| Bruce Amos | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Canada |
| Born | December 30, 1946 (age 76) Toronto, Ontario |
| Title | International Master (1969) |
| Peak rating | 2460 (July 1971) |
Bruce Murray Amos (born December 30, 1946, in Toronto) is a Canadian chess master. [1]
| Bruce Amos | |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Born | December 30, 1946 (age 76) Toronto, Ontario |
| Title | International Master (1969) |
| Peak rating | 2460 (July 1971) |
Bruce Murray Amos (born December 30, 1946, in Toronto) is a Canadian chess master. [1]
Amos was awarded the International Master title in 1969 for his tied 4th-5th place finish at the Canadian Chess Championship Zonal at Pointe Claire; Duncan Suttles and Zvonko Vranesic shared the top spots. [2] Amos played twice more in Canadian Zonals. At Toronto 1972, he scored 9/17, for a shared 9-11th place, and at Calgary 1975, he scored 9/15 for a shared 5-7th place; Peter Biyiasas won both events. [3]
Amos represented Canada three times at Chess Olympiads. He won the silver medal on board two at the 1971 Student Olympiad at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; the team won the bronze medal. [4] In 49 international team games in the four events, he scored (+23 =20 –6), for 67.3 percent.
Amos narrowly missed a grandmaster result when he placed 3rd with 11/15, ahead of several grandmasters, at Reykjavík 1970; Guðmundur Sigurjónsson won. [6] He played in the 1973 Canadian Open and U.S. Open. After 1976, Amos largely withdrew from competitive chess in favour of Go, the Oriental board game, and became a top-ranking amateur player. An alumnus of the University of Toronto, he completed graduate studies in mathematics at Yale University [ when? ].
Amos's game against future world champion Anatoly Karpov at Mayagüez 1971 was annotated by Karpov in a published game collection. [7]
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