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| Apr-10-04 | | ruylopez900: I believe Biyiasas was a Canadian GM, can anyone confirm this for me? Thanks. |
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| Apr-10-04 | | BiLL RobeRTiE: Indeed thats what he was! |
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| Apr-11-04 | | WMD: Biyiasis is best known for the time he reportedly spent with Fischer in 1981. They apparently played over a hundred speed games of which one was drawn and Fischer won the rest. |
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| Apr-11-04 | | iron maiden: WMD, what sources attested to the time with Fischer? Were they reliable? |
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| Apr-11-04 | | WMD: I believe fom Biyiasas himself. |
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Apr-11-04
 | | Sneaky: Bill Wall has it like this: <In 1981 Fischer stayed with grandmaster Peter Biyiasis. They played at least 17 blitz games and Fischer won every game.> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVal... |
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Jul-11-04
 | | Joshka: <sneaky> <wmd> <iron maiden> Canadian GM yes, also I believe he was married to Ruth Harring IM, when Fischer spent time with them. Peter talked about and wrote, that he even played softball or baseball with Bobby, and that he would hit "fungos" to Bobby and Bobby would really be proud of the way he "whipped" the ball back in. I think even Ruth said that after a few weeks they tried in a nice way to say that Bobby had overstayed his welcome. Believe they also talked about taking in many movies with Bobby. Also losing all those blitz games is correct. I remember reading about all this in the 80's and I think these articles were in Chess Life. |
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Jul-11-04
 | | IMlday: Biyiasas was 'wall board guy' at Fischer-Taimanov Candidates Match, Vancouver, 71. Then he played 6th board on bronze-medal winning Canadian team at 1971 Student Olympiad in Puerto Rico; won Can closeds in 1972 as dark horse and 1975 as favorite. GM title, 1978, Silver medal at Buenos Aires Olympiad on board 2 1978, then married Ruth Haring and emigrated to US, San Francisco. Failing eyesight ended his chess career. The speed games with Fischer were 1-minute--not exactly scientific. |
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Jul-12-04
 | | Chessical: He also defeated Geller (Biyiasas vs Geller, 1973), Hug and Kagan, at the 1973 Petropolis Interzonal scoring a respectable 6.5 out of 17. |
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| Jul-15-04 | | ruylopez900: Isn't it also true that Biyasas was born in the States but moved to Canada later on? |
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Jul-15-04
| | IMlday: He was born in Greece but his family soon emigrated and he learned chess in Canada, Winnipeg initially, then Vancouver. |
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| Jul-15-04 | | ruylopez900: <IMlday> Ahh, guess I was wrong. Thanks for clearing it up. |
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Dec-22-04
 | | Benzol: Peter Biyiasas
Born 19th November 1950 in Athens
Awarded the IM title in 1972 and GM title in 1978.
He's been Canadian champion in 1972, 1975 and 1978. |
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Dec-22-04
| | IMlday: Nope for 1978. Little kid Jean Hebert was the dark horse winner at Toronto, 1978. That's why Biyiasas was board 2 at the 78 Olympiad; we put the champion automatically on first. |
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Dec-22-04
| | Benzol: <IMlday> Great mate. It's nice to get the facts straightened out. BTW He's not listed in this database but I have some info on a player named Charles W Blake. Born 12th June 1880 and died sometime after 1926 in Toronto. He finished 1st= in the 1913 Canadian championship but lost the playoff. Do you know anything more about him? |
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| Jun-30-05 | | lentil: i'm feeling amazed... i'm 2 degrees of separation from bobby fischer!! i drove with biyiasis (he's the one who appelled me 'lentil') to a tournament in oregon (got an an accident there, too -- hit a boat!!). he played fischer. 2 degrees. cool! (by the way, i'm also 3 degrees of separation from robert plant of led zeppelin). |
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| Jun-30-05 | | nikolaas: <lentil> What's even better, you're only 3 degrees from Tal, Spasski, Petrosian, Kortchnoi etc. |
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Jun-30-05
 | | perfidious: Guess I wasn't alone-in the fall of 1977, a friend gave Biyiasas, Ruth Orton and I a ride from Leominster,MA to Burlington VT after we'd played a tourney there. all these years on, I don't recall much about the trip other than it being fun! |
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Aug-25-05
 | | chancho: I remember reading that Fischer was staying at this guy's house around 1980 or 81,and Peter commented that Fischer could "pack it" when it came to food. He showed Fischer some of his games,and Fischer found flaws in Peter's openings and middlegame play.He then said to Fischer,"What about my endgame? I'm quite good at playing endgames."Fischer then looked at the endgames,shook his head, smiled,and said "Sorry but there are mistakes here also."I told this story from memory so some of the quotes mentioned may be somewhat inaccurate. |
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| Aug-25-05 | | RookFile: And Biyiasas said, they played some
5 minutes games. Biyiasas said that it seemed like Bobby's openings were out of date, but this didn't prevent Fischer from always winning. |
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| Nov-12-05 | | PhilFeeley: So what happened to him? Did he quite playing tournaments to spend time on a career? |
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| Nov-12-05 | | Pawsome: Biyiasas may regret relating telling the story of the lost blitz games. I just Googled him. Every third entry was concerned with those trivial games. Sadly, he may be remembered as the man who was out-blitzed by Fischer than for his fine chess and his Canadian Championships. |
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| Nov-19-05 | | lopium: I didn't know his birtday was the one of Capablanca! Nice. HBPB. |
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| Nov-19-06 | | BIDMONFA: Peter Biyiasas BIYIASAS, Peter
http://www.bidmonfa.com/biyiasas_pe...
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| Sep-29-07 | | AlexandraThess: Unfortunately he couldn't contribute for the development and popularity of chess in Hellas. One of the hundreds of thousands post-war born greeks who were doomed to wander about the world. However, I hope that he will soon come back to the land of Gods and pay his tribute to Hellas. |
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