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Correspondence Chess News

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It has been said that “The plight of the Correspondence Chess player is to toil in anonymity to add a grain of sand to the body of chess knowledge.” As a regular part of my blog, I will now feature the often misunderstood hobby of correspondence chess. Many of the chess opening novelties we have seen featured in locations such as Linares, Wijk aan Zee and Sofia were indeed created in the lonely laboratories of the correspondence chess master.  Below is February’s United States Chess Federation list for the top 100 correspondence players.  Of special mention is Alex Dunne who writes a wonderful monthly article on the subject of correspondence chess entitled “The Check is in the Mail.” You can find his collection of articles here: http://main.uschess.org/content/view/7527/397/

1 Cullum, Chuck (12683996) MA USA 2486
2 Duliba, Edward P (10147310) PA USA 2485
3 O’Hare, Ciaran (12540472) OK USA 2447
4 O’Connell, Christopher Ian (10206600) DE USA 2436
5 Van Enk, Steven J (12729266) OR USA 2433
6 Brandhorst, Wesley (10177103) FL USA 2432
7 Greene, David F (12547622) NJ USA 2423
8 Cook, Randy (12414122) AZ USA 2421
9 Wilson, Abe L (12483963) HI USA 2412
10 Miettinen, Kristo, Maj (12486315) NY USA 2403
11 Rose, Bleys W (12405134) CA USA 2395
12 Concha, Hugo J (12464289) FL USA 2391
13 Tracz, James G (12398324) OH USA 2385
14 Brack, Frank Edward (12412040) TX USA 2383
15 Brower, Walter J (12416332) AL USA 2379
16 Langland, Thomas P (11236219) CA USA 2373
17 Daves, Dana Drew, Sr (12395110) NC USA 2369
18 Schultheis, Donald H, Sr (10183758) MD USA 2365
19 Levine, Joel (10099200) NY USA 2361
20 Keating, Robert F (12641782) IA USA 2358
21 Buss, Michael D (12437668) IN USA 2355
22 Swan, Peter Lee (10163421) CO USA 2349
23 Fass, Robert (10127319) NY USA 2348
24 Walters, Gary (12617923) OH USA 2342
25 Adams, Gary R (12515217) AZ USA 2339
26 Baffo, Jeffrey (10340195) CO USA 2335
27 Sogin, David Warren (12546407) KY USA 2327
28 Rodriguez, Keith (10118735) FL USA 2310
29 Ballow, John (12397699) CA USA 2309
30 Anderson, Laurence Allyn (12238840) MO USA 2308
31 Woodard, Daniel S (12410084) NV USA 2307
32 Stueber, Guido J (12677347) FL USA 2304
33 Schakel, Corky (10318602) MN USA 2303
34 Ryan, Patrick J (10050880) NJ USA 2300
35 Greene, Sanford I (10107369) NY USA 2289
36 Prieto, Alberto (10377811) GA USA 2287
37 Ingersol, Harry (10347394) MO USA 2285
38 Weiner, Gerald H (10061237) CT USA 2283
39 Magat, Gordon B (10088828) NY USA 2281
Funston, David A, P-37790 (12829713) CA USA 2281
41 Gales, Wesley V (12487508) WI USA 2278
42 Boege, Harold W (10323126) MN USA 2274
43 Endsley, Barry E (10397901) MI USA 2272
44 Jacobs Jr, Charles A (12746276) AK USA 2271
45 Miehm, Robert (11046894) TN USA 2262
46 Bonsack, Laurence T (12500562) CA USA 2261
47 Cruz, Humberto (10231221) FL USA 2259
48 Walker, Barry Wood (12483835) MO USA 2255
49 Motta, Paul S (10435986) OR USA 2254
50 Rhodes, James E (12687721) CA USA 2248
51 Jones, Jan (12475891) AZ USA 2247
52 Ireland, R Scott (12217080) FL USA 2246
53 Dunne, Alex (10155576) PA USA 2245
Strock, Faraday J (12501396) IL USA 2245
55 Cross, Gregory W (12280220) TX USA 2244
56 Hillery, John K (10010250) CA USA 2242
57 Marshall, Michael J (12126310) GA USA 2240
58 Meiners, Edwin Paul, Iii (10395801) AZ USA 2239
Smith, Steven Richard (11097332) PA USA 2239
60 Calogridis, Michael S (10394546) TX USA 2238
61 Eilmes, Don P (10462398) CA USA 2232
62 Shipman, Joseph L (10114322) NJ USA 2227
Mcgregor, Stephen Dean (12437976) TX USA 2227
64 Everitt, Gordon T (12201480) LA USA 2223
65 Kell, Spencer R (10431646) CA USA 2222
66 Endler, Jeffrey I (10031923) DE USA 2215
67 Brochard, Thomas W (11155669) CT USA 2214
68 Albanesi, Paul L (11033482) NY USA 2213
Delehanty, Thomas (12642096) NY USA 2213
70 Poole, Kenneth J (12249130) CA USA 2210
71 Connelly, Thomas P (10132258) VA USA 2202
72 Porter, David William (12514878) MD USA 2194
73 Hensley, Michael F (12713876) MS USA 2192
74 Van Dooren, James (12658352) FL USA 2191
75 Harris, Timothy Mark (13443503) SC USA 2189
76 Robledo, Mark, Sr (12597337) IL USA 2188
77 Hampton, Robert C (10426162) NM USA 2181
Vaughan, James Gerald, Jr (12543480) OH USA 2181
79 Ellis, James R (11301037) GA USA 2179
80 Radomskyj, Peter (12460475) NJ USA 2178
81 Mclaughlin, Richard Francis (12443601) NY USA 2173
82 Rogers, Bradley K (12317970) MI USA 2172
83 Addis, Edward L, Ii (10505551) OR USA 2168
84 Ovadya, Menahem (12746310) CA USA 2164
85 Barber, Richard A (10416787) CO USA 2162
Furse, Norman J (10890527) KS USA 2162
Tseng, Wilbur (12692226) IL USA 2162
88 Boles, Robert Lowell (10483522) CA USA 2160
Lauterbach, Michael (12028490) CT USA 2160
90 Hammel, David C (10261694) IA USA 2159
91 Babcock, Thomas Charles (10841704) MN USA 2158
92 Lane, Riley E (12135170) GA USA 2151
Flowers, Brian R (12447657) CT USA 2151
94 Allard, Michael N (10365520) MD USA 2148
Soricelli, Gerard C (12428749) NY USA 2148
Hoefdraad, Gillmore Andre (12806102) MD USA 2148
97 Murray-Miller, Morgan (12609710) NY USA 2147
98 Weiss, Lester (10279321) IN USA 2142
99 Chilson, Steven Wayne (10137446) VA USA 2139
Lewis, Walter J (10470544) CA USA 2139

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Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.

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