AThe Gazette Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada Monday, August 27, 1956
Montreal Man In Chess Vanguard
Leaders narrowed to 10 here yesterday after the second round of the first Canadian open chess championships. One Montrealer, Lionel Joyner, was among them. Few major upsets marked the day's early round. Larry Evans of New York, a strong favorite to take the event's $500 first prize, defeated Maurice Fox, of Montreal for his second point, after beating B.P. Kozak, of Sudbury, Ont., in the opening round, Saturday.
Yesterday's matches were held in the Young Men's Hebrew Association building on Mount Royal Ave., after opening sessions Saturday in Redpath Hall, McGill University. Today the event moves back to Redpath Hall, where it will remain until Sept. 1. Final rounds are scheduled for the YMHA building.
Some 88 players, from Canada, the United States and Guatamala, are competing in the 10-round, $1,000 tournament, being conducted under the Swiss system.
Two other Canadian players, Frank Anderson, of Toronto, and Pavolis Vaitonis, of Hamilton, are undefeated after two rounds.
Anderson, a University of Toronto student and international chess master, beat L. A. Nadler, of Montreal, Saturday. He picked up his second point yesterday with a win over Dr. Joseph Rauch, also of Montreal.
Evans, a 24-year-old film producer, playing black, battled with Maurice Fox for three horus and 35 minutes before the former Canadian champion resigned on the 50th move.
Under the Swiss system, a win scores one point and a tie, one half point. Opponents in the opening round were determined by a draw. In succeeding rounds, players with highest point totals are matched Second place winner receives $300.
Experience told in the match between 13-year-old Bobby Fischer, U.S junior champion from Brooklyn, N.Y. and Robert Sobel, of Philadelphia.
Sobel took 27 moves to dispose of the U.S. prodigy. The boy beat Gerard Lepine, 17, of Montreal, in the opening round.
Other pre-tournament favorites with two-point scores are Hans Berliner, Washington; William Lombardy, New York; Attilio Di Camillo, Philadelphia; Edmar Mednis, New York, and James Sherwin, New York.
Siegfried Schmitt, Kitchener, Ont., and Guillermo Vasseaux, Guatamala City, both won their first matches yesterday. Vasseaux beat Antonio Gillot, a fellow-countryman, while Schmitt won over Kozak.
Abe Yanofsky, of Winnipeg, still a leading contender, finished the second round with one and one-half points.
J. G. Prentice, of Vancouver, Friday was re-elected president of the Chess Federation of Canada at the group's annual meeting.
Other officers re-elected were: vice-president, P.G. Heley, Sarnia, Ont.; secretary, J.B. Bergevin Ottawa; and treasurer, A.E. Russell, Vancouver.
Wilbur Jonssan, of Winnipeg, was named membership secretary, a new post.
(Caption — Chess Mates: Youth and experience tested their respective skills, as players waited for opening of the third round of the Canadian open chess championships here yesterday. G.R. Coyne, of 1935 St. Antoine St., 67 years old, matches wits with 13-year-old David Aboody, of 1803 North Ave. David this fall enters the eighth grade at Montreal High School. Mr. Coyne is a retired sign painter.)
