Walter Shipman, a gentlemanly amateur with a chess pro’s talent
Walter Shipman, one of the last great amateurs from the great postwar generation of American chess, died last month at the age of 87 following a long illness. His day job as a lawyer may have kept Shipman from reaching the very top, and certainly prevented him from competing in big-money international events over the course…
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