The Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada Tuesday, August 21, 1956
Chess Champs To Attend 1st Canadian Match Here
The Canadian Open Chess Championship will be held in Montreal for the first time this year. Aug. 25 to Sept. 2. Many of the ranking champions on this continent are expected to participate in the 10-round championship which will be held in Redpath Hall, McGill University and, on the two Sundays, in the YHMA building, Park and Mount Royal Aves.
Frank R. Anderson, of Toronto, present Canadian champion: D. A. Yanofsky, of Winnipeg, who has been Canadian champion five times; Lionel Joyner, Quebec province champion; and Maurice Fox, of Montreal, eight times winner of the Canadian championship, will be among the Canadians taking part, officials told The Gazette yesterday.
From the United States will be Larry Evans, U.S. chess runner-up; Edmar Mednis, present New York State champion and runner-up in the World Junior Championship; and the 18-year-old wonder, William Lombardy, who was New York State champion when he was 16; Sidney Bernstein, of New York; and Hans Berliner, of Washington, D.C.
Officials hope 13-year-old Bobby Fischer, of New York, who recently caused a sensation by winning the U.S. junior championship in Philadelphia, and who tied for fourth place out of 101 contestants for the U.S. open championship in Oklahoma, will also be able to attend here.
Each contestant for the Canadian open championship will play 10 games. Players will draw for opponents in the first game and in the succeeding games will be paired, winners with winners, losers with losers. The time limit for each player, timed separately, will be 50 moves in two and a half hours.
The method of timing is that each player, equipped with a clock, presses a button on his clock when he makes his move which stops his clock and automatically starts the clock of his opponent. Thus each player is timed for his own moves only. When a player exceeds the limit of two and a half hours be becomes the loser.
Since each contestant will play only 10 games, ties are expected. Ties will be broken by measuring each of the tying contestants against the quality of their opposition during the 10 games. A win scores one point; a draw one half; and a lose zero.
The city will give a banquet for the contestants next Saturday at 2 p.m. at St. Helen's Island.
