I have written and display pictures of Larry Tamarkin on Facebook, but here I would like to list all of the NYC Chess Players who met an untimely death. Say their names. May their memories be a blessing. I suggest that we are a community, with a past and a future. Anyone who suggests otherwise is beneath contempt.
I may be criticized for adding someone you don't like or someone you consider too peripheral. They are all part of our common history.
Bill Adam
Bruce Albertson
Bob Ali
Alan Benjamin
Bruce Bowyer
Steve Brandwein
Leslie Braun
GM Walter Browne
Scott Chiaet
Billy Colias
Nick Conticello
Robert Feldstein
IM Ilya Figler
WC GM Robert Fischer
Will Fisher
Victor Frias
Nagib Gebran
Curtis Gibson
Robert Gruchacz
Wesley Hellner
Peter Henner
Martin Jacowitz
IA Carol Jareki
Susan Kantor
Erez Klein
Danny Kopek
Ed Kopieki
Edward LaMarca
Mikhail Layevsky
Vincent Livermore
GM William Lombardy
Brian McCarthy
GM.Edmar Mednis
Kalev Pehme
Robert Peretz
Paul Pressman
Boris Privman
Peter Roberts
Charu Robinson
Ronald Salzer
Eric Schiller
Jerry Simon
Ronald Simpson
Larry Tamarkin
Peter Winston
Jerry Yellen
Israel Zilber
Very nice of you Jerry. You're right that we are a community and should remember them all.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mike!
ReplyDeleteBrings back good memories. Were their deaths all untimely? Some lived a full life and then marched quietly off to Glory.
ReplyDeleteIA Horowitz, Edward Lasker, and my good friend Robert "Bob" Gruchacz "Gruch" could be added, and of course, Frank Marshall.
Definitely Gruchacz. As far as I know all of the deaths were untimely and recent enough so some people remember them.
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