On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 11:07:51 AM UTC-5, Ken Blake wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:20:26 -0500, cru...@example.org wrote:
Very sad. I knew him.
Arthur Feuerstein, Chess Player With a Comeback Gambit, Dies at 86
Once one of the country's best young players, he became a top player
again after a car crash left him slipping in and out of consciousness.
By Dylan Loeb McClain
Feb. 22, 2022
Arthur Feuerstein, who was once one of the best young chess players in
the United States, even managing to hold his own against Bobby
Fischer, and who survived a horrific head injury to once again become
a top player, died on Feb. 2 in Mahwah, N.J. He was 86.
His wife, Alice Feuerstein, said the cause was pancreatic and liver
cancer.
Yes, very sad. I've known this for several days.
I also knew him, and played against him many times. But as far as I
know, after the car crash, although he still played, he was far from
being a top player. I never played against him again after the crash,
but another close friend of both of us did, and said he was much
weaker.
I didn't know him at all, but I was in one tournament with him, the 1971 CNE open in Toronto,
an event with six grandmasters (back when there were only 100 in the world).
I was weak, and playing even weaker than that, so there was no chance
we would be paired. I seem to recall watching his game against a
local IM, probably Larry Day.
Benko and R Byrne won with scores of 6-0, ahead of Spassky who could
only draw with Day. Feuerstein wrote it up with a very complimentary
article in CL&R in which among other things he complimented Toronto on
having classical music on AM radio (no more, though it lasted another
twelve years or so).
Great player and a gentleman.
William Hyde
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