Lawrence "Larry" Parr (May 21, 1946 – April 2, 2011) was a
chess
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player, author and editor.
Born in 1946 and originally from
Bothell, Washington, Parr served from 1985 to 1988 as editor of ''
Chess Life
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'' magazine,
the official publication of the
United States Chess Federation
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. Later, Parr was the editor of ''
Glasnost
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'' magazine,
an anti-
Soviet
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periodical. Politically, Parr, known to be a passionate
anti-communist
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ideologue, classified himself as a
libertarian
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.
He was a close friend of
Grandmaster Larry Evans and they often collaborated on projects. Parr played relatively little tournament chess, preferring instead to write books about the subject. In 1995, he collaborated with GM
Arnold Denker
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in writing ''The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories''.
Parr died in 2011 in Malaysia.
Books
* ''The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories''.
* ''Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters: Fundamentals of the Game, Volume 1''.
* ''Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters: Fundamentals of the Game, Volume 2''.
* ''Viktors Pupols: American Master''.
* ''Tan Chin Nam: Never Say I Assume!'' (
ghostwriter
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for
Tan Chin Nam
Dato' Tan Chin Nam (; 18 March 1926 – 21 October 2018) was a Malaysian entrepreneur and developer. His family is the majority shareholder of IGB Corporation Berhad.
Tan was reportedly one of the richest men in Malaysia and had several compan ...
's autobiography).
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1946 births
2011 deaths
American chess players
American chess writers
American male non-fiction writers
American libertarians