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Chess

FOR

DUMmIES

‰

2 ND EDITION

by James Eade

Chess For Dummies ® , 2nd 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 corre-

spondence) 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

Player’s Bible (Barron’s). 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 USCF’s 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 Fédération Internationale des Échecs

(FIDE) from 2000 to 2002 and has served on the U.S. Charitable Chess Trust

board of trustees since 2000.

James holds a master’s 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 edition’s 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, Sherri Pfouts, Kristin DeMint, and Jon Edwards, for

their help with this second edition. M. L. Rantala was more than helpful with

the glossary of terms, which I could not 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 this book. Lastly, a spe-

cial thank-you to Lore McGovern, who was the wind at my back from start to

finish.

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