Monday, December 24, 2018

Boylston Chess: Herb Healy

banner:  Tony Cortizas, Jr.

Herb Healy 
Open House 
DateTuesday, January 1, 2019
Event Format4SS
Time ControlG/40 d5
SectionsRated and Non-USCF
Entry Fee$35, $20 for BCF members; $5 more if not registering online in advance.
PrizesBased on entries
Registration11:00am - 11:40am
Round Times11:45am, 1:40pm, 3:30pm, 5:10pm
DescriptionFree food and drinks all day for tournament players, registration limited to the first 56 players, no refund of advanced entries.
The Non-USCF section is open to all players (both rated and unrated players), and will not be rated by the USCF; thus, USCF membership is not required for the Non-USCF section
Entry ListCurrent Pre-Registration List








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Herb Healy Open House 

  • Our annual kickoff tournament
  • Free food served to all players all day
  • Two sections: rated and non-rated
photo:  Tony Cortizas, Jr.
Please come to the annual BCC open house, 

see some old friends, 

make some new ones, 

play some chess (rated or unrated), 

and enjoy a free lunch. 

It's a great way to start the 2018 chess year.


 Registration isn't until 10:45,


so you can sleep in from your celebrating the night before.



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Since 1974 Boston area chess players have started the new year with a tournament and open house at the Boylston Chess Club. 
In 1980 the open house was dedicated to Herb Healy, described below by Bernardo Iglesias.


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Mike Griffin caters the affair as Irving Yaffee did before him.

Irving Yaffe, in Memoriam.
Irv catered the Herb Healy for years!
photo:  Steve Stepak
Passing the baton to

BCC Veteran chess player and member, Board of Directors,
photo:  Steve Stepak
Mike Griffin high-lights one of his prime dogs at the deli table which he volunteered to organize and operate. Thank you Mike for your contribution!


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Start 2019 out right.  


Come play chess with friends.


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Bernardo did a sketch of the origination of the Herb Healy Open House:


Herbert E. Healy was born on July 13, 1885 and died on Wednesday, January 9, 1974 in Boston.  [Thanks to George Mirijanian for providing July 13 as his exact day of birth.]

He was 88 years old and one of the original Charter members of the Boylston Chess Club at its official organization in 1919.    He was Secretary Emeritus at his death.

“The Club was saddened by the death of Herbert Healy, Charter Member and Secretary Emeritus, on Wednesday night, January 9, 1974. This occurred only days after the Herbert Healy Appreciation Tournament (the 30-30 New Year’s Event) and Testimony was held in his honor. Wednesday had a 10”-12” snowfall, but Mr. Healy showed up at the Union and peeked into the Chess Quarters. [ He went to his home in the South End on Brookline Ave.] He died in his sleep. (Only Dave Hudnut, in the Providence Rhode Island area, remains as a Charter Club Member.)”

In 1980 the New Year's 30/30 was permanently dedicated to him as Herbert E. Healy Open House.  Herbert E. Healy along with Harry Lyman, Irvin Yaffee, Myer Edelstein and others customarily provided food to the participants of this event.


This information was taken from minutes of the club from January 27, 1974 and talking with Mr.Harry Lyman and William Lukowiak in past years. There are more testimonies about Mr. Healy that I am omitting.


Bemardo Iglesias
 December 2007








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