Next stop in the saga of USCF Awards: 1990-91, except I haven't found a 1990 list published in CL. If I continue to come up empty-handed, I'll look at the yearbooks.
Empty-handed I am. In the first post in the series, U.S. Chess Cities of the Year (March 2021), I mentioned that my original working list of awards came from the 2013 USCF Yearbook. The following table shows the 1990 awards listed by that yearbook.
Year | Award | Winner(s) |
---|---|---|
1990 | COMMITTEE OF THE YEAR | Tournament Direction Certification Committee |
1990 | DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD | Steve Doyle |
1990 | KOLTANOWSKI AWARDS | Gold: Arnold Denker, Helen Warren |
1990 | OUTSTANDING CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD | Roger Blaine, Lee Hyder, Russell Miller |
1990 | SPECIAL SERVICE AWARD | Denis Barry |
1990 | U.S. CHESS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES | Hans Berliner |
What does the 1991 yearbook say about the 1990 awards? In a word: nothing! Although the USCF's first yearbook (the '1982 Chess Yearbook') appeared in the April 1983 issue of Chess Life (CL), the awards weren't added to the yearbook until 1995. They covered the previous year, 1994.
The 1990 awards that appeared in 1995 were incomplete. Two were missing:-
- SPECIAL SERVICE AWARD
- COMMITTEE OF THE YEAR
They must have been added to the yearbook for a later edition, but I didn't take the time to look. I'm just glad they were added.
great article and blog
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