Max Pavey

Max Pavey (March 5, 1918 – September 4, 1957) was an American chess master.

Biography

After graduating from

New York State Champion in 1949. During this time he also earned a master's degree in chemistry at Brooklyn College

In 1951, he took third in New York (

Larry Evans won).^[3] Also in that year, Pavey gave a simultaneous exhibition in Brooklyn, and faced a seven-year-old Bobby Fischer in the future World Chess Champion's first attempt at serious chess; Pavey won in about a quarter of an hour.^[4]

In 1954, he took third in the New York Manhattan Chess Club Championship (Arnold Denker won). In 1953, he finished second behind Donald Byrne at the Milwaukee U.S. Open Chess Championship. In 1954, he represented USA on third board in a match against the USSR in New York, and lost to Paul Keres (+1–2=0). Following this event, Chessmetrics estimates a peak rating of 2549 for Pavey in July 1954, ranking him No. 88 in the world.^[3] In 1955, he played on sixth board and lost to Tigran Petrosian (+0 –2 =0) in another USA vs USSR match in Moscow.^[3]

In 1955/56, he won in New York (Manhattan CC-ch), with 12/15. In 1956, he tied for 10-11th in New York (3rd Rosenwald Memorial; Samuel Reshevsky won).^[3] In 1956/57, he beat young Bobby Fischer in New York (Manhattan CC-ch, semi-final), and won group 2 of that event with 4/5.^[5]

Pavey died in the

Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC, after a long battle with leukemia in 1957. The radium processing plant in Mt. Kisco where he worked as a plant supervisor immediately announced that it was shutting down, but the plant's owners, the Canadian Radium and Uranium Corp., initially denied there was a connection between Pavey's death and the plant's closure. A month after Pavey's death, the company pleaded guilty to "injuring" three workers, including Pavey.^[6]

Notable chess games

References

^ http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables19.htm^{[permanent dead link]}
^ 1948 Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d http://www.chessmetrics.com Archived 2006-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, the Max Pavey player file
^ The Games of Robert J. Fischer, edited by Robert Wade and Kevin O'Connell, Batsford 1972, p.43
^ Wade & O'Connell, pp. 116–117
^ "Pavey".

External links

Max Pavey player profile and games at Chessgames.com

[1] ttp://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables19.htm^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] 1948 Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine

[autogenerated1-3] ttp://www.chessmetrics.com Archived 2006-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, the Max Pavey player file

[4] The Games of Robert J. Fischer, edited by Robert Wade and Kevin O'Connell, Batsford 1972, p.43

[5] Wade & O'Connell, pp. 116–117

[6] "Pavey".

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