Greg Shahade, Date of Birth
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American chess player
Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1978
Profession: chess player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
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About Greg Shahade
- Gregory Shahade (born December 22, 1978) is an International Master of chess.
- He founded the New York Masters and the U.S.
- Chess League.
- He is a former member of the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation, to which his younger sister Jennifer Shahade was hired as the executive editor-in-chief of the website.
- Greg had a distinguished scholastic career, highlighted by three national championships: tying for first in the 1993 National Junior High School Championship and the 1996 National High School Championship, and winning the 1996 United States Junior Open outright.
- He was the leading scorer for Julia R.
- Masterman School in 1996, when they won their first of four National High School Chess Championships.
- He won the prestigious Samford Fellowship, awarded by the U.S.
- Chess Trust to the top U.S.
- prospect under the age of 25, in 1999.
- The fellowship granted Shahade approximately $25,000 to train for and play in top tournaments.
- He was also renewed for it in 2000 and subsequently scored his first (and so far only) Grandmaster norm at the Bermuda Closed in January, 2001.
- Since 2006, he has held 30 sessions of the US Chess School, where the nation's top young chess talents are invited to train under the instruction of various Grandmasters.
- He was the founder and Commissioner of the U.S.
- Chess League, which folded in 2016.His father is FIDE Master Michael Shahade and his mother was Drexel University chemistry professor and author Sally Solomon.
- His sister is Woman Grandmaster Jennifer Shahade. Starting in October 2007, Shahade has been making chess videos at ChessVideos.tv.
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