Historical Question

Like many people I became interested in Chess with the Fischer boom. I started playing in tournaments in the mid70s but an incident happened which I am now curious who was involved.

In 1975 (I believe) there was an international tournament held in Cleveland, Ohio. I am somewhat curious about that but also, the next weekend a GM from the tournament showed up and played at the Saturday 3 round Swiss at the Chess club in Rochester, New York. As I recall, someone drew him so he did not take 1st but I would like to know if anybody might know who the GM was?

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/rec.games.chess/9MElo1F7YrA

Says that the GM Ken Rogoff gave a simul in Rochester in 1975 and lost only one game.

Rogoff had finished 2nd in the 1975 US Championship and Zonal in Oberlin, Ohio. Oberlin is a suburb of Cleveland.

Thanks, notmtwain, Rogoff did show up that weekend but he didn't play. He lived in Rochester at that time going to school. I did see a blindfold simul he did at a local Shopping Mall but it was against media "personalities". The GM, again it's my memory were dealing with here, seemed Eastern European but I don't think he was Russian.

That was a nice little article. I recall the author (Phil Dorsey) and a couple of others mentioned in the article (Robert Joynt and Jon Tisdal) from that time.