New York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, July 07, 1957
Evans Captures 2 Chess Matches - New Yorker Shares Lead at Milwaukee With Whitaker, Byrne and Szedlacsek
Milwaukee, July 6. — Larry Evans of New York and three other players, undefeated after four rounds of the Western chess tournament, were tied for the lead today. The others were Donald Byrne of Ann Arbor, Mich., Lajos Szedlacsek of Cleveland and Norman T. Whitaker of Shadyside, Md.,
After sustaining his first reverse in the third round, Bobby Fischer, 14-year-old star from Brooklyn, won in the fourth round for a tally of 3—1.
Evans triumphed in the third round over Jerry Kraszewski of St. Francis, Wis., in a Sicilian defense lasting thirty-eight moves, after establishing a positional advantage in the middle game.
In the following round, the New Yorker scored against William Addison of San Francisco, who had upset Fischer in the third. The opening was the exchange variation of the Ruy Lopez. Evans won in fifty-seven moves.
After winning from Ronald Rosen of Madison, Wis., in the third round, Byrne played the best game of the tournament so far against Povilas Tautvaisas of Chicago, winning in a Sicilian defense in forty-eight moves. The dragon variation in the Sicilian defense was discussed.
A well-played game in the fourth round with I. Theodorovitch of Toronto, enabled Szedlacsek to keep up with the procession. The game lasted thirty-four moves.
Against Addison, Fischer was disturbed by the adoption of an irregular opening, rarely resorted to in serious tournament play. The Californian succeeded in winning the exchange on the sixteenth move, an advantage which he returned shortly. He established a telling king's side attack, mainly because of his opponent's weakness on black squares. Fischer won his fourth-round game, a Ruy Lopez, from W. H. Donnelly of Valparaiso, Ind., in thirty moves.
Those in a group with scores of 3½-½:
Atilio Di Camillo, Philadelphia; S. Popel, Detroit; Hans Berliner, Washington; Dr. Bruno W. Schmidt, Homer, N.Y.; John V. Ragan, St. Louis, Mo., and Herman Hesse, Bethlehem, Pa.
