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Chauvenet, a dedicated Chess player, reached the level of Expert , a rating better than nine out of 10 chess players involved in tournament play. He was the U.S. Amateur Champion in 1959 , and received the Fédération Internationale Des Échecs (World Chess Federation) International Master title in the 1990s . He also wrote columns for '' Chess Life ''. In 1991, Chauvenet won the fourth National Deaf Championship, in Austin, Texas . In 1992 , at Edinburgh , Scotland , the International Committee of Silent Chess awarded him its Grandmaster title. He also won three National Tournaments of the Deaf, at Chicago in 1980 , Washington, D.C. in 1983 and Rochester in 1987 . Chauvenet was also an enthusiastic Sailor who built his own Windmill class Sailboat and participated in Regatta s. He become completely Deaf in 1930 at age 10, after suffering cerebro-spinal Meningitis . He attended Central Institute for the Deaf and Wright Oral School, and went on to Harvard , Boston College and the University Of Virginia , receiving a Bachelor Of Science in Biology and a Master Of Science in Chemistry from Virginia. Professionally, Chauvenet worked with Computer s as a civilian employee of the U.S. Department Of Defense from 1948 until his retirement. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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