# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-evans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:36:15.031Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-evans"
name: "Larry Evans"
slug: "larry-evans"
description: "Larry Melvyn Evans was an American chess player, author, and journalist who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1957. He won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times and the U.S. Open Chess Championship four times. He wrote a long-running syndicated chess column and wrote or co-wrote more than twenty books on chess."
tagline: "American chess player (1932–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Larry_Evans_(1964).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1932-03-22"
deathDate: "2010-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.15
  momentum:             15
  historical:           14.41998
  currentAttention:     6.440000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Evans"
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    title: "Larry Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Evans_(chess_player)"
    title: "Larry Evans (chess player)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Evans"
    title: "Larry Evans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Evans"
    title: "Larry Evans"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Evans"
    title: "Larry Evans"
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    title: "לארי אוונס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Larry Evans"
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  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lerijs_Evanss"
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    title: "Larry Evans"
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    title: "Larry Evans"
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    title: "Larry Evans (satranç oyuncusu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump