Chess Journalists of America's 1993 Awards announced
Michael Nolan
Chess Journalists of America
1993 Awards list
(Announced August 12th during the U.S. Open in Philadelphia, PA)
Chess Journalist of the Year: (co-winners) Michael Franett,
Larry Parr, Helen Warren.
Best State Magazine: Chess Horizons; honorable mention:
Atlantic Chess News.
Best State Magazine with circulation under 1000: Empire
Chess; honorable mentions: Illinois Chess Bulletin, Northwest
Chess.
Best Club Bulletin: Cleveland Chess Bulletin.
Best Postal Magazine: Chess Correspondent; honorable
mention: APCT NEWS BULLETIN.
Best Serial Chess Publication: (tie) Inside Chess, Chess
Life, and American Chess Journal.
Most Improved Magazine: Atlantic Chess News.
Best Regular Magazine Column: "Chess to Enjoy," by GM Andy
Soltis, Chess Life; honorable mention: "Endgame Lab," by GM Pal
Benko, Chess Life, and "Wolff's Den," by GM Patrick Wolff, Chess
Horizons.
Best Magazine Tournament Report: (tie) "Anand Upsets
Ivanchuk in Linares Match: inside the Winner's Training Camp," by
GM Patrick Wolff, American Chess Journal, Issue #1 and "U. S.
Championship," by GM Yasser Seirawan, Inside Chess, January 25,
1993; honorable mentions: "Finding Bobby Fischer," by Tim Hanke,
American Chess Journal, Issue #1 and "1992 U. S. Chess
Championship," by GM Alex Fishbein, Chess Life, March - May,
1993.
Best Regular Newspaper Column: (tie) "Scholastic Chess," by
Joe Ippolito, Atlantic Chess News and "Evans on Chess," by GM
Larry Evans, syndicated.
Best Chess Promotion: "Organizing, Directing, and Marketing
Chess," by Karl Heck, Empire Chess, Summer 1992; honorable
mention: "Offer them Brie, or ... 10 Ways to Promote Your Chess
Club," by Weldon E. Dobson, Chess Life, September 1992.
Best Human Interest Story: "Finding Bobby Fischer," by Tim
Hanke, American Chess Journal, Issue #1; honorable mentions:
""Mr. Helms, a Perfect Gentleman," by GM Arnold Denker and Larry
Parr, Chess Life, January 1993; "Chess, the Movie Business and
Steve Martin," by NM Gary M. Simms, Texas Knights, Sept-Oct
1992;and "Bobby Fischer, the Holy Grail -- A Balkan Odyssey," by
WIM Cathy Forbes, Chess Life, March 1993.
Best Historical Article: "Everything you always wanted to
know about Alekhine -- but didn't know enough to ask," by GM
Larry Evans and Larry Parr, Chess Life, May 1993; honorable
mention: "The Marshall Papers," by Andy Soltis, Inside Chess, May
17, 1993.
Best Interview: Cathy Forbes interview of "Viswanathan
Anand," Inside Chess, June 14, 1993; honorable mentions: Tim
Hanke's interview "Finding Bobby Fischer," American Chess
Journal, Issue #1; Morton G. Wenger's interview of "GM Gregory
Kaidanov," Kentucky Chess News; and Michael Cavallo's interview
of "GM Alexander Ivanov," Chess Horizons," July/August 1992.
Best Editorial: "A Dream on the Edge of a Nightmare," by
Warren Pinches, American Chess Journal, Issue #1; honorable
mentions: "Should Bobby Fischer be called a Criminal," by GM
Larry Evans and Larry Parr, Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinal,
December 27, 1992; and "Is U. S. too hard on Fischer?" by Philip
Dorsey, Rochester (NY) Times-Union, January 22, 1993.
Best Humerous Contribution: "The Fischer Myth," by Bob
Basalla, Cleveland Chess Bulletin; honorable mentions: "Beauty
and the Beasts," by Larry Parr, USA Today Sports Network, June
16, 1993; "Clinton Announces New Sin Tax on Chess," by Philip
Dorsey, The Center Files, April 1993; and "Encounter with Ice-
Heads," by Sri Rahm, Chess Life, September 1992.
Best Review: "Chess Life (July 1993)" reviewed by Larry
Parr, USA Today Sports Network, June 16th, 1993; honorable
mentions: "Alekhine Renaissance," reviewed by Edward Winter,
American Chess Journal, Issue #1; "Ruy Lopez Roundup," by Bruce
Leverett, American Chess Journal, Issue #1; and "American Chess
Journal," reviewed by Barry Spiro, Atlantic Chess News, May-June
1993.
Best Analysis: (tie) "Fischer-Keres, Bled 1961," by SM
Jonathan Yedidia, American Chess Journal, Issue #1; and "Anand
Upsets Ivanchuk in Linares Match: Inside the Winner's Training
Camp," by GM Patrick Wolff, American Chess Journal, Issue #1;
honorable mentions: "Game 11, Fischer-Spassky," by GM Yasser
Seirawan, Inside Chess, October 26, 1992; and "The Lost Art of
Adjournment Analysis," by IM Michael Valvo, Atlantic Chess News,
November-December 1992.
Best Instruction: (tie) "The Color Rule," by NM Allan
Bennett, Chess Horizons, January/February 1993; and "The
Amateur's Mind," by IM Jeremy Silman, Chess Life, September 1992;
honorable mention: "Opening Forum," by GM Edmar Mednis, Chess
Life, February 1992.
Best Layout: Inside Chess, July 20, 1992; honorable mention:
American Chess Journal, Issue #1.
Best Cover: Inside Chess, October 12, 1992; honorable men-
tions: American Chess Journal, Issue #1; and Chess Life, February
1993.
Best Cartoon: Toles and UPS, "Bobby Fischer is Back,"
American Chess Journal, Issue #1; honorable mentions: unknown,
"Battle of the Titans," Inside Chess, December 7, 1992; Lawrence
Tisch, Empire Chess, Spring 1993; and Philip Dorsey, "John Madden
Explains how to Read your Mailing Label," The Center Files, April
1993.
Best Chess Art: American Chess Journal, Issue #1, by Jeff
Fassenden; honorable mention: Northwest Chess, September 1992
cover.
Best Chess Photograph: Nigel Eddis, "Garri Kasparov," Chess
Life, January 1993 cover; honorable mentions: World Wide Photo,
Inside Chess, November 23, 1992 cover; and Tim Hanke, "walled
city of Sveti Stefan, American Chess Journal, Issue #1, p. 77.
Chief Judge: CJA President Ira Lee Riddle, Jerome Bibuld,
Alex Dunne, Peter Kurzdorfer, and help from Robert Leonards.
Christopher F. Chabris
>Chess Journalists of America
>1993 Awards list
>(Announced August 12th during the U.S. Open in Philadelphia, PA)
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>Best Editorial: "A Dream on the Edge of a Nightmare," by
>Warren Pinches, American Chess Journal, Issue #1
CORRECTION -- this article appeared not in American Chess Journal, but
in Chess Horizons, September-October 1992, pp. 5-6.
(I should point out that this error was in the original CJA information
sheets, and was not the fault of Mr. Nolan.)
-Chris