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- Game, Lisa Lane vs. Edward Arbetter, New England Amateur Tournament, 1959.
October 06 1959
Chess Champion, 22, Became Whiz In Two Years 06 Oct 1959, Tue The York Dispatch (York, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
PRETTY CHESS CHAMPION, 22, BECAME WHIZ IN TWO YEARS
PHILADELPHIA, AP — She's petite. She's pretty. She's 22. And she's the United States women's chess champion.
Her name is Lisa Lane.
Lisa has been playing chess only about two years. But already, her play has tabbed her as on of the top players in the nation.
She was a philosophy major at Temple University in the Summer of 1957 when she went to a Philadelphia coffee house and someone—she doesn't remember who taught her to play chess.
Since then, her main interest has been chess.
“I had never even seen anybody play chess,” Lisa admits. “I just knew it was the name of a game, like whist is a game, but that was all I knew about it.”
As she became more adept at the game, she resolved to learn all she could about it.
“It became like dope to me,” she says. “I would stay up until five or six in the morning playing chess.”
Lisa spent a whole year learning to play well. In the morning she took lessons from Attilio Di Camillo, instructor of many of Philadelphia's better chess players.
In the afternoon she would play at a Philadelphia chess club, recording every move so that Di Camillo could go over the games later and point out her mistakes.
In the evening she played just for fun.
Less than a year after she learned the difference between a rook and a pawn in March, 1958 — Lisa won the Philadelphia woman's chess championship.
She won the U. S. women's championship at Asbury Park, N. J., last May.
Next year she'll be one of nine women in the United States Invitational Tournament. The top two players from that event will play in the international matches in Europe in 1961.
Chess Champion, 22, Became Whiz In Two Years 06 Oct 1959, Tue The York Dispatch (York, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com
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