Chess Competition
Hyman Bergman's avocation was chess. In the 1960s, he became an avid player and was a 30 year member of the Miami Beach Chess Club (2000 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida).
In 1967, Bergman defeated the club's top players Maurice Donath, Norman Mendelson, and Samuel Sinclair to earn a match with Anthony Santasiere.
On Saturday, May 11, 1968, at the Miami Beach Chess Club in Miami Beach, Florida, Bergman defeated Anthony Santasiere (Billed as "The American Chess Champion") in a simultaneous exhibition, with Santasiere playing against 21 opponents. Santasiere, had defeated future world chess champion Bobby Fischer in 1957. Santasiere scored 12 victories, three draws, four defaults, and lost to Hank Bergman and Irving Lynch.
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Famous quotes containing the words chess and/or competition:
“It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn’t mind being a Pawn, if only I might join—though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job than they have done with their child.... But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much similar to those of the teacher. In fact they feel they know their child better than anyone else and that the teacher doesn’t possess any special field of authority or expertise.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)