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
: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------; VACCINATION REQUIRED.; -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------; 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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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.