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BD:08/03 Other inquiries: [email protected], (931) 787-1234, fax (931) 787-1200 2 November 2013 | Chess Life CL_11-2013_CLO_AKF_r6_FB_AK_DL_chess life 10/15/13 4:55 PM Page 3 November Preview / This month in Chess Life and CLO Editor’s Letter: Anything But “Jade”ed This is an anniversary of sorts for me and my relationship with Chess Life. 35 years ago (the Jade anniver- sary year) my newly-minted-USCF-member father received his first issue of Chess Life in the mail, an issue this 14-year-old chess fanatic quickly devoured. We had visited family in New York City the previous sum- mer, and we took some time to make a chess pilgrimage to a couple of chess emporiums. We stopped in at The Chess and Checker Club of New York (aka “The Flea House”), the notorius gathering place off of Times Square. This was when 42nd Street was its absolute seediest, and unfortunately this monument to chess reflected that fact. More happily, we also headed uptown to the Upper West Side’s Game Room where the atmosphere was friendlier. It was here that I saw my first copy of Chess Life and also greedily thumbed through dozens of back issues of the late, great, Chess Review. Before we left that evening, my dad had signed up for the USCF. Chess Life was my link to the chess world. Living at the time in a chess wasteland—my only opponent was my dad—I was unaware of names like Pal Benko, Arthur Bisguier, and Joel Benjamin until I read about them in the pages of this magazine. We only had a few basic chess books at home, so I was being intro- duced to cutting-edge opening theory for the first time. As time went on, the magazine became my only source of world championship news as even my local paper didn’t cover any of the Kasparov/Karpov happenings, so I only learned the results weeks, sometimes even months, after the fact.