Herbert Avram
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Herbert Avram (born 24 January 1913, New York – died 15 January 2006) was an American chess player, and Lieutenant Commander in US Navy.
During and after WW II, he worked at the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Avram won the Virginia State Championship three straight times from 1952 to 1954. He accomplished the neat trick of winning the Maryland Open – and thus becoming Maryland State Champion – twice, once in 1955 and again 24 years later (!) in 1979.
He was one of the very small fraternity of players to take a point from Fischer in a rated game, defeating the 14-year-old Brooklyn prodigy in a 1957 New Jersey tournament. Fischer was the reigning U.S. Junior champion and winner of "The Game of the Century" at the time the game was played.
Herbert Avram quietly passed away in January 2006 at age 92. His wife of 64 years, noted librarian Henriette D. Avram, succumbed to cancer three months later.
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