Bruce Murray Amos (born December 30, 1946) is a Canadian

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Biography

Amos was awarded the

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title in 1969 for his tied 4th-5th place finish at the

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Zonal at Pointe Claire;

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and

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shared the top spots. Amos played twice more in Canadian Zonals. At

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1972, he scored 9/17, for a shared 9–11th place, and at

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1975, he scored 9/15 for a shared 5–7th place; Peter Biyiasas won both events. Amos represented Canada three times at

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s. He won the silver medal on board two at the 1971 Student Olympiad at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico; the team won the bronze medal. 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. Amos narrowly missed a grandmaster result when he placed 3rd with 11/15, ahead of several grandmasters, at Reykjavík 1970;

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won. He played in the 1973 Canadian Open and

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. 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

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. Amos's game against future world champion

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at Mayagüez 1971 was annotated by Karpov in a published game collection.

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