ANew York Times, New York, New York, Sunday, August 11, 1957
Two Players Pace Cleveland Chess
Donald Byrne, Berliner Win Twice Each for 5-0 Scores—Lombardy Adjourns
Special to The New York Times.
Cleveland, Aug. 10—The Western chess champion, Donald Byrne of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Hans Berliner of Washington remained tied for first place in the United States Chess Federation open tournament today.
Each picked up 2 points in the fourth and fifth rounds for 5-0 scores. They will meet in tomorrow's sixth round.
Byrne won his fourth-round game from Saul Wanetick of Philadelphia with the black pieces and defeated Geza Fuster of Toronto in the fifth. Berliner, playing black, defeated Lawrence Lipking of Cleveland in the fourth round and then upset Allen Kaufman of New York, who dropped to a sixth-place tie at 4-1 with five others.
In a tie for third place with 4½-½ were Robert Byrne of Indianapolis, older brother of Donald, Edmar Mednis of New York and J. Theodorovitch of Toronto. Robert Byrne downed Paul Brandts of New York, Mednis won from Victor Guala of New York and Theodorovitch outplayed Gilbert Ramirez of San Francisco.
The United States champion, Arthur B. Bisguier of New York, was held to a draw by Bobby Fischer, 14-year-old player from Brooklyn. Both are at 4-1, with Karl Burger of New York, Atillio Di Camillo of Philadelphia and Fuster.
Anthony E. Santasiere, New York State champion, wrested a point from Harry Fajans, fellow member of the Marshall Chess Club, to tie Brandts, Lipking and Ramirez at 3½-1½.
Walter J. Shipman of New York, who has had one adjournment, is in a tie at 3-1 with Wanetick, Leslie H. Ault of Cranford, N. J., and Richard Krause of Cleveland.
