AThe Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, Sunday, July 22, 1956
Champions Compete In U.S. Open Tourney 22 Jul 1956, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Champions Compete In U.S. Open Tourney
The tournament for the Open Championship of the United States Chess Federation got under way Monday night in Oklahoma City with 115 chess players gathered from all parts of the United States and Mexico.
Arthur B. Bisguier, U.S. champion, was among the winners in the first round, defeating Thomas Jenkins of Detroit. Edmar Mednis, New York State champion, won from F. E. Bartholy of Binghamton, N.Y. Newly crowned Junior Champion Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn started with a victory over F. Swan of Midwest City, Okla.
The upset of the opening round was the defeat of Col. Jose J. Araiza, Mexican champion, by Dr. Steven J. Shaw, professor of economics at the University of Florida. Another surprise was the defeat of Dr. Peter Lapiken of Los Angeles by relatively inexperienced Rex V. Wilcox of Salinas, Cal.
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Junior Winners 22 Jul 1956, Sun The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) Newspapers.com
Junior Winners
Bobby Fischer, 13-year-old from Brooklyn, won the national junior championship with a score of 8½–1½ in the tournament completed at the Franklin Chess Club in Philadelphia.
Arthur Feuerstein of New York, who had been favored to win, tied for second at 8-2 with Charles Henin of Chicago. Sidney Geller of Philadelphia finished fourth with 7-3, followed by George Baylor, Hollidaysburg, Pa., and David Kerman, Detroit, who scored 6-4. Sanford Greene of Mt. Vernon was next with 5½-4½.
Feuerstein won the national junior speed championship in a field of 18, scoring 4½-½ in the finals. Fischer was second in this event with 4-1 and William Lombardy of New York third, 3½-1½
