ANew York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, December 17, 1961
U.S. Title Chess Opens Here Today
12 to Seek Marshall Trophy at Prince George Hotel
A field of twelve top players will compete in the Lessing J. Rosenwald round-robin chess tournament which opens today at the Prince George Hotel, 14 East Twenty-eighth Street. The United States championship and the Frank J. Marshall Trophy will be at stake.
The first round will be played from 12:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. All the other rounds, with the exception of the fifth and ninth, will be played from 6 P.M. to 11 P.M.
Frank Brady of the United States Chess Federation and Hans Kmoch, an international judge and secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club, will be the directors of the tournament.
Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, the 18-year-old present champion, and Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, N.Y., a former champion, will not compete this year.
The entries will be:
Pal Benko, Sidney Bernstein, Larry Evans, George Kramer, Edmar Mednis, Herbert Seidman, James T. Sherwin, Abe Turner and Raymond Weinstein, all of New York; Donald Byrne of State College, Pa.; Robert Byrne of Indianapolis, and Eliot Hearst of Arlington, Va.
—
