Managing Director Al Lawrence
- Managing Director, US Chess Trust
- Former Executive Director of U.S. Chess Federation
- Former Executive Director of U.S. and World Chess Hall of Fame
- Former Chair of USCF College Chess Committee
- Director of Championship Texas Tech Chess Program—2012-2015
- Former Chess Life and current Chess Life Kids columnist and feature writer
- Former President of Chess Journalists of America
- Winner of multiple CJA awards, including Journalist of the Year (three times), Best Book, and Best Story
- Author or co-author of a dozen popular books on chess, including the most recently published:
Chess for the Gifted and Busy
Chess Player’s Bible
Chess for Everyone
Chess and the Art of War
- Organizer of two Final Four Collegiate Championships and the 2013 PanAms Championships
- World Book Yearbook contributor on chess for more than 20 years
- Helped with organization of the World Chess Championships of 1990 and 1995, the first in US in many years
- First Scholastic Director of the U.S. Chess Federation
- Former Assistant and Associate Director of U.S. Chess Federation
- Former Managing Editor of Chess Life Magazine
- Organizer, National Chess League “Lincoln Logs”—c. 1979
- Member of Lincoln Chess Association board
- City Champion, Lincoln, Nebraska—1979
- Charter board member of reconstituted Missouri Chess Association, co-author of its Bylaws-c. 1970
- Sponsor of high school chess club
Other career paths mentioned in brief bio available online at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Lawrence_(chess_writer)