Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in
1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess
Championship in 1999. He became a Senior International Master (SIM) in
1999. His ICCF rating of 2580 placed him in the top 200 correspondence
chess players worldwide.
Jon is an accomplished chess teacher and author. His book, The Chess
Analyst (1999) chronicled his success in the US championship. His
photographically based chess primer, Teach Yourself Visually: Chess
(2006), is helping many thousands of young learners.