Bruce Amos

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Bruce Murray Amos (born December 30, 1946, Toronto, Canada) is a Canadian International Master of chess, a high-calibre go player, and a mathematician.

[edit] Biography

Bruce Amos earned a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Queen's University in 1968, and represented Queen's in team chess events. Amos completed his doctoral studies in mathematics at Yale University.

He was awarded the International Master title in 1969 for his high finish at the Canadian Chess Championship Zonal at Pointe Claire; Duncan Suttles and Zvonko Vranesic tied for the top spots.[1] He played twice more in Canadian Zonals. At Toronto 1972, he scored 9/17, for a shared 9-11th place, and at Calgary 1975, he scored 9/15 for a shared 5-7th place. Peter Biyiasas won both the 1972 and 1975 Canadian titles.[2]

Amos represented Canada three times at chess Olympiads. Amos won the silver medal on board two at the 1971 Student Olympiad at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and Canada won the bronze team medals. In 49 international team games in those four events, he scored (+23 =20 –6), for 67.3 per cent.

  • Siegen 1970 Olympiad, 1st reserve, 9/13 (+7 =4 –2);
  • Mayaguez 1971 Student Olympiad, board 2, 8/11 (+6 =4 –1), team bronze, board silver;
  • Skopje 1972 Olympiad, 1st reserve, 10.5/15 (+6 =9 –0);
  • Haifa 1976 Olympiad, board 4, 5.5/10 (+4 =3 –3), Canada placed 8th, its highest-ever finish.[3]

At Reykjavik 1970, Amos narrowly missed a Grandmaster result when he placed 3rd with 11/15, ahead of several Grandmasters, with Gudmundur Sigurjonsson winning.[2] He played in the 1973 Canadian Open and U.S. Open. After the 1976 Olympiad, Amos largely gave up competitive chess in favour of go, the Oriental board game, and became a top-ranking world player. The site chessgames.com has 10 of his games, while the site mychess.com has 120 of his games. His peak chessmetrics.com rating was 2594 in February 1971, good for #72 in the world.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.chessgames.com, the Bruce Amos player profile
  2. ^ a b http://www.chessmetrics.com, the Bruce Amos player file
  3. ^ Amos, Bruce team chess record at olimpbase.org

I question whether this Bruce Amos attended Queen's University - I think he went to University of Toronto.

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