Los Angeles, but was abandoned after 11 of the planned 16 games because of a scheduling dispute, with the score tied at 5.5 points apiece. In 1963 at the Ambassador Hotel she staged the first Piatigorsky Cup in which world champion Tigran Petrosian and Paul Keres tied for first place. The California Chess Reporter called it the greatest tournament held in the United States since the 1920s. In 1966, in Santa Monica, Boris Spassky won the second Piatigorsky Cup Tournament, with second place going to Bobby Fischer; this event had an even stronger field. She served as patron for many young California players, providing funds for travel to tournaments, and organized junior tournaments in the Los Angeles area. Sculptor, arts patron Piatigorsky was also a patron of the arts, and in 1985 created an endowment for the New England Conservatory of Music to provide the "New England Conservatory/Piatigorsky Artist Award" which gave the recipient a cash prize and a series of concert engagements. In her 40s, she developed an interest in sculpting, and arranged to take lessons from Anthony Amato. A Los Angeles-area gallery put on the first exhibition of her works in 1976. Widowed at the age of 65, she continued working and playing tennis into her 90s. As of 2003, she was still actively sculpting and she turned 100 in November 2011. Piatigorsky died from complications of pneumonia on July 15, 2012. References First Piatigorsky Cup International Grandmaster Chess Tournament Held in Los Angeles, California July 1963 Second Piatigorsky Cup International Grandmaster Chess Tournament Held in Santa Monica, California August 1966, 1968, edited by Isaac Kashdan, See also the list of references at Rothschild banking family of France. External links Selected Sculptures of Jacqueline Piatigorsky 1911 births 2012 deaths American centenarians American female chess players American people of French-Jewish descent American memoirists Artists from Paris Artists from Los Angeles Artists from New York City Chess patrons French emigrants to the United States 20th-century French Jews Jewish American artists Jewish American philanthropists Jewish American sportspeople Jewish chess players People from Elizabethtown, New York Jews who emigrated to escape Nazism Sportspeople from Paris Sportspeople from Los Angeles Sportspeople from New York City Rothschild family Writers from Paris Writers from Los Angeles Writers from New York City Philanthropists from New York (state) Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery Women centenarians Jewish sportswomen Jewish women sculptors