Tuesday, December 28, 2021

 


 

Herb Healy

Saturday, January 1, 2022
 
Event Format
4SS
 
Time Control
G/40 d5
 
Sections
Rated and Unrated
 
Registration
11:00am - 11:40am
 
Round Times
11:45am, 1:40pm, 3:30pm, 5:10pm
 
Description
 
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 VACCINATION REQUIRED.
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All visitors and players at the BCC must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask. 
Please bring your vaccine card or a photo of the card as proof of status.

Food and drinks will be provided.

Unrated section is open to all players and will not be rated by the USCF, so USCF membership is not required for this section.

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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 new chess year.

 Registration isn't until 11:00 am,

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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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 the 
 
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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Charles Slade, a master barbecue chef, will cater the open house.
 

 

Mike Griffin catered the affair in the past
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 Irv, Mike, and Charles for your contributions!

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