Eric Schiller update

Our friend in the Bay Area recently lost a leg to complicatons from diabetes.  Now he's lost an arm as well, and looking at an arduous recovery.

Please send Eric your best wishes!  You can friend him on Facebook here.

Best wishes to Eric Schiller

For many years, our friend Eric Schiller was one of Chicago's strongest masters and instructors; he now lives in Moss Beach, California.

1986 World Championship

Foreground left: PM Margaret Thatcher; Kasparov (head turned), Schiller (beard), Karpov

Eric organized the 1983 World Youth Team Championship at the University of Chicago, he's the author of more than one hundred (!) chess books, he was lord of the press room for two of the five Karpov-Kasparov matches, he was the chief arbiter for the Kasparov-Kramnik match, he edited the Illinois Chess Bulletin in the late 1980s, and (not least) he's the chess champion of Daily Kos.  En passant, Eric also holds a Ph.D. in linguistics and is a Phish groupie.

Michael Aigner informs us that Eric is in a San Mateo hospital recovering from a serious infection that led to the amputation of one foot.  

Eric, all of your Chicago Schachfreunde wish you a speedy recovery!