He was an organizer of the Hawaii International chess festivals 1994–98, including 1998 US Open California Champion 1995.
While Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov opted not to participate in the event, they had both endorsed Schiller for this sensitive role during the planning stages.
Schiller was the arbiter for the Staunton Memorial tournament in London in 2005, 2007 and 2008,[2] and the 2006 Gibtelecom International Chess Festival in Gibraltar.
[3] Schiller wrote over 100 chess books, more than any other author of the genre in the 20th century except Fred Reinfeld and Raymond Keene.
While Schiller probably deserves some of the criticism he gets, a consequence of writing too many books too quickly, he should also get credit when he does a good job.
Chess historian Edward Winter has criticized many of Schiller's earlier books for large numbers of spelling, factual and typographical errors,[9][10][11] and even claimed plagiarism.
[12] Schiller's Unorthodox Chess Openings received a noted two-word review from Tony Miles in Kingpin: "Utter crap.
"[15] Schiller's PhD thesis was entitled "An autolexical account of subordinating serial verb phrase constructions".