Bruce M Amos
Number of games in database: 17
Years covered: 1966 to 1976
Last FIDE rating: 2355
Overall record: +5 -10 =2 (35.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
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BRUCE M AMOS (born Dec-30-1946) Canada [what is this?] Bruce Murray Amos was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was awarded the IM title in 1969, has a Ph. D. in math from Yale and plays Go. He played as high as 4th board for Canada in 3 Olympiads (1970-2 and 1976) and earned 25 points in 38 team games. Sources: http://www.chess.ca/, http://www.olimpbase.org/ Wikipedia article: Bruce Amos

page 1 of 1; 17 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. L Day vs B M Amos   0-1 50 1966 Canadian Open C28 Vienna Game 2. B M Amos vs Larsen 0-1 31 1968 Canadian Open D92 Grunfeld, 5.Bf4 3. B M Amos vs L Day   ½-½ 32 1969 Canadian Closed B15 Caro-Kann 4. L Day vs B M Amos   1-0 29 1969 USA B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 5. G Forintos vs B M Amos   1-0 30 1970 Siegen ol (Men) E37 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 6. B M Amos vs Matulovic 1-0 68 1970 Reykjavik B08 Pirc, Classical 7. B M Amos vs Karpov   0-1 28 1971 04, Mayaguez tt-stud B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 8. B M Amos vs Z Vranesic   ½-½ 48 1972 CAN-ch B42 Sicilian, Kan 9. B M Amos vs L Day   0-1 42 1972 1, Toronto CAN ch B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long 10. C Coudari vs B M Amos   0-1 67 1972 CAN-ch C75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 11. K Spraggett vs B M Amos   1-0 34 1973 Can. Open, Ottawa C05 French, Tarrasch 12. Browne vs B M Amos   1-0 40 1973 Chicago USA op B32 Sicilian 13. L Day vs B M Amos   1-0 35 1973 Timmins op C94 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer Defense 14. B M Amos vs L Day   1-0 49 1975 15, Calgary CAN ch zt C66 Ruy Lopez 15. K Spraggett vs B M Amos   0-1 27 1975 Calgary CAN ch zt B33 Sicilian 16. B M Amos vs J Benjamin 0-1 40 1976 Manhattan International Tournament C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed 17. E Paoli vs B M Amos   1-0 32 1976 Haifa ol (Men) B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6  page 1 of 1; 17 games

Dec-09-06    Benzol: <IMlday> Can you tell us a little bit about Amos please. Is he still alive? Apr-01-07    gauer: http://web.ncf.ca/bw998/canchess.ht... gives a brief discussion of the aforementioned. Apr-01-07    IMlday: IM in 1969 in Canadian Zonal, Siegan Olympics, missed GM norm slightly at Reyjavik, circa '69. Played Olympics again '72 and '76. Gave up competitive chess for Go, became a top world player. Lives in Toronto. Jul-28-11    BIDMONFA: Bruce M Amos AMOS, Bruce M. http://www.bidmonfa.com/amos_bruce_... _

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