Subject: 1956 Photo from "Shady Side: The Life and Crimes of Norman T.
Whitaker"

On 13 June 2004 (Sam Sloan) wrote in
Message-id:

In the book "Shady Side: The Life and Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker"
by John S. Hilbert on page 246 there is a group photo from the 1956
Eastern States Open in Washington DC. The author incorrectly
identifies it as being from the 1957 Western Open but I am sure it is
from the 1956 Eastern States Open.

Sam Sloan


At 11:48 AM 6/13/2004 -0400, william adams wrote:

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i did meet bobby in philadelphia
at the us junior (he watched did not play - age 11?) c. 1953??
i met him again at the eastern open in dc
bobby was 13 as i recall
i played lombardy and lost
he went to the mens room a lot
was he using a book as later accused of elsewhere?
rossolimo was there too

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Fischer played in the 1956 Eastern States Open on Thanksgiving weekend in
Washington, DC. There were 56 participants. Hans Berliner came in first with a
6-1 score. Fischer, Lombardy, Rossolimo and Feuerstein were runners-up with
5.5-1.5. E. Forry Laucks contributed more than $500 to the prize fund.
Here are the results of six of Fischer's games from that tournament:
Fischer 1-0 Attilio di Camillio
Ed Nash 0-1 Fischer
Erich Marchand 0-1 Fischer
Goldhamer 0-1 Fischer
Fischer 1/2-1/2 N. Hurttlen
Arthur Feuerstein 1/2-1/2 Fischer

I don't know the name of the other player who drew Fischer.

George Mirijanian