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Dr Eric Schiller (born March 20, 1955 in New York) is an American chess player, trainer, arbiter and author. Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. Schiller has a Ph.D. and is a published author in linguistics, specializing in Cambodian languages. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields [1]

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Chess career

Eric Schiller represented the University of Chicago several times in the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Championships. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. He was awarded the title of Fide Master shortly after reaching a rating of 2300 points. A title is a prefix or suffix added to a person's name to signify either veneration an official position or a professional or academic qualification FIDE Master (FM is a title awarded by the world Chess governing body Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. Since then, he has fallen down the charts and according to the July 2007 FIDE list he has an Elo rating of 2174. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as Chess and Go. [2] He is also an International Arbiter[3] and was the arbiter of a chess match between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. In Chess, International Arbiter is a title awarded by FIDE to individuals deemed capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches (the arbiters are responsible Garry Kasparov (Га́рри Ки́мович Каспа́ров) (born as Garry Kimovich Weinstein on April 13 1963 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian Chess grandmaster 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

Schiller has organized many chess tournaments, including the World Youth Championship in Chicago, and several international tournaments in Hawaii. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the He has often been a news reporter, reporting on Olympiads and World Chess Championship matches. Dr Schiller was the arbiter for the third Staunton Memorial tournament London 2005, missed 2006 because of ill health, but was again arbiter for 2007[4]. Dr Schiller has also arbited at the Gibtelecom tournament in Gibraltar[5].

Chess author

Schiller is noted as a prolific author of chess books, having written over 100, more than anyone else except Fred Reinfeld, Raymond Keene, and the late Eduard Gufeld. Fred Reinfeld ( January 27, 1910 &ndash May 29, 1964) was an American Chess player and a prolific writer Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (born 29 January 1948) is a Chess grandmaster, but is better known as a chess organiser columnist and author Eduard Yefimovich Gufeld ( March 19, 1936, Kiev, Soviet Union – September 23, 2002) was a Ukrainian However, some of the books have received scathing reviews: Reviewing for the Chess Cafe, Carsten Hansen said Schiller's tome on the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation of the Vienna Game was "by far THE WORST BOOK I HAVE EVER SEEN" [1], while Tony Miles' famous review of Unorthodox Chess Openings for Kingpin consisted of two words: "Utter crap. ChessCafecom is a website that publishes Endgame studies, Book reviews and other articles related to Chess on a weekly basis The Frankenstein-Dracula Variation is a Chess opening. Usually considered a branch of the Vienna Game, it can also be reached from the Bishop's Opening. The Vienna Game is a Chess opening characterised by the moves 1 Anthony John Miles ( 23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, Birmingham &ndash 12 November 2001 in Harborne, Birmingham " Noted chess historian Edward Winter criticized Schiller's books for large numbers of spelling, factual and typographical errors. Edward Winter is a British Journalist, Archivist, Historian, Collector and Author about the game of Chess. [2] Others, however, have found some of Schiller's output to be well suited to its amateur audience. John L. Watson said of Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings and Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings that "these books are explicitly aimed at the developing student, not the advanced player, and I think they both do a particularly good job of gently guiding an inexperienced player through a new opening. John L Watson is a Chess International Master and author Watson was born in 1951 and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and was educated . . . While Schiller probably deserves some of the criticism he gets, a consequence of writing too many books too quickly, he should also get credit when he does a good job. "[3]

Linguistics career

Schiller has been heavily involved in the study of linguistics since 1982, when he returned to the University of Chicago. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. His dissertation on serial verbs, An Autolexical Account of Subordinating Serial Verb Constructions, earned him a Ph. D. in 1991. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Wayne State University. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center.

His primary research focus has been Autolexical Linguistics, a framework for the description and explanation of natural language developed at the University of Chicago. In the Philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a Language that is spoken or written in phonemic-alphabetic or phonemically-related The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Autolexical linguistics is a descendant of the Lexical functional grammar theory of Bresnan et al. His language concentration is in Southeast Asian languages, and in particular the Mon-Khmer Family including Khmer (Cambodian). The Mon-Khmer languages are the autochthonous Language family of Southeast Asia. Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ or Cambodian, is the language of the Khmer people and the official language of Cambodia. In addition, he has a strong interest in pidgins and creole languages, especially the Hawaiian Pidgin. A pidgin is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common in situations such as Trade A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable Language that originates seemingly as a nativized Pidgin. Hawaii Pidgin English, Hawaii Creole English, HCE, or simply Pidgin, is a Creole language based in part on English

In 1992 he became involved with computational linguistics, and worked at the Center for Information and Language Studies at the University of Chicago, under a DARPA grant, helping to build a parser based on autolexical theory. Computational linguistics is an Interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical and/or rule-based modeling of Natural language from a computational The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. In Computer science and Linguistics, parsing, or more formally syntactic analysis, is the process of analyzing a sequence of tokens to Prior to his work at the University of Chicago, he attended the Southeast Asian Summer Studies Institute on FLAS fellowships in 1987 (Northern Illinois University), 1988 and 1989 (University of Hawaii). Northern Illinois University (NIU is a Public university located in DeKalb Illinois. The University of Hawaii, formally the University of Hawaii System and popularly known as UH, is a public co-educational college and university system that confers

In 1990 he founded the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (with Martha Ratliff at Wayne State University). Wayne State University is located in Detroit, Michigan, in the city's Midtown Cultural Center. He has also been an officer of the Chicago Linguistics Society (1987). Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar)

Although he is no longer actively involved in academia, Schiller continues to lecture at many conferences and is developing language and linguistic software through Linguistics Unlimited. He can often be found at the conferences of the Berkeley Linguistic Society (February), Chicago Linguistic Society (April). and Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

Books

Among Schiller's many books on chess are the following:

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics, Oxford: Pergamon, entries on Khmer, Mon-Khmer and Austric
  2. ^ Chess Player card. Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (born 29 January 1948) is a Chess grandmaster, but is better known as a chess organiser columnist and author Rating cards. FIDE. Retrieved on 2007-06-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes.
  3. ^ Eric Schiller's FIDE card. FIDE cards. Retrieved on 2007-06-11. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes.
  4. ^ Schiller's daily news reports posted at Chessgames.com's Gibtelecom 2006 Tournament Page
  5. ^ Schiller's daily news reports posted at Chessgames.com's Gibtelecom 2006 Tournament Page

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