Emory Andrew Tate Jr., a grandmaster in chess, was American. In Chicago, where Tate was born, his father Emory Andrew Tate Sr. was a well-known attorney. When he was young, he began to play chess.
While he was a staff sergeant in the US Air Force, his fluency in languages was quite helpful. He learned Russian from the military, his son commented. He chose both German and Spanish by accident.
He has three children with his wife. His oldest child, Emory Andrew Tate III, is a well-known kickboxer. His daughter, Janine Tate Webb, is a lawyer in the US. On October 17, 2015, Tate passed tragically after collapsing abruptly during a competition in Milpitas, California.
As a part of a community school board program, Tate taught chess to pupils in Goshen’s primary schools in 1993.
Tate’s highest FIDE rating was 2413 as of the October 2006 rating list, placing him in the top 2000 active players worldwide and at position 72 in the United States. On December 30, 1996, he reached his highest USCF rating of 2508.
After achieving his third standard at the World Open in 2006, he was awarded the international master title in 2007.
On the American chess circuit, where he defeated grandmasters in around 80 competitive games, Tate developed a reputation as a clever and perilous tactical. Tate claimed five victories in the United States Armed Forces Chess Championship.
Inducted into the Indiana State Chess Hall of Fame in 2005, he won the state championship six times (1995, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2006, and 2007). In 2010, he also won the state championship for Alabama.
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