Max Pavey

Career

Pavey would leave Scotland soon after this tournament, in June 1939, just before World World War World War II In 1948, he placed tied 5-8th place in the United States. Open Chess Championship at Baltimore with 8.5/12. In 1953, he finished second behind Donald Byrne at the Milwaukee United States. Open Chess Championship. In 1954, he represented United States of America on third board in a match against the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 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 Number.

88 in the world. In 1955, he played on sixth board and lost to Tigran Petrosian (+0 –2 =0) in another United States of America vs Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics match in Moscow. Pavey died in the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, after a long battle with leukemia in 1957.

Anthony Santasiere vs Max Pavey, New York, United States-ch 1951, English, A16, 0-1

Max Pavey vs Paul Keres, New York 1954, match United States vs SU, King"s Indian Defense, E60, 1-0

Robert James Fischer vs Max Pavey, New York Manhattan 1956, King"s Indian Attack, Symmetrical Defense, A05, 0-1

A chess club in Westchester County, New York is named after him.

Achievements

• He was studying medicine in Glasgow, and while a student in Scotland he won the Scottish Championship at Aberdeen 1939, with 7.5/9. He was United States. Lightning Champion in 1947. He was New York State Champion in 1949. In 1951, he took 3rd in New York (United States Chess Championship with 7/11. Larry Evans won). 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. In 1954, he took 3rd in the New York Manhattan Chess Club Championship (Arnold Denker won). In 1955/56, he won in New York (Manhattan Central Committee-ch), with 12/15. In 1956, he tied for 10-11th in New York (3rd Rosenwald Memorial. Samuel Reshevsky won). In 1956/57, he beat young Bobby Fischer in New York (Manhattan Central Committee-ch, semi-final), and won group 2 of that event with 4/5.