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Dec-18-15
 | | GrahamClayton: At the age of just 19, Evans in 1951 won the "trifecta" - US Closed Champion, US Open Champion and US Lightning Champion. Is the the only person to have won all three titles in the same year? |
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| Jan-27-16 | | Hawkman: He's a 5 time US Champ, won the US Open 4 times, and he doesn't even have his name in the index. That's pretty insulting. |
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| Jan-28-16 | | Caissanist: I assume by the index you mean the pulldown menu. There seems to be a bug or something there, so I asked about that on the admin page. It's not just that someone like Evans is missing, but many of the players who <are> on there seem to be extremely marginal selections, e.g. Arthur Feuerstein, Gyula Kluger. |
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| Feb-08-16 | | Hawkman: < Caissanist: I assume by the index you mean the pulldown menu. There seems to be a bug or something there, so I asked about that on the admin page. It's not just that someone like Evans is missing, but many of the players who <are> on there seem to be extremely marginal selections, e.g. Arthur Feuerstein, Gyula Kluger. > Agreed. Meier is on the pull down menu. |
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| Mar-22-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Melvyn. |
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| Mar-22-17 | | gars: Happy Birthday Larry Evans! And Happy Birthday Jan Smejkal too! |
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Mar-22-17
 | | chessgames.com: I always enjoyed his Chess Life columns, especially after he began occasionally mentioning Chessgames. I don't believe he ever registered an account here but it's clear he frequented us regularly. We'll always miss you, Larry. |
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| Mar-22-17 | | erasmusdurer: Happy Birthday, Larry. I enjoyed your chess columns very much. They were the first thing I always read in Chess Life. You are missed. |
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| May-30-17 | | ColeTrane: Smoking some Larry OG right now son.... |
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| May-30-17 | | Howard: Evans technically won the U.S. championship four times, rather than five--contrary to a January, 2016 posting. The discrepancy stems from a match he played against Steiner for the title back in the 1950's. Andy Soltis' book on the history of the U.S. championship gives the details. In other words, a match for the title doesn't really count as far as "winning" the title. Or, at least, that's how I would see it. |
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| May-30-17 | | Nosnibor: In reporting this match in the " British Chess Magazine " it was stated incorrectly that Evans won by 8.5-2.5.thus not taking into account the last three games that were played. This was a challenge match by Steiner and there appears to be no formal tournament for 1952. |
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Jul-26-17
 | | mifralu: Photo: game against T.Yepez (Ecuador) - Havana Chess Olympiad 1966 http://c7.alamy.com/zooms/8989861e3... and the game
http://www.olimpbase.org/pgn4web/an... |
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| Sep-09-17 | | wordfunph: from Chess Monthly 1952 June..
< I Remember that one competitor came up to ask me whether I was the great Evans who invented the Evans Gambit. I was guilty of replying, "No, but the two of us are always being mistaken. The truth of the matter is that he has been living off my reputation ever since he died!"- Larry Evans > |
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| Feb-22-18 | | Howard: Evans made that "living off my reputation" comment in Boys Life magazine back in the 70's if I remember correctly. |
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| Feb-22-18 | | Petrosianic: <Howard: Evans technically won the U.S. championship four times, rather than five--contrary to a January, 2016 posting.> He won the US Championship Tournament four times and a US Championship match once, for a total of 5 US Championship victories, as claimed. That's the way they count championships that are primarily tournament based. Although if you really wanted to split hairs, you could say that he only won a third of a title in 1980. |
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| Feb-22-18 | | Howard: This just in...last night I was looking at Mueller's book on Fischer's games, and it mentioned how Fischer declined to play in the 1968 US championship. It added that Evans ended up winning it that year, for his "third US championship title". Right on !! It was his third title--not his "fourth". |
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| Feb-22-18 | | Petrosianic: <Right on !! It was his third title--not his "fourth".> The book was wrong. You can see years and years of Larry's columns in Chess Life, calling him a 5 time US Champion, which the Editor never changed. USCF's own magazine is more official than Mueller's book. |
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| Oct-29-20 | | neveramaster: Strange how Reshevsky really had Larry's number, winning 12 games to 2. |
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Oct-29-20
 | | perfidious: Maybe not so odd as all that: very often such instances of domination by one player are explained away by the principals involved having similar playing styles, with one being stronger than the other. In my opinion, these opponents tended towards solid, yet active methods of play, with Reshevsky being indisputably the stronger player. |
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| Mar-28-21 | | Z4all: 1961 photo of Larry taking on 50 boards in Van Nuys: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/coll... . |
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| May-23-21 | | Gottschalk: Pretty and surprisingly tactical win
Larry Evans vs Hartvig Nielsen, 1950 |
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| Jun-21-23 | | Caissanist: In 1977 Evans, in the wake of ongoing fights with the USCF and Chess Life and Review editor Burt Hochberg, attempted to start a new organization called the "Professional Chess Association" (yes, the same name and acronym as the organization that Kasparov later founded). His first (and, so far as I know, last) PCA newsletter is an interesting bit of chess history regarding the struggles of American chess masters to make a living in the wake of the Fischer bust: http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/... . |
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| Nov-25-23 | | Caissanist: Resehvsky was just better, Other than Fischer, he had the number of basically every post-WW2 American master. This included many who, like Evans, were much younger than he was. |
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Nov-25-23
| | perfidious: On reviewing Andersson vs Seirawan, 1982 today, verifying their lifetime heads-up score came to mind; the tale of dominance was broadly similar, with Andersson coming out on top in classical play by +8-1=15 in this matchup of two strong GMs, with Andersson enjoying the greater overall career. Seirawan peaked at tenth in the FIDE rankings, but Andersson briefly made it as high as fourth. |
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| Nov-26-23 | | Caissanist: I've been reading the tournament book of the 1972 US Championship (<Title Chess>), and comparing Evans' games to others reminded me of Donner's aphorism that accuracy is more important than profundity. Evans's games aren't nearly as creative or interesting as, say, those of Lombardy or DeFotis (both of whom finished a point behind him), or even Benko (half a point behind) but his performance was no fluke. Compared to them, he seems to have been much more pragmatic, objective, and psychologically tough. He never gets into time trouble, plays quite consistently (no blunders), never lets himself get bothered by noise or other problems with the conditions, doesn't get discouraged or emotional in a lost position, and always evaluates positions objectively. Compared to someone else of equal "chess ability" that seems to be worth at least 100 rating points, probably closer to 200. |
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