THE BOY OF THE 42nd STREET
Haifa 1976: Chess Olympiads - Three members of the winning US Team:
Larry Evans, Lubomir Kavalek, and Robert Byrne. - Photo: Huffington Post
Today, we remember Grandmaster Larry Evans, born in New York, USA, on March 22, 1932.
Larry grew up playing with passersby on the 42nd and became the Marshall Chess Club champion at 15.
Evans won the US Championship five times between 1951 and 1980 and the US Open four times. He played in eight Olympiads between 1950 and 1976, winning a Team Gold medal and Gold, Silver, and Bronze Individual medals.
Evans defeated Euwe, Reshevsky, Portisch, Gligoric, Taimanov, Benko, Seirawan, and many other strong players in his career.
A Bobby Fischer friend, Evans was Fischer's second in all the matches that led Bobby to the World Championship Match in Reykjavik. Only for the final match against Spassky, Fischer chose a different second.
A chess journalist, Evans wrote many chess books.
Larry Evans-Israel Horowitz, New York (US Championship) 1951
White to move
41.c7! Rxf3 42.c8=Q+ Kg7 43.Qg4+ 1-0
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