Stuart Rachels, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American chess player
Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1969
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Profession: chess player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Stuart Rachels
- Stuart Rachels (born September 26, 1969) is an International Master of chess and the son of the philosopher James Rachels (1941–2003).
- He tied for first place in the 1989-90 U.S.
- Chess Championship.
- Although no longer an active player, his FIDE rating is 2485, and his USCF rating is 2605.
- Rachels grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.
- He received a B.A.
- in philosophy, with highest honors, from Emory University in 1991, another B.A., in philosophy and politics, from Oxford University in 1993 on a Marshall Scholarship, and a Ph.D.
- from Syracuse University in 1998. In 1981, at the age of 11 years and 10 months, he became the youngest chess master in U.S.
- history, a record that stood until 1994.
- He won the United States Junior Invitational Championship in 1988.
- His greatest chess achievement was tying for first place in the 1989–90 U.S.
- Championship with grandmasters Roman Dzindzichashvili and Yasser Seirawan.
- This qualified him to play in the 1990 Manila Interzonal, where he achieved a respectable score of 6 points out of 13 games.
- Rachels and John Grefe, the 1973 U.S.
- co-champion, are the only players since 1948 to win or share the U.S.
- Championship who did not become grandmasters.
- FIDE awarded him the International Master title, and he also received the equivalent of two grandmaster norms, one short of the number needed for the title.
- Rachels retired from chess in 1993. In 1999, he became an assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- In 2004, he was promoted to associate professor.
- He has released later editions of some of his father's books, notably The Elements of Moral Philosophy and Problems from Philosophy.
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