AThe Daily Oklahoman Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Saturday, July 21, 1956
Dark Horse Threatens Top Players in Chess Competition
Two top-seeded players and a dark horse from Toronto, Canada, held the lead going into the fifth round of the $3,000 U.S. Open chess tournament in Oklahoma City Friday night.
All three of the leaders have won four straight matches without a draw or a loss. They are Jimmy Sherwin of New York, seeded second; Robert Steinmeyer of St. Louis; seeded fourth, and Geza Fuster of Toronto, who has not made much of a name in chess although he holds the rating of “expert.”
The third seeded player, Anthony Saidy of Douglaston, N.Y. was tied with three other players at 3½ points— three wins and a draw — while the U.S. champion) Arthur Bisguier of New York, seeded first in the tournament, was tied with several other players for eighth place with 3 points.
Also in the eighth place tie is Bobby Fischer, 13-year-old high school student from Brooklyn, who beat Dr. Peter Lapiken of Los Angeles, in an hour-and-a-half match Thursday night. The clocks showed Fischer used only 10 of the 90 minutes for his moves. Lapiken holds the rating of master and was seeded 14th.
Fischer, national junior champion, was seeded 44th.
