Asbury Park Press Asbury Park, New Jersey Thursday, July 09, 1981 - Page 32
Chess Grandmaster to Play 6 Boards At Once in Dover
Dover Township — Grandmaster Edmar Mednis of New York will challenge six opponents here tomorrow night in a simultaneous chess exhibition with clocks, sponsored by the Toms River Chess Club.
Mednis, the author of “How to Beat Bobby Fischer at Chess,” is a professional chess player and a columnist for Chess Life, official magazine of the United States Chess Federation. … Mednis was born in Riga, Latvia, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1950.
He showed early promise in chess at the 1955 World Junior Championship in which he placed second, behind Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.
In the same year, Mednis won the New York state championship, and the U.S. intercollegiate championship.
Mednis has played in five world student team championships, and was a member of the winning U.S. team in 1960. He has played in the U.S. championship tournament 10 times, tying for third place in 1978.
He gained the title of international master in 1974, and was granted international grandmaster status at the Chess Olympiad last year.