Larry Evans, American Chess Legend, Dies
Ted The Cat
Chess Champion Grandmaster Larry Evans died at Washoe Hospital in
Reno, Nevada, from complications following a gall bladder operation.
GM Evans is arguably the most versatile figure in American chess
history. If Siegbert Tarrasch enjoyed the title, Praeceptor
Germaniae, then Larry Evans was the Chess Teacher of America. He did
everything.
Five-time U.S. champion, distinguished author of MCO-10 - the famed
"Chessplayer's Bible" - as well as the path-breaking New Ideas in
Chess and some 25 other books; award-winning syndicated columnist;
investigative journalist; chess ambassador for the U.S. State
Department; magazine contributor to Time, Sports Illustrated and many
other publications; television commentator for ABC's "Wide World of
Sports"; founder and editor of the American Chess Quarterly; founder
and chairman of the Friends of the USCF; crusader for the Players'
Health and Benefit Fund; and self-described heck-raiser and muckraker
- GM Larry Evans was all of the above and much, much more.