Judge Leighton profiled in this month's Chess Life

Check out Tim Redman's profile (subscribers only).

Judge Leighton was profiled on this blog last year. He beat me twenty years or so ago at the National Open in Chicago. I seem to have conveniently misplaced the scoresheet.

Chicago connections - Tim Redman

The Filipino IM Julio Catalino Sadorra, who plays for the University of Texas at Dallas, just earned his third GM norm in a grandmasters-vs.-UTD students "Scheveningen style" event.

So what's the Chicago connection, and why am I linking to an article in a Manila business paper?  The answer: Tim Redman.

Richard Verber remembered

It's hard for me to believe that Richard Verber has been gone for almost nine years.

Tim Redman's memorial originally appeared in the Illinois Chess Bulletin.  (PDF document.)  Hat tip to former ICB editor Colley Kitson.