July Preview / This month in Chess Life and CLO
Editor’s Letter:An Adventure We Share Together
I hope you’ve been enjoying the “Faces Across the Board” department that we introduced last summer. Each month we write about three class-level play- ers who have an achievment of note in the chess world, be it a successful tournament result or devising an interesting chess promotion. This month’s Faces includes a profile of Jeff Roland of Idaho. Something he is quoted as saying struck a chord with me: “What interests me most about chess is meeting peo- ple. Each game is kind of an adventure we share together.” If you are a USCF member, then I suspect you feel much the same about chess. No matter how much you may be deeply involved in studying the intricacies of the latest Benoni novelty or trying to understand the Philidor position, ultimately you are interested in being part of the chess community, and you share in the ups-and-downs of Hikaru Nakamura’s results on the international stage, the players in your state’s championship, and maybe even local beginning scholastic players.
Of late, this shared adventure seems to include too many of our former top players’ obituaries appearing in these pages. Bobby Fischer in 2007, GM Larry Evans in 2010, and now GM Robert Byrne. Frank Niro, a former executive director of the USCF and now currently the interim president of the Chess Journalists of Amer- ica (incidentally, Jeff Roland is the interim vice-president) paints a nuanced portrait of Byrne beginning on page 18. Byrne’s adventure in chess has been a shared one over the decades with readers of Chess Review, Chess Life and Review, and Chess Life. Even casual players were likely aware of Byrne due to his weekly New York Times chess column that ran from 1972 until it ended in 2006, the same year that his Chess Life column “The 65th Square” ended.
Chess Life continues to make the people who play chess our editorial focus, so our shared adventure will include many more celebrations and sad obituar- ies. Help us on the celebratory side by putting your face in Chess Life by writing to
faces@uschess.org. Here’s to your chess life. -Daniel Lucas, Editor
CHESS LIFE ONLINE PREVIEW: JULY
The Fun Begins in Madison! Look for coverage of the 2013 Barber Tournament of K-8 Champions, the Denker Tournament of High School champions and a new event, the National Girls’ Invitational Tournament in Madison, Wisconsin (photo, below). All three events span July 27-30 and kick off the festivities at the US Open (July 27- August 4). Expect many of our young talents to also play the main event- each player from a state that enters a participant in all three tournaments will receive free entry to the U.S. Open.
The U.S. Open also features a host of side events and key USCF meetings. Follow CLO for all the latest news and share your own experiences on
twitter.com/uschess &
facebook.com/uschess.
WORLD OPEN IN THE CAPITAL: Celebrate the World Open’s (July 3-7) new loca- tion in Arlington, Virginia, just a few miles from District of Columbia. Our coverage will include reportage by Jamaal Abdul-Alim and U.S. Chess Scoop videos, which you can find on CLO or our YouTube channel at
YouTube.com/USChessFederation.
SILMAN ON APPS: Renowned author & International Master Jeremy Silman writes his first article for CLO, an overview of popular chess apps. “I own 1,500 apps on different subjects that I study carefully for ease of use, status in regard to competi- tors & cutting-edge technology.”
CLOSE-UP ON COMPUTER CHESS: Dr. WIM Alexey Root interviews Alex Lipschultz, producer of the movie, Computer Chess as the film begins its American theatrical release from July through August.
Follow Chess Life and Chess Life Online on Facebook! Get regular updates as part of your newsfeed, post comments, and easily communicate directly with the editorial staff. Frank Niro
Our cover story author is a former president of the U.S. Chess Trust and a chess journalist for four decades. He has served as editor of Chess Horizons and Northwest Chess. Presently he splits his time between Boise, Idaho, and Ithaca, New York, where he teaches strategic planning to health administration students at Cornell University.
Christen McCurdy
The Chessplayers with Disabilities author is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon. She has written for The Oregonian, The Portland Mercury, Nerve, and The Lund Report, an online publication on health and healthcare policy.
Jorge Barrera
Our All-Girls photo essay writer/ photographer has been teaching chess in schools for ten years. Starting at the Berkeley Chess School in California, he now lives in Chicago and teaches as part of the Renaissance Knights Chess Foundation.
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