Standing: Jon Haskel President Florida Chess Association; Beatriz Marinello Former President USCF; Tim Redman Former President USCF representing college chess; Rourke O’Brien President AF4C; Steve Shutt Co-Chair Scholastic Council; Joel Berez President ICC; Harold Winston Chairman US Chess Trust; Mike Nolan USCF Data Base Consultant; Casey Steinbacher Retreat Facilator; Mikhail Korenman Exec Director Chess for Peace Foundation; Michael Khodarkovsky, President Kasparov Chess Foundation; Robert Tanner USCF Secretary; Seated: Bill Hall, USCF Executive Director; Don Schultz, Vice Pres. USCF; Joel Channing USCF VP Finance; Joel Benjamin, former US Chess Champion; Dan Lucas, Editor Chess Life; Bill Goichberg, USCF President Missing: Jerry Hanken, President CJA and GIL Luna, Hall of FameAbove Left: Gil Luna, Joel Channing, Tim Redman, Jerry Hanken, Beatriz Marinello, Steve Shutt, Bill Goichberg, Casey SteinbacherAbove Right: Casey Steinbacher conducting Retreat sessionAbove Left: 2006 FIDE VC at work in Athens, Lakhdar Mazouz, chair; Davis Jarrett, Treasurer and Don SchultzAbove Right: GM Arnold Denker’s last chess game. Tim Redman and Don Schultz lost a consultation match with Arnold on Dec. 13, 2004. One month short of his ninety-first birthday, Arnold passed away Jan. 2, 2005.
Best Restaurant
My favorite restaurant above. It is in Paris two blocks from the Concord Layfayett Hotel.Inexpensive! Great atmosphere. No reservation, must wait on line – 20 to 30 minutes. One meal – Entrecote Steak and Frites – Delicious! Served with excellent wine -they keep serving more wine and steak until you say otherwise As for the deserts – the very best.
Below are some photos from Mikhail Gorbachev’s 2005 visit to Lindsborg, Kansas
Teresa and Don getting ready for Gorbachev paradeGorbachev kissing Susan PolgarPolgar and Gorbachev at Chess for Peace Luncheon with DonWorld Champion Anatoly Karpov, Gorbachev, Teresa and Donald on Viewing stand- Chess for Peace Parade, Lindsborg, Kansas
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Don Schultz
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.
I edited the award winning Chess magazine: floridaCHESS, started both the prestigious Gallery of Distinguished Chess Journalists and the “Cramer Awards” program for excellence in chess journalism. In 1993 and 1994, together with Grandmaster Yaser Seirawan, I managed a ches school for children.
