{{Short description|Canadian chess player (born 1946)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox chess player | name = Bruce Amos | image = | birthname = | caption = | country = {{flagu|Canada}} | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|December 30, 1946}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | title = International Master (1969) | peakrating =2460 (July 1971) | FideID = 2600161 }} '''Bruce Murray Amos''' (born December 30, 1946) is a Canadian chess master.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=David |date=December 25, 2018 |title=Bruce Amos |url=http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessBiographiesA.html#AMOS |access-date=May 15, 2023 |website=Canadian Chess Biographies}}</ref>
== Biography == 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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Horowitz |first=Al |date=1969-10-02 |title=Chess: 2 Brilliant Sacrifices Put A Master Against the Ropes |pages=44 |work=New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/10/02/81992986.html?pageNumber=44 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-05-15}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Canadian Closed Championships, 1945-2021 |url=https://www.bcchesshistory.com/canchslate.html |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=British Columbia Chess History}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=18th World Student Team Chess Championship: Mayagüez 1971: Canada |url=https://www.olimpbase.org/1971y/1971can.html |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=OlimpBase: The Encyclopedia of Team Chess}}</ref> In 49 international team games in the four events, he scored (+23 =20 –6), for 67.3 percent. * Siegen 1970 Olympiad, 1st reserve, 9/13 (+7 =4 –2) * Mayagüez 1971 Student Olympiad, board 2, 8/11 (+6 =4 –1) * Skopje 1972 Olympiad, 1st reserve, 10.5/15 (+6 =9 –0); * Haifa 1976 Olympiad, board 4, 5.5/10 (+4 =3 –3), Canada placed 8th, its best-ever finish.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amos, Bruce |url=https://www.olimpbase.org/players/1zlb39db.html |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=OlimpBase: The Encyclopedia of Team Chess}}</ref>
Amos narrowly missed a grandmaster result when he placed 3rd with 11/15, ahead of several grandmasters, at Reykjavík 1970; Guðmundur Sigurjónsson won.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reykjavik 1970 |url=https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Reykjavik_1970/22937 |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=365Chess}}</ref> 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|date=January 2022}}.
Amos's game against future world champion Anatoly Karpov at Mayagüez 1971 was annotated by Karpov in a published game collection.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Karpov |first1=Anatoly |url=https://archive.org/details/karpovscollected0000karp/page/134/mode/2up |title=Karpov's Collected Games: All 530 Encounters |last2=Levy |first2=David N. |publisher=RHM Press |year=1975 |pages=134–35 |isbn=978-0-89058-005-9 |access-date=2023-05-15 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
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== External links == *{{Fide}} *{{chessgames player|id=21467}} *[http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S003372000000111000000000001210100 Bruce Amos] Chessmetrics player profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amos, Bruce}} Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Canadian chess players Category:Chess International Masters Category:University of Toronto alumni Category:Chess players from Toronto Category:Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Category:Chess Olympiad competitors