Frank K. Berry

He was a performing member at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles and Arbiter at the GM Eduard Gufeld Chess Club in Hollywood when he lived in California from 1977 to 2002.

Junior Invitational Championship, two U.S. Championships, the Dream Team Challenge (supporting the women's 36th Chess Olympiad team), several international norm events, and even an eight-game match between Grandmasters Yury Shulman and Aleksander Wojtkiewicz in 2005.

He compiled a history of Oklahoma chess, which included a list of state champions going back more than 100 years.

[5] He also hunted for regional chess games in newspapers and magazines dating back over 100 years and preserved them in a ChessBase database.

It includes little-known games by Samuel Reshevsky, Reuben Fine, Herman Steiner, Israel Albert Horowitz, and even the young Bobby Fischer (who played in the 1956 U.S. Open Chess Championship in Oklahoma City).

"[5] Berry was also a competitive chess player for over 50 years, with a "Class A" rating, and played more than 1,600 USCF-rated games.

"[6] Berry was noted for a droll sense of humor, such as saying at the start of each tournament, "Remember, not all trappers wear fur hats!