Jon Edwards

Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. He is a four time winner of the APCT (American Postal Chess Tournaments) Championship and a two time winner of the APCT Game of the Year Award. He received his correspondence International Master (IM) in 1997, his Senior International Master (SIM) in 1999. He has competed on the United States Correspondence Chess Olympiad team, reaching the final round. His correspondence ICCF rating of 2580 places him in the top 200 correspondence chess players worldwide.

He has written more than 20 chess books, notably including The Chess Analyst (Thinkers Press, 1999) which chronicles the success in the US championship, Teach Yourself Visually: Chess (Wiley, 2006), a photographically based chess primer, Sacking the Citadel: The History, Theory, and Practice of the Classic Bishop Sacrifice (Russell Enterprises, 2011), and ChessBase Complete: Chess in the Digital Age (Russell Enterprises, 2014). He is also web master of Chess is Fun [www.queensac.com], a popular chess instruction web site that receives more than 100,000 hits a week.

Jon writes a regular column, You Can Do It, for Chess Life for Kids.

Most recently, Jon has started a new series of instructional chess books, Chess is Fun, right here on Amazon. He also has a two volume series on Mastering Mate, 1111 Mates in One Move, and 1111 Mates in 2, 3, and 4 Moves.

Jon provides private chess instruction in the Princeton, NJ area. He has taught chess to more than 2,000 students over 30 years.