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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. xi+41+[1 ad] typescript pages with table. Quarto (11" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's ring-stitched wrappers. American Tournament Series", Vol. XXXV. "Spence Limited Editions." No. 54 of 150 copies. (Betts 25-307) First edition. The U.S. Open Championship is an open national chess championship that has been held in the United States annually since 1900. The open was held at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in San Francisco during August 1961. The top American player usually qualifies for the U.S. Chess Championship. San Francisco 1961 set another attendance record with 198 players. Pal Benko claimed an astounding firs with only two draws and no losses. His score was 11/12 followed by Zoltan Kovács a full point behind. Arthur Bernard Bisguier and Robert Byrne tied for third and fourth with scores of 9.5 points. Condition: Some sunning to edges, light edge wear with bumped corners else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. 35 typescript leaves with tables. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher' stapled wrappers. . From the library of Lothar Schimd. (Linde 5698. Betts 25-176) "American Tournament Series" Volume 2. Limited Edition. Number 54 of 100 copies. The tournament was held in Yanton South Dakota September 15 through the 22nd. The 20 games of the main tournament are annotated by some of the players, and 2 games from the Major Open event. (First place. Francisco Planas Garcia with a score of 5 points of 8 followed by Miguel Colon Romero and Albert Margolis each a half point behind. Sole fourth place at 4 points was Hans Berliner. Condition: Lothar Schmid's book plate to front wrapper verso. Edge wear with bumped corners, toning to wrappers and interior else very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. vii+35+[2 ad] type script pages printed on recto with tables. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers with spiral spine. American Tournament Series Volume XVII. (Betts: 25-278) Limited to 140 copies of which this is number 15. First edition. The 10th United States Chess Championship tournament was held in New York City at the end of the year 1957. Fourteen of the US' strongest masters and grandmasters were invited to compete. Among the participants was a veritable who's who of former American champions, including Samuel Reshevsky, Arthur Bisguier, and Arnold Denker. Filling out the rest of the field was a number of players from the prestigious Third Rosenwald Trophy (1956), including a fourteen year old prodigy named Bobby Fischer. Fischer was already gaining recognition from several brilliant wins as the next generation of American chess grandmastery. However, the next generation had already arrived as Fischer dominated this, his inaugural championship, scoring wins against over half the field and finishing with 10½/13, a full point over seven-time former American champion Reshevsky. He became the youngest person ever to win the US crown, and the following year would become the youngest person to become a grandmaster. It was the beginning of a career that would culminate in Fischer becoming world champion and earning a place as one of the greatest players in history. Condition: Corners bumped, edge wear, toning to edges else very good.