Eade - Chess For Dummies

Chess For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by James Eade

Chess For Dummies, 3rd Edition

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About the Author

James Eade began taking chess seriously in 1972, when Bobby Fischer was taking the chess world by storm. He competed on his high school and college teams and became a United States Chess Federation (USCF) chess master in 1981. In 1984 he became a USCF correspondence chess master as well. International organizations awarded him the master title in 1990 (for correspondence) and in 1993 (for regular tournament play), but his chess-playing career has gradually given way to chess writing, organizing, and teaching.

James has written three other books on chess: Remember the MacCutcheon (Chess Enterprises), San Francisco, 1995 (Hypermodern Press), and The Chess Players Bible (Barrons). He has written numerous articles for a variety of magazines and has edited both the Golden Gate Chess News and the California Chess Journal.

In 1991 James began taking an interest in chess political organizations and was elected vice president of CalChess, the Northern California Chess Association, later that year. In 1995 he became CalChess president and was also elected to be president of the Chess Journalists of America. In 1996 he was elected to the USCFs policy board, the executive committee charged with oversight of the multi-million-dollar corporation. He was appointed zone president for the United States for the Fdration Internationale des checs (FIDE) from 2000 to 2002 and has served on the U.S. Charitable Chess Trust board of trustees since 2000. He was elected president of the Trust in 2010.

James holds a masters degree in organization development from the University of San Francisco and still bristles at being called a chess nerd.

Dedication

To Sheri for suffering chess fools gladly.

Author's Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Sheri Anderson for all her encouragement and support throughout this writing project. I really appreciated the feedback I got from the first edition of Chess For Dummies, especially the input I received from George Mirijanian, Frisco Del Rosario, and Wayne Praeder.

My editors for the first edition, Bill Helling and Bill Barton, deserve a special thanks for drilling it into my head that not everyone knows Ruy Lopez from Nancy Lopez, and for keeping me on the straight and narrow. My thanks also go to the first editions technical editor, John Peterson, who is a better friend than chess player and he happens to be a very good chess player. I also wish to thank my editors for the second edition, Sherri Pfouts, Kristin DeMint, and Jon Edwards, for their help. I would like to thank my editors for the third edition, Georgette Beatty and Christy Pingleton, as well as my technical editor, Al Lawrence. Al is the former Executive Director of the USCF and made a number of first-rate contributions to this latest edition. M.L. Rantala was more than helpful with the glossary of terms, which I couldnt have done without her most able assistance.

I wish to thank my father, Arthur Eade, for teaching me chess, and my mother, Marilyn, for her touching advance order for the first edition. Lastly, a special thank-you to Lore McGovern, who was the wind at my back from start to finish.

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