Ron Henley (chess player)

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Ron Henley
Full nameRonald Watson Henley
Country United States
Born (1956-12-05) December 5, 1956 (age 68)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Title Grandmaster (1982)
FIDE   rating 2414 (January 2025)
Peak rating 2505 (January 1985)
Peak rankingNo. 48 (July 1983)

Ronald Watson Henley (born December 5, 1956, in Houston, Texas) is an American chess grandmaster, [1] writer, narrator and producer of chess videos, [2] as well as financial funding trader. For highschool, he went to Lamar High in Arlington Texas. He now works at Miami Country Day School and manages a chess club there.

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Chess career

Henley was awarded the International Master title in 1980, and the Grandmaster title in 1982. Henley appeared on the cover of Chess Life in 1982, representing the United States. [3] He earned the GM title while finishing equal first with Walter Browne in a 26-player round-robin tournament in Surakarta/Denpasar, Indonesia, [4] defeating Grandmaster Tony Miles in the last round. [5]

Henley was appointed by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov as President of the World Chess Champions Council Inc, a New York nonprofit organization that promotes chess in schools. [6]

Champion chess trainer

Henley has been a second, analyst and trainer for former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov in several matches in the 1990s. [7] [8]

Henley has served as a chess trainer and promoter of leading young women chess players, including Three Time US Women's Chess Champion Irina Krush. [6]

Ronald Henley, now inactive in competitive chess, tutors individuals.

Chess publishing

Online chess videos

In 2012, Henley was invited to join National Master William Stewart for the educational website called 'OnlineChessLessons'. Henley provides skills as a chess analyst to an international audience. [9] During COVID-19, Henley produced many videos and streams under the name 'HenChess'. He collaborated with many chess players such as Karpov to produce chess content.

Chess DVDs

Henley narrated the double-volume chess video, "American Chess Princesses". [2] In this video, Irina Krush, Elina Groberman, Laura Ross and Shirley Ben-Dak present some of their best games from the 1997 FIDE World Youth Chess Championships held in Cannes, France. [10] In the late 1990s, Henley founded the site www.ChessSuperstore.com, which sponsored Irina Krush and Hikaru Nakamura.

Chess books

Financial career

As President of RWH Advisors, Henley acts as Special Consultant to Ultra High Net Worth Individuals and Family Offices. [11]

From 1985 through 2001, Henley was an American Stock Exchange Member, as a trader, market maker and specialist. [12] Henley traded extensively in Phillip Morris, Wells Fargo and Teva Pharmaceuticals.

From 2001 to 2005, Henley was a founding partner and Head Trader of a statistical arbitrage family of hedge funds, with clients such as Bank of America, Gottex Fund of Funds and Aegon USA Insurance Company.[ citation needed ]

Henley is an International Registered Financial Consultant, and went into business consulting where he joined the Board of Directors of several private companies including Quantum Genomics.[ citation needed ] Henley is currently a member of the financial trading industry. [12]

Henley has made presentations at several conferences in the financial industry, including

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References

  1. ↑ Ron Henley player profile and games at Chessgames.com
  2. 1 2 American Chess Princesses! on DVD Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Ron Henley rating card at FIDE
  4. ↑ Surakarta/Denpasar, 1982
  5. ↑ 365Chess.com Tournament Results
  6. 1 2 Grandmaster Ron W Henley
  7. ↑ Elista Diaries, by Anatoly Karpov & Ron Henley
  8. ↑ www.anusha.com Book Review
  9. ↑ Ron Henley Joins ChessLessons.net
  10. ↑ Win Like Kasparov Biography Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ 2013 RWH Advisors Company Info
  12. 1 2 Mass Mutual Financial Group Archived 2014-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
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