My name is Don Schultz. I am a retired IBMer. In 1987, at the age of 51, after 30 years with IBM, I retired in order to devote full time to volunteer chess promotions. I'm married, have three daughters and nine grandchildren. Awho has spent the last half century active in chess promotion at the local national and international. While with IBM I travelled extensively. much of my travel was international as I was assigned to IBM's worldwide marketing center in Brussels for five years and their European headquarters in Paris for another five years. During this time, I served in many chess leadership positions both for the United States Chess Federation and FIDE.

For the last 45 years, I  am the US delegate representing the US Chess Federation to FIDE.

In the early sixties, I organized many tournaments including the 1962 NY Open won by Bobby Fischer, the 1963 US 30.30 Championship won by GM Larry Evans and the 1967 US Junior Open won by Alan Rufty. I founded the Poughkeepsie IBM Chess Club and together with John Bischoff of Yorktown Heights founded the Hudson Valley Chess League and I played second Board for the Poughkeepsie team

In 1972, I was an administrative assistant to Bobby Fischer in the Fischer/Spassky World Championship Match. During this period I lived in Brussels and played for the Brussels team and later the Waterloo Chess Club.  

In 1981, I organized in Atlanta, GA., the only FIDE Congress ever held in the USA. From 1980 to !982 together with the President of the USSR Chess Federation, former Cosmonaut Vitaly Sevestianov, I served  as co-chair of FIDE's Commission to UNESCO.

During the 1990s I organized several major tournaments including the 1990 World Youth Championships in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; the 1991 US Women’s Championship in my hometown of Highland Beach; the 1993 Amateur Team East Final at the Baltimore Yacht Club, the 1994 US Championship in Key West, Florida; and the 1996 New York International in New York City (one of the strongest chess tournaments ever held in the USA). During this period, I organized a tour of seven US cities by a team of ten Israeli chess children where they competed against local chess children,  a match between Florida children and Jamaican children in Orlando, Florida and a telephone match between Florida children and Australian children.