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Archive Home > 2010 > November > 20 > Chess champion Larry Evans dies

Chess champion Larry Evans dies

By Dylan Loeb McClain / The Bulletin
November 20, 2010

Larry Evans, a five-time U.S. chess champion and prolific writer who helped Bobby Fischer win the world championship in 1972, died Monday in Reno, Nev. He was 78.

Evans, who lived in Reno, died of complications of gall bladder surgery, according to the website of the U.S. Chess Federation, the....

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