AVidette-Messenger of Porter County, Valparaiso, Indiana, Tuesday, December 30, 1958
VU Professor In U.S. Chess Championships
Donald Byrne, 158 Franklin, member of the Valparaiso university department of English faculty, is in New York competing in the United States Chess championships.
As of last weekend, he was seventh in the standings after agreeing to a draw after 48 moves with Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, 15-year-old US champion. Byrne's brother, Robert of Indianapolis, was eighth.
The tournament, being played at the Manhattan and Marshall Chess clubs, will end Sunday by which time all players will have competed against each other. Byrne has made arrangements to play his final match Saturday so he may return here for the start of classes at VU Monday.
Byrne has been invited to compete in previous US championships but this was the first year his schedule permitted him to enter.
Top-ranking players are invited to compete. The current tourney has all but one of the country's leading players.
