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John Donaldson
October 28, 2018
I have written on retirement from chess:
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...ent-from-chess
and
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...s-quotes/page4
See post No. 55, July 27, 2014 for Mabbs, Kasparov and Adams.
To those, add John Donaldson:
MI Chess Director John Donaldson Retires
International Master John Donaldson, the longest-serving chess director in the history of the Mechanics’ Institute, has decided to step down after twenty years of service. Donaldson considered it a good time to retire when he recently joined Barry Bonds in the 500/500 club (500 games rated over 2500 USCF and 500 USCF rated tournaments directed). He looks forward to playing more and continuing his other chess-related activities.
Like many chess players from his generation John Donaldson became fascinated with the game while following the Fischer–Spassky World Championship match played in the summer of 1972. Not long after it ended he joined the Tacoma (Washington) Chess Club where despite a late start (age 14) he made steady progress earning his National Master and Senior Master titles in 1977 and 1979 respectively. He became an International Master in 1983 shortly after graduating from the University of Washington with a BA in history. He currently has two of the needed three norms for the grandmaster title.
The past 35 years Donaldson has been a chess professional working as a writer, journalist, coach and historian of the game, as well as playing. He has served as the U.S. team captain 21 times including 13 of the biennial Chess Olympiads. Highlights include first-place finishes in the 1993 World Team Championship and the 2016 Chess Olympiad.
He is also the author of over 30 books on all aspects of chess with an emphasis on the history of the game and individual players. Among his best-known works are biographies on Akiva Rubinstein and Bobby Fischer.
(He is the author of The Life and Games of Frank Ross Anderson 1928-1980, Moravian Chess 2009)
Besides being Director of the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Room he also works as a consultant for the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, and is the Secretary for the Samford Fellowship, which is awarded annually to the top chess prospect in the United States.
https://www.chessclub.org/news.php
Mechanics’ Institute Chess Room Newsletter
#846, October 26, 2018
October 28, 2018
I have written on retirement from chess:
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...ent-from-chess
and
https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...s-quotes/page4
See post No. 55, July 27, 2014 for Mabbs, Kasparov and Adams.
To those, add John Donaldson:
MI Chess Director John Donaldson Retires
International Master John Donaldson, the longest-serving chess director in the history of the Mechanics’ Institute, has decided to step down after twenty years of service. Donaldson considered it a good time to retire when he recently joined Barry Bonds in the 500/500 club (500 games rated over 2500 USCF and 500 USCF rated tournaments directed). He looks forward to playing more and continuing his other chess-related activities.
Like many chess players from his generation John Donaldson became fascinated with the game while following the Fischer–Spassky World Championship match played in the summer of 1972. Not long after it ended he joined the Tacoma (Washington) Chess Club where despite a late start (age 14) he made steady progress earning his National Master and Senior Master titles in 1977 and 1979 respectively. He became an International Master in 1983 shortly after graduating from the University of Washington with a BA in history. He currently has two of the needed three norms for the grandmaster title.
The past 35 years Donaldson has been a chess professional working as a writer, journalist, coach and historian of the game, as well as playing. He has served as the U.S. team captain 21 times including 13 of the biennial Chess Olympiads. Highlights include first-place finishes in the 1993 World Team Championship and the 2016 Chess Olympiad.
He is also the author of over 30 books on all aspects of chess with an emphasis on the history of the game and individual players. Among his best-known works are biographies on Akiva Rubinstein and Bobby Fischer.
(He is the author of The Life and Games of Frank Ross Anderson 1928-1980, Moravian Chess 2009)
Besides being Director of the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Room he also works as a consultant for the World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis, and is the Secretary for the Samford Fellowship, which is awarded annually to the top chess prospect in the United States.
https://www.chessclub.org/news.php
Mechanics’ Institute Chess Room Newsletter
#846, October 26, 2018
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