Tournament

62nd U.S. Open, San Francisco 1961

1961 · San Francisco
Pal Benko won with 11/12, ahead of Zoltan Kovacs on 10; Arthur Bisguier and Robert Byrne shared third on 9½.
Incomplete record·games missing

Incomplete record. This archive holds 257 games of this event; the others are missing, and the number played is not established. Only 257 game scores survive in this archive; contemporary round results prove additional played games are missing, including Burkett–Allen and Goldsmith–Burkett.

Result

11/12
Pal Benko won with 11/12, ahead of Zoltan Kovacs on 10; Arthur Bisguier and Robert Byrne shared third on 9½.

198 registered entrants; the published final table has 197 rows. Ben Figueroa is separately identified by the original round-1 bulletin; the Celle–Figueroa play/default status is unknown.