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Line 1: {{Short description\|American chess player (1958–2015)}} {{Use mdy dates\|date=November 2024}} {{About\|the American chess player\|his son with the same name\|Andrew Tate}} {{Infobox chess biography \| name = Emory Tate Line 18 ⟶ 20: \| peakrating = 2413 (FIDE, October 2006) }} '''Emory Andrew Tate Jr.''' (December 27, 1958 – October 17, 2015) was an American [[chess]] player who held the title of [[International Master]]. ~~He was the father of the~~The Internet personality [[Andrew Tate]] is his son. ==Early life and education== Emory Andrew Tate Jr. was born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], on December 27, 1958.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Emory Tate {{!}} Top Chess Players \|url=https://www.chess.com/players/emory-tate \|access-date=2022-09-26 \|website=Chess.com \|language=en-US \|archive-date=2023-01-11 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111010617/https://www.chess.com/players/emory-tate \|url-status=live }}</ref> He grew up in a family of nine children. His father, Emory Andrew Tate I, was an attorney, and his mother, Emma Cox Tate, ran a truck-leasing business.{{Sfn\|Shabazz\|2017\|p=5–7}} Tate IIJr. learned to play chess as a child. He served in the [[United States Air Force]] as a sergeant, where he "excelled as a linguist. ~~He then was later discharged for developing a narcissistic personality disorder.~~ "<ref name="Lawrence">{{cite magazine \|last=Lawrence \|first=Al \|author-link=Al Lawrence (chess writer) \|date=January 2016 \|title="Unmatched Perspicacity" / IM Emory Tate, 1958-2015 \|url=http://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/CL-AND-CR-ALL/CL-ALL/2016/2016_01.pdf \|magazine=[[Chess Life]] \|pages=41–42 \|access-date=July 6, 2022 \|archive-date=July 7, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707011650/http://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/CL-AND-CR-ALL/CL-ALL/2016/2016_01.pdf \|url-status=live }}</ref> Tate learned Spanish through being an exchange student in Mexico. He was "chosen to participate in the [[Indiana University]] Honors Program in Foreign Language, Spanish Division during the summer of 1975" and spent two months living with a Mexican family.{{Sfn\|Shabazz\|2017\|p=8}} ==Chess== Line 28 ⟶ 30: Tate's highest [[FIDE]] rating was 2413 on the October 2006 rating list, which made him the 72nd highest-rated player in the United States and among the top 2000 active players in the world.<ref>{{cite web \|url=https://www.chess.com/games/search?fromSearchShort=1&p1=Emory%20Tate&playerId=31531&page=3/ \|title=Chess Games Database: IM Emory Tate \|website=Chess.com \|access-date=January 7, 2023 \|archive-date=January 7, 2023 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107233539/https://www.chess.com/games/search?fromSearchShort=1&p1=Emory%20Tate&playerId=31531&page=3/ \|url-status=live }}</ref> His peak [[United States Chess Federation\|USCF]] rating was 2508 on December 30, 1996. He received the [[FIDE titles#International Master (IM)\|International Master]] title in 2007,<ref>{{cite web \|last=Shabazz \|first=Daaim \|url=https://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2015/10/21/emory-tate-chess-savant-warrior-1958-2015/ \|title=Emory Tate: chess savant, warrior (1958-2015) \|website=The Chess Drum \|date=October 21, 2015 \|access-date=July 6, 2022 \|archive-date=July 5, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705002913/https://www.thechessdrum.net/blog/2015/10/21/emory-tate-chess-savant-warrior-1958-2015/ \|url-status=live }}</ref> after earning his third [[Norm (chess)\|norm]] at the 2006 [[World Open chess tournament\|World Open]].<ref>{{cite web \|last=Shabazz \|first=Daaim \|url=https://www.thechessdrum.net/newsbriefs/2006/NB_EmoryTate.html \|title=2006 World Open: Emory Tate gets 3rd IM Norm! \|website=The Chess Drum \|date=July 5, 2006 \|access-date=July 6, 2022 \|archive-date=July 7, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707011655/https://www.thechessdrum.net/newsbriefs/2006/NB_EmoryTate.html \|url-status=live }}</ref> His ~~older~~oldest son, [[Andrew Tate\|Andrew]], said: "I never saw him study chess books, ever. He also hated chess computers and never used them. He just sat down and played."<ref name="Lawrence" /> Tate earned a reputation as a creative and dangerous [[Chess tactic\|tactician]] on the U.S. chess circuit, where he won about 80 tournament games against [[Grandmaster (chess)\|grandmasters]].{{Sfn\|Shabazz\|2017\|p=31}} Tate won the [[United States Armed Forces Chess Championship]] five times.<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://new.uschess.org/news/armed-forces-champ-brilliant-tactician-emory-tate-1958-2015 \| title=Armed Forces Champ & Brilliant Tactician Emory Tate, 1958-2015 \| date=19 October 2015 \| access-date=25 March 2021 \| archive-date=18 June 2021 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618091344/https://new.uschess.org/news/armed-forces-champ-brilliant-tactician-emory-tate-1958-2015 \| url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web \|last=Klein \|first=Mike \|title=IM Emory Tate, 1958-2015 \|url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/emory-tate-1958-2015-7615 \|access-date=2022-11-24 \|website=Chess.com \|date=18 October 2015 \|language=en-US \|archive-date=2022-10-28 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221028095354/https://www.chess.com/news/view/emory-tate-1958-2015-7615 \|url-status=live }}</ref> He won the Indiana state championship six times (1995, 1996, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007) and was inducted into the Indiana State Chess Hall of Fame in 2005. He also won the Alabama state championship in 2010.<ref name="ShabazzCL">{{cite magazine \|last=Shabazz \|first=Daaim \|title=Triple Exclam!!! The winning ways of Emory Tate, 1958-2015 \|url=http://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/CL-AND-CR-ALL/CL-ALL/2016/2016_05.pdf \|magazine=[[Chess Life]] \|pages=36–40 \|date=May 2016 \|access-date=July 6, 2022 \|archive-date=August 11, 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220811215357/http://uscf1-nyc1.aodhosting.com/CL-AND-CR-ALL/CL-ALL/2016/2016_05.pdf \|url-status=live }}</ref> Fellow Air Force veteran and 2003 U.S. Armed Forces Chess Champion Leroy Hill said: "All the players had street names. Emory's was 'Extraterrestrial' because we thought his play was out of this world."<ref name="Lawrence" /> Line 57 ⟶ 59: [[Category:Sportspeople from Chicago]] [[Category:African-American chess players]] [[Category:~~American~~20th-century ~~chess~~African-American ~~players~~sportsmen]] [[Category:~~20th~~21st-century African-American ~~sportspeople~~sportsmen]] ~~[[Category:21st-century African-American sportspeople]]~~ [[Category:African-American United States Air Force personnel]] [[Category:Northwestern University alumni]] [[Category:20th-century American chess players]] [[Category:21st-century chess players]]