International Grandmaster Arthur Bisguier, U.S. Chess Online�s real-time analyst for the Kamsky/Karpov Match, has had a long and distinguished chess career dating back to the forties when he was twice National Junior Champion and several times Manhattan Chess Club Champion. A roster of players whom he has beaten or drawn over the years reads like a Who�s Who of Chess.

In 1950 Bisguier won the U.S. Open for the first time. He also won or tied for first in 1956, 57, 59, and 69. He finished 1/2 point from the top on numerous other occasions. Bisguier scored his first international victory at Southsea, England. Despite serving a couple of years in the military, Bisguier was able to squeeze in some chess and obtained leave which enabled him to win an international event in Vienna, 1952-53, and to play for the United States in the Olympiad in Helsinki in 1952.

Upon his discharge from the army, he returned home to win the Hollywood Pan American Championship in 1954. That same year he won a challengers tournament in Philadelphia which qualified him for the U.S. Championship. He won the U.S. Championship in 1954 and in the 1962-63 event led the field until the final round when he succumbed to Bobby Fischer and had to content himself with second place.

Grandmaster Bisguier has participated in two Interzonals, five Olympiads, innumerable international tournaments, two team matches against the Soviet Union and one against Yugoslavia. He was awarded the International Master title in 1952 and the International Grandmaster title in 1957. He has also been very successful in domestic tournaments and at one time or another has won virtually every major Swiss event, including the prestigious Lone Pine tournament and the National Open.

The Grandmaster is currently a very popular and active chess lecturer and simultaneous exhibitor, playing as many as 100 players at one time. He has also been a frequent contributor to chess magazines, encyclopedias, and books and has co-authored, with Andrew Soltis, American Chess Masters from Morphy to Fischer.

Extroverted and personable, the Grandmaster has often appeared on television. He hosted his own show which included the move-by-move replay, news, and commentary of the Fischer-Spassky World Championship Match in 1972. A one-time resident Grandmaster for the U.S. Chess Federation and Chess Life magazine, Bisguier has worked in many non-chess areas including accounting, computer programming, technical writing (for IBM), and magazine editing (he was the managing editor of Chess Review). He is married, has two daughters, and currently resides in the Catskill Mountains at Rock Hill, New York.

In 1994, Bisguier was honored for his many outstanding achievements and contributions to American chess by being inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.