US Chess Affairs/ 2015 Yearbook
James R. Meyer • Martin Morrison • Sevan A. Muradian • Glenn A. Peter sen • Boris Postovsky • Tim Redman • Boyd Reed • Tony D. Rich • L. Thad Rogers • Sophia Rohde • Eric Schiller • Robert N. Singletary • Bill J. Snead • Harold Stenzel • Robert F. Sutter, Jr. • Robert B. Tanner • Tracey Vibbert
FIDE SENIOR TRAINER (FST) GM Lev O. Alburt • IM Armen Ambartsoumian • GM Jaan Ehlvest • GM Boris F. Gulko • GM Gregory S. Kaidanov • Michael Khodarkovsky • GM Semon Palatnik • GM Zsuzsa Polgar • Boris Postovsky • GM Yasser Seirawan • GM Miron N. Sher
FIDE TRAINER (FT) FM Kevin L. Bachler • GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez • WIM Beatriz M. Marinello • Lou Mercuri • IM Vladimir Prosviriakov
FIDE INSTRUCTOR (FI) WFM Chouchanik Airapetian • WGM Camilla Baginskaite • John P. Buky • Michael Ciamarra • FM Zivorad Djuric • Raymond Duque • IM Ilye Figler • Gregory M. Keener Jr. • Alexander B. King • David MacEnulty • WGM Katerina Nemcova • Frank Niro • Adia Onyango • Tony Pabon • Cornelius Rubsamen • Anatoly Tonkonogy • Batsaikhan Tserendorj • F. Leon Wilson
DEVELOPMENTAL INSTRUCTOR (DI) Stacey Banks • Susan Berger • Derick Bryant • IM John W. Donaldson • Paul Grossman • Jon Haskel • David Heiser • Eric A. Heiser • S.E. Henderson, Jr. • Harry A. Heublum • Alice Holt • GM Melikset Khachiyan • Rachel Levin • Dora Martinez • Shawn Martinez • Dale Miller • Jaafar Mohsin • John Morgan • Ivonne Mykytyn • Jerry Nash • Medina Parrilla • Jayashree Sekar • Alexander Veksler
TOP 50 CORRESPONDENCE
PLAYERS (from International Correspondence Chess Federation).
1. GM Alik Samulovich Zilberberg 2. GM Stephen E. Ham
3. GM Daniel M. Fleetwood 4. GM Jon Ostriker 5. SIM Tim Murray 6. GM Dr. Jason Bokar 7. SIM Keith Holzmueller 8. SIM Jon Edwards
9. SIM Kenneth Holroyd 10. SIM Dan Perry
11. IM Wolff Morrow 12. SIM Wieland Belka
13. SIM Dr. Carl L. Siefring 14. SIM Kenneth M. Reinhart 14. IM Wilbur Tseng
16. GM Dr. Edward P. Duliba 17. IM Bobby Johnson 18. IM Wesley C. Green 19. SIM Kristo S. Miettinen 20. IM Tony Kain
21. SIM Ciaran O’Hare 22. SIM Michael C. Proof 23. SIM John C. Knudsen 24. SIM Thomas Biedermann 25. SIM David R. Myers 26. Robert N. Fass
27. SIM Dr. Michael Millstone 28. Harry Ingersol
28. IM Dr. Martin Stengelin 30. IM William E. Fuller 30. Larry Parsons 32. Grayling V. Hill 33. IM John Ballow 34. Daniel S. Woodard 35. IM John Mousessian 35. IM Thomas Williams 37. Dennis Michael 38. Lawrence Coplin 39. C. O’Connell 40. Gary Walters
41. IM Allan George Savage 42. IM William Boucher 43. Peter Dessaules 44. Chris Torres
45. Donald J. Harvey 46. David Sogin
47. Humberto M. Cruz 48. Michael Brooks 48. George Stone
50. Steve R. Douglas
Rtg. 2602 2587 2561 2559 2556 2552 2531 2510 2509 2508 2501 2495 2490 2466 2466 2461 2459 2455 2451 2450 2440 2433 2430 2427 2425 2415 2414 2411 2413 2410 2410 2407 2406 2402 2401 2401 2398 2394 2393 2391 2389 2387 2383 2377 2376 2375 2367 2362 2362 2360
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZERS (IO) Michael Atkins • Frank K. Berry • James E. Berry • Dr. Frank Brady • Edward Steven Doyle • FM William Goichberg • Francisco Guadalupe • Ankit Gupta • Jon Haskel • Steve Immitt • Mikhail Y. Korenman • Thomas P. Langland • WIM Beatriz M. Marinello • Sevan A. Muradian • GM Semon Palatnik • Tony D. Rich • L. Thad Rogers • Sophia Rohde • Lary F. Rust • Luis A. Salinas • FM Eric Schiller • Patricia K. Smith If you would like more info on FIDE, please check their website at
FIDE.com.
CORRESPONDENCE GRANDMASTERS Hans Berliner • Jason Bokar • Joseph DeMauro • Edward Duliba • Dan Fleetwood • Stephen Ham • Jon Ostriker • Victor Palciauskas • John Timm • Alik Zilberberg
CORRESPONDENCE INTERNATIONAL
MASTERS Gary Abram • Tony Albano • Wayne Bal lantyne • John Ballow • Wieland Belka • Pavao Bjazevic (Ecuador native, U.S. resident) • William Boucher • Jos eph Callaway • Frank Camaratta • Wayne Conover • Robert Cross • Karl Dehmelt • Alfred Y. Deuel • Mehan Divanbaigyzand • Rene duCret • Doug Eckert • Igor Foyel • William (Liam) Fuller • Bart Gibbons • Isay Golyak • Steven Grant • Wesley Green • Keith Hay ward • Herbert Hickman • Robert Jacobs • Bobby Johnson • Bobby Jones • C. Bill Jones • Craig W. Jones • Tony Kain • John Kalish • Spencer Kell • Edgardo V. Limayo • Marc Lonoff • William Maillard • Michael Melts • John Menke • Wolff Morrow • Dave Myers • John Mousessian • Cesar Musitani • Robert Rey nolds • Robert Rizzo • Keith Rodriguez • Allan Savage • Corky Schakel • James Skeels • Dr. Martin Stengelin • Hisham Sunna • Eric Tangborn • Steve Tennant • Paul L. Thompson • Jeffrey Tilghman • Wilbur Tseng • Chris Van Dyck • Alan Watson • Thomas Williams • Walter Wood
CORRESPONDENCE INTER NATIONAL
WOMEN MASTERS Gina Lo Sasso • Christine Rosenfield
CORRESPONDENCE SENIOR INTERNATIONAL MASTERS Thomas Biedermann • Jason Bokar • Wesley Brandhorst • Richard S. Callaghan • Edward Duliba • Jon Edwards • Kevin W. Embrey • Daniel M. Fleetwood • Kenneth Holroyd • Keith Holzmueller • Stephen L. Jones • John Knudsen • Gary L. Kubach • Dave Myers • Jerry Meyers • Kristo Miettinen • Michael Millstone • Wolff Morrow • Tim Murray • Ciaran O’Hare (Irish native, U.S. resident) • Jon Ostriker • Anotole Parnas • Dan Perry • N. Eric Pedersen • Michael Proof • Ken Reinhart • Christopher Sergel • Carl Siefring • Jerry Weisskohl • Max Zavanelli
CORRESPONDENCE INTERNATIONAL
ARBITERS David Adamson • Bryce Avery • Thomas Biedermann • Ted Bullockus • J. Franklin Campbell • Maurice Carter • Tom Dougherty • Grayling Hill • Alan A. Jones • Ben Koppin • Keith Rodriguez • James Skeels • Wesley K. Underwood • Allen Wright • Max Zavanelli. For more information on ICCF, write to ICCF-US, 360 K Street, Brawkey, CA 92227, or e-mail
bied26@gmail.com.
COMPOSITION Titles for composers of chess problems and endgame studies are overseen by FIDE’s Per ma nent Commission for Chess Compo sition. The commission periodically issues albums of com posers’ best pieces. A composer receives points for each problem and endgame chosen for an album. Twenty-five points are needed for an international master title, 70 for a grandmaster title.
GRANDMASTER FOR CHESS
COMPOSITION None
INTERNATIONAL MASTER FOR CHESS
COMPOSITION Richard Becker • Pal Benko • George Sphicas
INTERNATIONAL JUDGE FOR CHESS COMPOSITION David Brown • Robert Burger • Dr. Newman Gutt man • Mike Prcic
US CHESS AWARDS
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD 2014 Jim Berry
2015 Al Lawrence (TX), Pal Benko (Hungary)
OUTSTANDING CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2014 Gary Kitts (MI), Harvey Lerman (FL) L. Gordon Brooks (S-CA), Robert Haines (NM), Jim
2015 Talmadge (AZ)
SPECIAL SERVICES AWARD 2014 Alan Kaufman (MI) David Grimaud (SC), Ron Kensek (NM), Steve Perea (NM), Barbara DeMaro (NY)
2015
MERITORIOUS SERVICES AWARD 2014 Justin Morrison (GA), Daniel Fuller (MS), Dr. Rose Marie Stutts (AL) Daniel Rensch (AZ), Robby Adamson (AZ), Enrique Huerta (AZ), Elizabeth Shaughnessy (N-CA)
2015
COMMITTEE OF THE YEAR 2014 Senior Committee
2015 Website Advisory Committee
CHESS CITY OF THE YEAR 2014 Brownsville, Texas Sunrise, Florida
2015
KOLTANOWSKI AWARD 2014 Gold: Bill Goichberg and the Continental Chess Association
2015 Gold: Frank Berry (OK); Silver: Amy Lee (BC)
U.S. CHESS HALL OF FAME Inductees 2014 Abraham Kupchik, Jacqueline Piatigorsky Alexander Shabalov
2015
SCHOLASTIC SERVICE AWARDS 2014 Mitchell Denker (posthumously)(NC) Individual: Roger Gotschall (IA); Organization:
2015 U.S. Chess Trust
ORGANIZER OF THE YEAR 2014 The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis Al and Janelle Losoff (NV)
2015
FRANK J. MARSHALL AWARD 2014 IM Greg Shahade (PA) Don Schultz (FL)
2015
GRANDMASTER OF THE YEAR 2014 GM Alex Onischuk
2015 GM Sam Shankland (N-CA)
HONORARY CHESS MATE 2014 Joan Priest
2015 Myron and Rachel Lieberman (AZ)
THE GALLERY OF DISTINGUISHED CHESS JOURNALISTS 2009 Shelby Lyman 2010 John Hillery
JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 Brian Jerauld Mike Klein
2015
CHESS CLUB OF THE YEAR 2014 Central Florida Chess Club (FL) NorCal House of Chess (N-CA)
2015
CHESS COLLEGE OF THE YEAR 2014 Texas Tech University (TX) Webster University (MO)
2015
TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 2014 Bob Messenger
2015 Mike Hoffpauir (VA) LIFETIME TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR
OF THE YEAR 2014 Denis Barry (posthumously), E. Steven Doyle, L. Thad Rogers, Stephen Dillard
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