Log Cabin Chess Club, West Orange, New Jersey, 1959
- Game, James Cross vs. Larry Evans, 8th Round of Log Cabin Invitational tournament, 1959.
Larry Evans
March 22, 1932 - November 15, 2010
Larry Evans 23 Dec 1951, Sun The Miami News (Miami, Florida) Newspapers.com
Larry Evans
U.S. Chess Champ
Larry Evans, Miguel Colon, P. V. Santiago Lavandero 25 Jul 1952, Fri The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) Newspapers.com
CHESS CHAMPION IN ACTION
Larry Evans, left, is shown in an early match in the United States open championships in Tampa. His opponent is Miguel Colon former Puerto Rican champion. Looking on is P. V. Santiago Lavandero of Puerto Rico. Evans is leading the play by one point.
Vol. IV, No. 1, August, 1954, California Chess Reporter; Isaac Kashdan vs. Larry Evans (second prizewinner), with Nicolas Rossolimo in the background.
Vol. 5, No. 1, California Chess Reporter, July 1955. Larry Evans.September 01 1956
The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Canada Saturday, September 01, 1956
Bill Lombardy Ties Sherwin In Chess Open
(Caption) EXPERIENCE COUNTS: Shortly after this picture was taken 13-year old Bobby Fischer, New York Junior Chess Champion, looked up with a grin and knocked over his king in the traditional concession of inevitable defeat at the hands of Montreal Architect Joseph Sawyer, who was Canadian Chess Champion in 1908 but admits only to having “been around a long time.” The two played a fast, friendly game at Redpath Hall of McGill yesterday while waiting for the resumption of play in the First Canadian Open Chess Championship. Young Fischer is one of the contestants in the tournament; Young Sawyer said he no longer competes because “a five-hour game is a little tough these days.” Others in the picture are, left to right, John J. Prentice, president of the Canadian Chess Federation, Sidney Bernstein of New York and Larry Evans of New York.
The Sun Times, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Tuesday, September 04, 1956
Young Producer Wins Canadian Chess Tourney
By Marven Moss, Canadian Press Staff Writer
Montreal (CP)—Larry Evans, 24-year-old New York city film producer and No. 2 ranking United States chess player, Sunday night won the first Canadian open chess championship, a 10-round, $1,300 event.
Evans finished the tournament in a point-total tie with William Lombardy, 18-year-old student at City College of New York, but captured the crown on the basis of a pre-determined tie-breaking system involving the scores of defeated and drawn opponents.
U.S. speed champ since 1949, Evans accumulated eight points on seven wins, one loss and two draws. Lombardy, who won his home state championship at the age of 16, had eight points on six wins and four draws, playing against weaker opposition.
ACCOUNTANT TIES
Lionel Joyner, a 24-year-old Montreal accountant who holds the city and Quebec provincial titles, and Pavolis Vaitonis, 48, Hamilton, a former Canadian national champion, were grouped a half-point behind the New Yorkers with three other Americans.
With seven points were Dan (Abe) Yanofsky, Winnipeg, Frank Anderson, Toronto, J. Noel Williams, Montreal, Bobby Fischer, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Nicholas Bakos, Forest Hills, N. Y.
The $500 first place prize money and $300 second place money was combined and both Evans and Lombardy received $400.
Atilio DiCamillo, Philadelphia, Edmar Mednis, New York City, and Sherwin were tied with Vaitonis and Joyner.
The tournament, which will be held biennially, attracted 88 entries from five Canadian provinces, seven U.S. states and Guatemala. Six entrants, far down in the standings, retired before the final round.
Evans had 47½ points and Lombardy 46. The pair did not meet in the tournament.
Siegfried Schmitt, 23-year-old Kitchener office worker, won his final match to finish the tournament with a 6-4 record. His father, Josef, 47, a machinist, had 3½ points.
North Bay Nugget, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, Monday, September 10, 1956
Secret Of Top Chess
By MARVEN ROSS
MONTREAL (CP)— You don't need to be a university graduate to play chess of championship calibre, says Larry Evans, the No. 2 ranking chess expert in the United States.
“Strong power of concentration is, perhaps, the most important requisite,” says Evans, who is preceded in United States rankings only by Samuel Reshevsky of New York, an international grand master. Apart from the intricacies of a chess board, big chess tournaments usually attract many spectators, “and spectators mean noise.”
Evans, 24-year-old film producer in New York City was winner of the first Canadian open chess championship played here recently.
NEED PATIENCE
He declares that higher education, beyond the fact that it stimulates thought, has little connection with good chess playing. Himself a graduate of City College of New York Evans says that a person with vivid imagination, patience, stamina and ability to concentrate has the makings of a top-flight chess player even if he hasn't gone past elementary school.
“Good chess is mostly a knack,” he says. Contrary to popular belief among non-players, the game does not involve a profound knowledge of higher mathematics.
“There are some schoolboys in their teens and even pre-teens who can provide tough opposition for older, more-experienced chess experts. A good example is Bobby Fischer, at 13 one of the stronger players in North America.”
Fischer, from Brooklyn, N.Y., won the U.S. junior title at Philadelphia this year and finished in a fourth-place tie in the Canadian open tourney here, bracketed with such chess experts as Dan (Abe) Yanofsky of Winnipeg and Frank Anderson of Toronto.
STARTED AS INFANT
Evans, himself, took up chess when five years old under the tutelage of an older brother. Larry, a dark, wavy-haired youth, is the third of three sons of a New York mail-order house operator.
He gained his spurs in 1946 by winning the junior championship of New York City's Marshall Chess Club, one of the strongest on the continent. A year later, he won the regular club crown.
Since then, he has captured the U.S. open championship three times (1951, 1952 and 1954) and the U.S. national title four times (1951-1954). He has also won the U.S. speed chess tournament every year since 1949. In this tournament, players are required to make their moves within 10 seconds.
Evans plays each tournament game with devote concentration, sitting stern-faced over his board while he ponders moves. But outside the tournament room he shows a highly-developed sense of humor.
NO SUPERSTITIONS
He is a non-smoker and has no superstitions in contrast to most chess experts, who sometimes neglect shaving and wear the same tie for several days while on a winning streak. Some players consume enormous quantities of coffee while playing, but Evans is a moderate coffee drinker.
For recreation, Larry plays ping-pong, swims and frequently attends movies. He is particularly fond of watching heavy dramas and constantly seeks methods of improving his own production technique.
He was forced to abandon production of a film on juvenile delinquency temporarily to come to Montreal for the 10-round Canadian open chess tourney, Aug. 25-Sept. 2. He won the tournament and $400 in prize money.
Larry, in 1953, married a petite Kentuckian with a “cute smile and real southern drawl,” whom he met while competing in a chess tournament in Tampa, Fla.
“Arlene wandered in to see the tournament and got 'mated,'” he said with a smile.
