Herbert Avram, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetHerbert Avram
American chess player
Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1913
Date of Death: 15-Jan-2006
Profession: chess player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Herbert Avram
- Herbert Avram (24 January 1913 – 15 January 2006) was an American chess player, and Lieutenant Commander in the U.S.
- Navy.
- He was born in New York City. During and after World War II, he worked at the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.
- The sensitive nature of his intelligence work meant that he could never be alone with Soviet chess players in chess tournaments or at chess clubs.
- However, this rarely, if ever, proved a problem. Avram won the Virginia State Championship three straight times from 1952 to 1954.
- He accomplished the neat trick of winning the Maryland Open – and thus becoming Maryland State Champion – twice, once in 1955 and 24 years later in 1979. He was one of the very small fraternity of players to take a point from Bobby Fischer in a rated game, defeating the 14-year-old Brooklyn prodigy in a 1957 New Jersey tournament.
- Fischer was the reigning U.S.
- Junior champion having won "The Game of the Century" shortly before this game was played. As a player, Avram was noted for his materialism and his dogged defense, although he was also quite capable of launching sparkling attacks on the king.
- His chess activity tended to be marked by intervals of great activity followed by periods away from the game.
- The demands of his intelligence work, family life or both may have played a role in this cycle. He also worked in the court reporting (stenography) market.
- He founded a company in this industry, and his efforts in this field led to the application of Closed Captioning on television.
- [1] Herbert Avram died in January 2006 at age 92.
- His wife of 64 years, computer programmer Henriette, succumbed to cancer three months later.
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