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International Master, Bruce Amos, born 1946-12-30 is alive and well and living in Toronto. [...] He has not been active in chess for years. He is an excellent GO player. He lives in North Toronto area not far from DCC on Bayview. His stats from the CFC webpage are as follows:
Bruce Amos
Rating 2395 Highest Rating 2400
Active Rating 2310 Active Highest 15
FIDE Rating 2355 CFC# 101257
Expiry LIFE Member City/Prov Toronto, ON
From the FIDE website:
IDcode Name T Fed Rtg Exp B-Day S F
2600161 Amos, Bruce M. m CAN 2355 0 1946-12-30 M i
From the American "GO" Association:
http://www.usgo.org/cgi-bin/ratings.pl
Ratings were updated on 08/22/2002
AGAID NAME RATING STATE AGAEXP
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1) Bent Larsen thought he was Canada's best hope for the future when playing in Canada around 1971.
2) When asked how one could improve from a 'B' class player to an 'A' class player, Bruce said 'I don't know, my first rating was as an expert'
3) In his comeback at the Toronto International 1985, he had a winning position against Korchnoi (Korchnoi overlooked Bxf5, when he had to recapture with his g pawn and have doubled f pawns). The game ended in a draw. [...]
4) Bruce does have many interests. He was an avid squash player, hockey, jogger. Today he has two children and plays some Go and some duplicate Bridge and bicycles 8 miles to work everyday.
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[...] there are approximately 11-13 names of apparently non-asian nature that are higher ranked than Bruce--though I don't know what the range is of the given rating list earlier.
He's a hero of mine, his balanced life makes it seem so easy. That Korchnoi game really impressed me, given that Bruce didn't play for years...
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Bruce Amos was a great rival for me in the late 60's and early 70's. We were matched a couple of dozen times in tournaments. He got the IM title in 1969 at Point Claire Can Closed, an IM norm later at the Siegan Olympiad 1970 and just missed a GM norm at Reykjavik that year.
He played well on the bronze-medal Canadian team at the 1971 World Student Olympiad including a key win against Bill Martz in the critical last round Canada-US match (which we won 2.5-1.5, but needed 3-1 for the Silver medal). His loss to young A. Karpov (on board 3) is in Karpov's first game collection.
Later he moved to Yale for Math, like Paul Selick. They both essentially gave up chess for go. In chess he played in the 1975 Can Closed in Calgary. He tried a 'comeback' in the mid-eighties but his openings, which had been his great strength, were rusty. In Go he became perhaps the best non-Japanese player in the world. As I recall he even won a tournament in Japan. He was also very good at ping pong and other athletic activities.
He, Duncan and Dobrila Suttles and I travelled togethor to a lot of events in 1972-74: Montreal, Ottawa, Chicago. After the 1972 Skopje Olympiad we meandered around Yugoslavia and Germany for a couple of weeks.
Nowadays all ratings are much higher, and the 2395 includes his unsuccessful comeback attempt in the mid-80's.
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TEXTE DE BRUCE AMOS :
I am not an active tournament player. Since 1976, I have played in only two tournaments, both in the summer of 1986.
I am an international master, earned in the 1969 Canadian closed where I scored 11/15.
The highest rating depends on whether you use US, Canadian, International. The highest was the international which was in the mid 2400 range.
Currently, I follow the chess news, and read some magazines and books for entertainment purposes, but I have no immediate plans to play in tournaments.
I was very active in go up to about 1991 when my first daughter was born. Since then, I have played in a number of US and Canadian championships. I have represented Canada three times in the invitational ING cup, but have not played tournaments in the last three years.
I intend to play next summer though.
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Bon. Mes cadeaux des Fêtes sont fait pour toi, Denis. Pour être à l’heure, rien de tel que d’être en avance :-)
Évariste Galois-qui-joue-au-Père-Noël