Larry Evans (chess player)

Larry Evans
Full name	Larry Melvyn Evans
Country	United States
Born	(1932-03-22)March 22, 1932 New York, New York, U.S.
Died	November 15, 2010(2010-11-15) (aged 78) Reno, Nevada, U.S.
Title	Grandmaster (1957)
Peak rating	2631 (October 1978)
Peak ranking	No. 30 (January 1977)

Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) 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.