It was surprising because it was Weissman's first college tournament although he had twice turned in creditable performances in the biennial team event. His score was equaled by Bisguier, Berliner and Karl Burger, but
the tie-breaking system gave Weissman first.
When he passed away on July 13, 2013 at the age of 79 after a 20 year battle with Parkinson’s disease, Dr. Albert Weissman of Noank, Connecticut was a retired veteran of Pfizer’s Central Nervous System research team.
Weissman, who retired in 1995 from Pfizer in Groton, was for many years the manager of the neurobehavioral, biochemical and neurological testing groups during the development phases of several drugs, including Zoloft, Navane, Quantril, and Sinequan. He was also known for his many basic studies and scholarly reviews in the field of neuropsychopharmacology. His total number of scholarly publications exceeded 100.
In 1956 he was co-authors of two landmark scientific papers describing the mechanism of action of a couple of drugs. Both papers were among the most cited scientific research reports of all time.
Weissman was born on August 1, 1933, in the Bronx, New York. He attended New York City elementary schools and the Bronx High School of Science, from which he graduated in 1950. His undergraduate college education was at the New York Uniuversity where in 1954 he received his A.B. in physiological psychology. He received his Masters (1955) and PhD (1958) in physiological psychology from Columbia University. His entire professional career was with Pfizer.
Dr. Weissman was an accomplished player and in the mid-1960s, he was the third ranked correspondence player in the US. Besides chess he also maintained a life-long interest in music, especially opera, and he played the role of Tevya in the Pfizer Players’ 1972 production of Fiddler on the Roof.
In the Fall 1953 USCF rating list Bisguier was ranked 8th with a rating of 2460. Hans Berline was a Master at 2413 as was Karl Burger at 2306. Ratings were a bit different at that time. Grandmasters were over 2700 and there was only one, Samuel Reshevsky. Senior Masters were rated between 2500 and 2699 and there were only 5 of them. Masters were rated 2300-2499 and Experts 2100-2299.
Weissman’s name does not show up on the list because the Intercollegiate was not rated. That was not unusual; in those days not all tournaments were.
Albert Weissman–Arthur Bisguier1–0C11US Intercollegiate Chp, New York1953Stockfish 16
C05: French Defense 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.c3 f6 4.e5 The Steinitz
Variation. It prepares to bolster the P-centre with c2–c3 and f2–f4; fd7 5.ce2 With this move white wants to support d4 with the c-Pawn, but 5.f4 is
considerably more popular c5 6.c3 c6 This is the main line and it's the
most popular by far. However, white scores quite well against it, winning
almost half of the games. Black's best is 6...cxd4 7.f4 cxd4 8.xd4
Weissman goes his own way here. Theory recommends 8.cxd4 in order to maintain
control of c5. xd4 Bisguier also plays his own game. 8...Nc5 is probably a
little better. 8...dxe5 was tried in Klerides,P (2183)-Spice,A (2170)
Heraklio 2007. but it's tota;;y unsound. 9.fxe5 h4+ 10.g3 e4+ 11.e2 xe5 12.xe5 xe5 13.b5+ d7 14.xd7+ xd7 15.e2 and it didn't take black
long to realize that he didn't have a chance. 9.cxd4 f6 This attempt to
undermine white's center head on does not turn out well. A better idea was 9...
Qb6 and the black's best plan, even though it costs time, is to retreat the N
to b8 so he can devlop his B with Bd7. 10.d3 The threat is Qh5+ b4+ 11.f1 11.d2 Eliminating his bad B was better. After xd2+ 12.xd2 fxe5 13.fxe5 b8 14.f3 c6 15.b5 d7 the position is equal. Skibbe,D (2080)-Leib,
B (2040) Rodewisch 2000 11...0-0 Black threatens ...fxe5 and ...Nxe5 12.h5 f5 As a result of this move, which weakens g4 and leaves the e-Pawn
permanently vulnerable, white secures a slight advantage. 12...g6 keeps
the balance. 13.xg6 Otherwise black gets slightly the better of it. hxg6 14.xg6+ h8 and wite draws. 13.f3 aiming for Ng5. g6 This creates a
further slight weakening of black's position. 13...Be7 was safer. 14.h6 e8 15.g5 White has the initiative, but with careful play black
should be able to defend himself. e7 16.h4 g7 17.xg7+ xg7 The exchange
of Qs has mot lessened white's in initiative. 18.h5 f8 19.hxg6 hxg6 20.e2 d7 21.d2 e7 Black wants to retain the possibility of ...Bxg5 and at the
same time keeps white's bad B on the board. 22.h3 a6 Having done all he
can to secure his K's position, Bisguier now tried for counterplay on the
Q-side. 23.ah1 b5 Hoping to obtain play on the a-file. However, Weissman
continues with his K-side operations. 24.h8 This menaces 25.Nxe6+ xd3+ 25.xd3 xg5 26.fxg5 This position is won for white. a5 This keeps
white's B from entering the game via Bb4 27.b4 White forces an entry for
his B anyway. f7 The K heads for the Q-side where Bisguier hopes it will be
able to creat some threat. 28.bxa5 e7 29.b4+ d7 30.g8 c6 31.hh8 b5 32.xf8 Ending the game. xf8 33.xf8 xf8 34.xf8 xa5 White's K and B
will easily hold off on the Q-side. 35.c3 a4 36.e7 b5 37.f8 Black
resigned. A fine positional effort by Weissman. 1–0
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