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The connection with Andrew Tate is known, but maybe not widely.
I learned of it from this article:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... c-man.html
Careful attention is needed here, as there are three generations of this family, with the senior male line all called "Emory Andrew Tate", so we have Emory Andrew Tate, Emory Andrew Tate II and Emory Andrew Tate III.What turned the son of a chess champion and a Luton dinner lady into the world's most toxic man? [...] Andrew Tate's surprising background
The one recently arrested in Romania is Emory Andrew Tate III, commonly known as Andrew Tate.
More details later in the article about the father (Emory Andrew Tate II, also known as Emory Andrew Tate, Junior):Amid the fripperies on show at Andrew Tate's palatial Romanian mountainside villa, a humble chess board is a stark reminder of the past he has left behind.
By his own admission, the carved set is a nod to the toxic influencer's late father, an International Chess Master and former U.S. Air Force sergeant who died in 2015.
A cousin is quoted as saying:A talented linguist, he learnt Russian for intelligence purposes. He was also U.S. Armed Forces chess champion five times in the 1980s, a record which has still never been beaten.
By the mid 1990s, Emory Tate's name was known throughout the global chess community.
But while he taught his children the game — Andrew Tate himself has said that he became a chess champion aged five, after beating a 15-year-old in an under-16 competition in the U.S. state of Indiana — he was frequently absent from home, playing hundreds of games in the US and Europe.
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They remained in close contact with their father, right up until his death in the middle of a game at a tournament near San Jose in California in October 2015.
More background here:'Their dad was a totally separate person. He had a wife and kids, he had a military career and he had chess. That was his life.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emory_Tate
The Wikipedia article does a good job of giving the details and life story of Emory Tate. Would be nice to see a couple of his best games posted here at some point.
