Hugh Myers

Hugh Edward Myers was an American chess master and author. He won or tied for first in the state chess championships of Illinois , Wisconsin , Missouri , and Iowa , as well as the USCF Region VIII championship . He played first board for the Dominican Republic in the 1968 and 1976 Chess Olympiads.

Myers was born in Decatur, Illinois on January 23, 1930. At age 10, he learned to play chess from Laskers Manual of Chess, a famous treatise by former World Champion Emanuel Lasker. The book had a lasting influence on him, including Laskers encouragement regarding the openings, the ground trodden above is yet rather new, and you may explore it as well as anyone else.160 After his father brought home the December 1943 issue of Chess Review, Myers began visiting the Decatur Chess Club weekly. In 1946, he played in his first chess tournament, finishing second in the Decatur high school championship.

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