1999 Award Winners
Congratulations to this year’s CJA Award Winners!
Each year the Chess Journalists of America judge chess material published during the previous year and submitted to them for competition. Following the judging, awards are made in various categories. Here is a list of the awards presented in this year’s competition. The awards were first announced at the US Open Championship in August 2000.
Following is a list of categories, the winners and honorable mentions, and a list of the CJA members who judged that particular category (in parentheses). Only material originally published during the period July 1998 through June 1999 was eligible for this competition.
Helen Warren, Chief Judge
Best State Magazine (Open) (Hanken, Hough, Lawrence)
| 1st | Illinois Chess Bulletin, M. L. Rantala, Editor |
Best State Magazine, Under 1000 circulation (Hanken, Hough, Lawrence)
| 1st | Illinois Chess Bulletin, M. L. Rantala, Editor |
| HM | Illinois Chess Bulletin, Josh Flores, Editor |
Best Club Bulletin (Hough, Lieberman, Smythe)
| 1st | Jacksonville Chess News, Darren Dillinger, Editor |
| HM | En Passant, Pittsburgh Chess Club, Bob Dudley, Editor |
Best Postal Magazine (Hillery, Hough, Lieberman)
| 1st | APCT News Bulletin, Helen Warren, Editor |
| HM | The Chess Correspondent, Joe Ganem, Editor |
Best Independent Serial Publication (Hanken, Hough, H. Warren)
| 1st | Articles posted online, John Coffey |
Most Improved Magazine (Hanken, Hough, Tamburro)
| 1st | Georgia Chess, Daniel Lucas, Editor |
Best Cover (Alexis, Lawrence, H. Warren)
| 1st | School Mates Sept-Oct. 1998, Patrick Kelley |
| HM | Chess Life March 1999, Jon F. Buckley |
Best Layout (Alexis, Lawrence, J. Warren)
| 1st | Illinois Chess Bulletin 6/98, M. L. Rantala, Editor |
| HM | School Mates March-April 1999, Patrick Kelley |
Best Regular Magazine Column (Anderson, Donaldson, Hough)
| 1st | “Game of the Month”, Michael Rohde, Chess Life 3-5/99 |
| HM | “Chess to Enjoy”, Andrew Soltis, Chess Life 7-9/98 |
Best Magazine Tournament Report (Lieberman, Tomas)
| 1st | 1998 Chicago Open, Illinois Chess Bulletin, July-August 1998, Rantala et al. |
| HM | Golden is Golden at World Open, Chess Life, Sept-Oct 1998, Jerry Hanken et al. |
Best Regular Newspaper Column (Hillery, Hough, Lieberman)
| 1st | Washington Times, David Sands, entry #1 |
| HM | Washington Post, GM Lubomir Kavalek |
Newspaper Column of Local Interest (Hillery, Hough, Lieberman)
| 1st | Maine Sunday Telegram, Larry Eldridge |
| HM | “Chess, A Knight’s Tour”, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Times, Bill Cornwall |
Best Newspaper Tournament Report (Hillery, Hough)
| 1st | “Mayer Tops Field”, Washington Times, David Sands |
Best Chess Promotion (Hough, Lieberman, Tamburro)
| 1st | Illinois Chess Association – Warren Junior Program, Illinois Chess Bulletin, M. L. Rantala, editor and Mike Marsh |
Best Human Interest (Lawrence, Lieberman, H. Warren)
| 1st | 1999 Amateur Team East, Larry Eldridge, Chess Horizons Jan-May 1999 |
| HM | “Maurice Ashley”, Brian Killigrew, Chess Life May 1999 |
Best Historical Article (Anderson, Donaldson, H. Warren)
| 1st | “Jacob Yuchtman, The Forbidden Artist” by Leonid Shamkovich and Michael Khodarkovsky, Chess Life Dec 1998 |
| HM | “Duchamp Dada: A Reappraisal”, Allan Savage, Kingpin Sept 1998 |
| HM | “Weaver Adams”, Eric Johnson, Chess Pride #2, Eric Johnson |
Best Interview (Hanken, Hough, H. Warren)
| 1st | Larry Christiansen, Chess Horizons July-Aug 1998, Peter Sherwood |
| HM | Profiles in Chess: Ashley, Chess Life May 1999, Brian Killigrew |
Best Editorial (Hanken, Tamburro, H. Warren)
| HM | “What Next”, Darren Dillinger, online |
Best Humorous Contribution (Hanken, Lieberman, Smyth)
| HM | “Mate the Beatles”, Bob Basalla, Ohio Chess Bulletin |
Best Review (Anderson, Tamburro, J. Warren)
| 1st | “Reflections on the Dvorestsky Project”, John Watson, Illinois Chess Bulletin Sept 1998 |
| HM | Jon Speelman’s Best Games, John Tomas, Illinois Chess Bulletin March-April 1999 |
Best Analysis – Opening (Donaldson, Shibut, Tomas)
| 1st | “Riddles of the Gruenfeld Defense”, Leonid Shamkovich, Chess Life June 1999 |
Best Analysis – Endings (Donaldson, Hillery, Shibut)
| 1st | “In the End”, Steve Szpisjak and John Tomas, Illinois Chess Bulletin July-Aug 1998 |
Best Analysis – Other (Donaldson, Shibut, Tomas)
| 1st | “Henley! Henley!”, Paul Hodges and Walter Browne, Atlantic Chess News May-June 1998 |
| HM | “An Amazing Discovery”, Michael Rohde, Chess Life Dec 1998 |
Best Instruction (Anderson, Lawrence, J. Warren)
| 1st | “Evaluation of Material Imbalances”, Larry Kaufman, Chess Life March 1999 |
| HM | “For Mails Only”, Pete Tamburro, Atlantic Chess News July 1998 |
| HM | “A. J. Goldsby Anotates”, Georgia Chess |
Best Art (Alexis, Hough, Lawrence)
| 1st | Cover of School Mates Sept-Oct 1998, Patrick Kelley |
| HM | Cover of Chess Life March 1999, Jon F. Buckley |
Best Cartoon (Alexis, Hough, Warren)
| HM | “Trappy Line”, Darren Dillinger, Jax Chess News |
Best Photograph (Lawrence, Smythe, West)
| 1st | “Chess for Dessert”, Ken Thomas, Atlantic Chess News May-June 1999 |
| HM | “You Are What You Read”, Illinois Chess Bulletin, M. L. Rantala |
| HM | “Smothered Mate”, Rank & File May-June 1999, Chris Roberts |
| HM | “M. Dandridge Showed Some Muscle”, Illinois Chess Bulletin Sept-Oct 1998, Jerome Bibuld |