Jeremy Silman

Jeremy Silman, Seattle 2002
Association	United States
Born	August 28, 1954 Del Rio
title	International champion (1988)
Current  Elo rating	2383 (August 2018)
Best Elo rating	2420 (January to July 1995)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jeremy Silman (born  August 28, 1954 in Del Rio , Texas ) is an American chess player , teacher and writer. He holds the title of International Master and has won the three most traditional open chess tournaments in the United States , including the US Open , the National Open and the American Open . In addition, he has more than 35 chess books so farpublished, most of which are aimed at amateur players. Due to his work, he is considered one of the leading chess authors of the present and has received awards as “Chess Book of the Year” for several of his works.

Career as a player

Jeremy Silman started playing chess at the age of 12. In 1988 he was awarded the title of International Master by the World Chess Federation FIDE . He also holds the Original Life Master title awarded by the United States Chess Federation . Among other things, he won the US Open in Palo Alto in 1981 together with four other players and shared first place with six other players at the National Open in Las Vegas in 1990 and at the American Open in Santa Monica in 1992 together with four other players .

He was also State Champion of California in 1982 and State Champion of Washington in 1985, as well as City Champion of San Francisco in 1974 and Champion of the Southern California Chess Federation in 1987 . In 1975, 1976 and 1979 he took part in the Louis D. Statham Masters in Lone Pine , which was one of the most important and busiest round robin tournaments in the United States in the 1970s . With four wins and three defeats in seven rounds and 21st place out of 57 participants, he achieved his best result in 1976.

His highest Elo rating of 2420 reached Jeremy Silman in January 1995. He is guided in the FIDE as inactive because he has not played a game more Counting in 1999.

Act as an author

Since retiring from active competitive chess in 1999, Jeremy Silman has primarily worked as a writer and chess teacher. He has published more than 35 chess books so far , of which the most successful have already appeared in several new editions as well as in translated editions. His co-authors included Larry Christiansen , John Donaldson , Larry Evans , John Grefe and Yasser Seirawan . His work includes, among other books on various chess openings , for chess strategy and positional play, in cooperation with Yasser Seirawan a book on chess tactics and with "Silmans final course" a book about finals , which unlike most publications on this subject by ascending skill level divided is.

For the positional evaluation of a position, Jeremy Silman conveys a system that he describes as "disturbances of the equilibrium" or "imbalances". This is based on a comparative analysis of the relative strength of the minor pieces , the pawn structure , the space advantages , the material distribution , the control of open lines, diagonals and individual fields, the development , the initiative and the king's security of both players. According to this concept, the aim of a player should be to recognize static and dynamic imbalances in these factors and to align his game with them. So a player should strive to eliminate adverse imbalances and to use positive imbalances in their favor.

In addition to the book “Schach, aberreal!”, He has dedicated his main work to the elaboration and presentation of this concept, “How to Reassess your Chess”, which has been published in four English editions since 1993. In addition to the original English edition, German (“Schach mit neuem Schwung”) and Italian (“Teoria e pratica degli squilibri”) versions of this book have also been published. The German translation was brought together by the New in Chess publishing house along with “Schach, aberrechte!” And “Silmans Endspielkurs” in a series under the title “Silmans Schachschule”. Characteristic of his works, most of which are aimed at amateur players, is a relaxed and sometimes humorous style of language.

In addition to his chess books, Jeremy Silman published a novel in 2013 entitled "Autobiography of a Goat".

Awards

The awards that Jeremy Silman received for his books included, among others, the selection as “Book of the Year” by the website ChessCafe.com , by English Chess, in 2004 for “Pal Benko: My Life, Games, and Compositions” Federation and by the Chess Journalists of America association together with the Fred Cramer Awards Committee , in 2007 for "Silman's Complete Endgame Course" as "Book of the Year" by the website ChessCafe.com and in 2011 for the fourth edition of "How to Reassess your Chess" was selected as "Chess Book of the Year" by the British daily The Guardian .

Works (selection)

• Winning with the Sicilian Defense: A Complete Repertoire Against 1 e4. Dallas 1991 (German edition: Winning with the Sicilian Defense. With the accelerated Fianchetto against e4. Hamburg 1992)
• Winning with the Caro-Kann Defense. Dallas 1993
• The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z. Los Angeles 1998 (German edition: Chess from A - Z: Everything about openings, tactics, strategy and endgames. Alkmaar 2014)
• The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery. Second edition. Los Angeles 1999 (German edition: Chess, but correct! Overcoming amateur thinking. Alkmaar 2008)
• Pal Benko: My Life, Games, and Compositions. Los Angeles 2003 (together with Pál Benkő )
• Winning Chess Tactics. London 2005 (with Yasser Seirawan )
• Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner To Master. Los Angeles 2007 (German edition: Silman's Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master. Alkmaar 2008)
• How to Reassess your Chess: Chess Mastery through Chess Imbalances. Fourth edition. Los Angeles 2010 (German edition: Chess with a new swing: Play better by understanding imbalances. Alkmaar 2012)
• Autobiography of a Goat. Los Angeles 2013

Web links

• Jeremy Silman International Master Personal Website
• Replayable chess games by Jeremy Silman on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeremy Silman. Biographical information in: Larry Evans, Jeremy Silman, Betty Roberts: How to Get Better at Chess: Chess Masters on Their Art. Summit Publishing, Los Angeles 1991, ISBN 0-945806-05-1 , p. 235.
2. ↑ Our Heritage. 2012 US Chess Federation Yearbook. In: Chess Life. April 2013 edition. United States Chess Federation, p. 8, ISSN  0197-260X .
3. ↑ Our Heritage. 2012 US Chess Federation Yearbook. In: Chess Life. April 2013 edition. United States Chess Federation, p. 7, ISSN  0197-260X .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Our Heritage. 2012 US Chess Federation Yearbook. In: Chess Life. April 2013 edition. United States Chess Federation, p. 1, ISSN  0197-260X .
5. ↑ Our Heritage. 2012 US Chess Federation Yearbook. In: Chess Life. April 2013 edition. United States Chess Federation, p. 6, ISSN  0197-260X .
6. ↑ John Donaldson, Jeremy Silman: Semi-Slav Defense: Non-Meran Variations. Summit Publishing, Los Angeles 1988, ISBN 0-945806-00-0 , blurb .
7. ↑ Bill Wall: California Chess History (last accessed April 13, 2014)
8. ↑ Southern California Chess Federation State Champions (last accessed April 13, 2014)
9. ↑ chessgames.com historical chess event: Lone Pine (1975) (last accessed April 23, 2014)
10. ↑ chessgames.com historical chess event: Lone Pine (1976) (last accessed April 23, 2014)
11. ↑ chessgames.com historical chess event: Lone Pine (1979) (last accessed April 23, 2014)
12. ↑ Elo history at olimpbase.org (English)
13. ↑ ChessCafe.com Book of the Year ( Memento from February 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) via Internet Archive , accessed on March 25, 2015
14. ↑ The English Chess Federation - Book of the Year (last accessed April 20, 2018)
15. ↑ 2004 Chess Journalists of America / Fred Cramer Awards Committee for Excellence in Chess Journalism Joint Announcement ( Memento of May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (last accessed on April 13, 2014)
16. ↑ ChessCafe.com Book of the Year ( Memento of March 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) via Internet Archive
17. ↑ Ronan Bennett and Daniel King: And our chess book of the year is… In: The Guardian . Edition of November 21, 2011