Bruce Amos

Bruce Murray Amos (born December 30, 1946) is a Canadian chess master.^[1]

Bruce Amos
Country	Canada
Born	December 30, 1946 (1946-12-30) (age 78) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Title	International Master (1969)
Peak rating	2460 (July 1971)

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.^[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.

• 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.^[5]

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]