An interesting side note is that Lisa Lane announced her plan to open a chess divan, The Queen's Pawn, in December just prior to the start of the 1962 US Championship:
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that's a handsome looking fellow
Nov 19, 2016
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For the record and clarity, let me quote from Lucy Neumark's article in Frank Brady's Chessworld magazine, March-April, 1964, called the "Greenwich Village Gambit." :
The Queen's Pawn, Lisa Lane's chess "emporium" in Sheridan Square resembles a Village coffeehouse, with wood-paneled and white-washed brick walls, hung with paintings by contemporary unknowns. Unlike the nearby cafes, the coffee is just fifteen cents and the paintings are good.
Lisa, an International Woman's Master, is almost always in attendance. She is 26, pretty, with square dark bangs and steady Slavic eyes.
She is also a very intense player.
Her patrons, too, are young, and the atmosphere is lighter than the more austere clubs where conversation is quickly shushed.
Lisa Lane in the Queen's Pawn
You can learn many things by analsying Bobby's and Alekhine's games , If analysed in depth and correct way . Very very productive .
I find this Mednis a bit dishonest.
Nov 20, 2016
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<Pulpofeira> Not that many people could beat Fischer. One may well be proud about it.
Znosko-Borovsky also made known his intention to publish a book of Capablanca's losses - it shows the greatness of these players that other professionals want to publish books of their losses. It shows how special and unusual it is when they lose.
Everybody loses games. I only would say "how to beat John Doe" after winning a match against him.
Nov 20, 2016
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Mednis was simply following Steinitz' principle of accumulated advantages as any good player might.
Dec 2, 2016
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#17
Bill Wall wrote:
He became a Grandmaster in 1980 at the age of 43. It was the Puerto Rico Chess Federation rather than the United States Chess Federation that formerly proposed him for the Grandmaster title. The USCF did not think Mednis was strong enough with a 2475 Elo rating and refused to sponsor him for the GM title because he had not made any norms. The standard Grandmaster rating is 2500. Puerto Rico nominated him after Mednis agreed to give chess lessons to the Puerto Rican chess team. Although Mednis did not make any GM norms, FIDE later changed its system for calculating norms (for the first time, FIDE used performance ratings instead of norm scores). Under this new system, Mednis was qualified for the GM title. He had qualified with two norms, but did not need a third norm because the previous two moves totaled 26 games. A player needed at least 25 games before a title was considered.
Mednis, like Fischer, died at age 64.
Dec 2, 2016
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But it was 14 years ago so he's been requiescating in pace for some time now.
On December 18, 1962 Bobby Fischer sealed his move against Edmar Mednis, a chemical engineer by trade and and a displaced Latvian who had moved to NYC from a post-war relocation camp in Germany in 1950. This was the U.S. Chess Championship played at the Henry Hudson Hotel in New York from Dec.16, 1962 until Jan 3, 1963. Mednis was, of course, a master player but a comparatively weak one and, theoretically at least, not a threat to Fischer who had never lost a single game in any of the US Championships in which he played.
The sealed move was never played. Fischer resigned. By the 49th move Fischer was down a pawn and saddled with double pawns while Mednis continued carefully without serious mistake.
Mednis' win was an anomaly. His lifetime score against Fischer was 5 losses, one draw and this win.
After Fischer won his World Champion title in 1972, Edmar Mednis used this solitary win to propel himself into a full-time chess career. He wrote his well known book, "How to Beat Bobby Fischer" capitalizing on that one win as well as Fischermania by creating a compendium of Fischer's losses. After the success of that book, he wrote 21 more.
Fischer went on to win the 1962-3 US championship by a full point despite that one upset.
Fischer, after winning