Rob Roy is a life member of the U.S. Chess Federation, and a senior level tournament director certified by the USCF. Rob wrote a weekly newspaper column on chess for the Waterbury Sunday Republican for 25 years.

Rob was elected president of the Connecticut State Chess Association, organizing more than 300 chess tournaments at many locations across Connecticut, ten annual state championships, and some national events.

Rob was elected president of the New England Chess Association, Regional Vice-President of the U.S. Chess Federation, and International Tournament Coordinator for Chess Café’s “Tournament World”.

Rob won recognition for his efforts at bringing chess into the public eye and mainstream society. Rob won a national contest for membership recruitment. Rob was editor-publisher of “Connecticut Chess Magazine”.

Rob was assistant editor of “Chess Horizons” magazine and wrote many articles. Rob developed and served as statistician for a statewide rating system for “Connecticut Speed-Chess”.

Rob is a Microsoft Certified Professional and a computer programmer. Rob set up and operated his own computer bulletin board system where chess players all over the world connected via telephone line/modem to play chess with others, send/receive messages, and to download chess programs and data.

Rob was one of the first chess instructors to teach chess in the public schools. Rob has taught chess as part of programs associated with town recreation depts, public libraries, rehabilitation centers, adult education programs, fraternal organizations, schools, colleges and universities.

Many of the things Rob has done for chess he has also done for backgammon. (i.e. Connecticut Backgammon Society & Magazine).

Rob is a collector of chess clocks, chess sets and chess books, backgammon boards and backgammon books, and sets and books for many other board games, table games, dice games, and card games.

Rob has been called “The King of Clubs”, as his last name is equivalent to “Roi”, the French word for King, and in recognition for his service to chess clubs, backgammon clubs, and computer clubs.

Rob Roy managed the “Greater Waterbury Computer Users Group”, produced a Cable TV program “Technology Update”, and volunteered for organizations dedicated to providing personal computers and peripheral devices to people with disabilities.

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Rob Roy founded the Connecticut Backgammon Society in 1979 and organized 300+ backgammon tournaments at 20+ different locations across Connecticut. At its peak there were more than 800 members.  At the current time there are no backgammon clubs in Connecticut, but Rob may soon be putting back together again the Connecticut Backgammon Society.

Please send Rob your email address to be notified of the first backgammon tournament. Send email to RobRoy810@gmail.com. Rob is on AOL-Netscape’s Instant Messenger with the buddy name of “ConnChess” and is on ICQ as “1215535”.

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