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Ronald Watson "Ron" Henley (born December 5, 1956 in Houston, Texas) is an American chess grandmaster, writer, narrator and producer of chess videos, as well as financial funding trader.
American Stock Exchange
As President of RWH Advisors, Henley acts as Special Consultant to Ultra High Net Worth Individuals and Family Offices.
From 1985 through 2001, Henley was an American Stock Exchange Member, as a trader, market maker and specialist. Henley traded extensively in Phillip Morris, Wells Fargo and Teva Pharmaceutical. From 2001 to 2005, Henley was a founding partner and Head Trader of a statistical arbitrage family of hedge funds, with clients such as Bank of America, Gottex Fund of Funds and Aegon USA Insurance Company. Henley went into business consulting where he joined the Board of Directors of several private companies including Quantum Genomics. Henley is currently a member of the financial trading industry as well as preeminent chess scholar.
Chess titles
Henley was awarded the International Master title in 1980, and the Grandmaster title in 1982. He won the GM title by jointly winning a 26-player round-robin tournament in Surakarta, Denpasar, Indonesia, defeating Grandmaster Tony Miles in the last round.
Henley has been a second, analyst and trainer for former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov in several matches in the 1990s. Henley has written several chess books, and also served as a chess trainer and promoter of leading young women chess players such as Irina Krush.
Henley narrated the double-volume chess video, "American Chess Princesses". In this video, Irina Krush, Elina Groberman, Laura Ross and Shirley Ben-Dak present some of their best games from the 1997 FIDE World Youth Chess Championships held in Cannes, France. He was appointed by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov as President of the World Chess Champions Council Inc, a New York nonprofit organization that promotes chess in schools.
In 2012, Henley was invited to join National Master William Stewart for the educational website 'OnlineChessLessons'. Henley provides skills as a chess analyst to upload content to the website. Henley remains a prominent figure in the chess world, covering the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey.
Books
- Elista Diaries: Karpov-Kamsky, Karpov-Anand, Anand Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches (with Anatoly Karpov) ISBN 0-923891-97-8
- Archangel!: A Defense Against the Ruy Lopez ISBN 1-883358-01-9
- The King's Indian Attack! ISBN 1-883358-02-7
- The Spanish Exchange! ISBN 1-883358-08-6
- The Dragon!: Powerplay ISBN 1-883358-06-X
- The ChessBase University BlueBook Guide to Winning with The King's Indian Attack! ISBN 1-883358-00-0
- Crushing White: The Dzindzi Indian! Volume 1: ISBN 1-935979-01-2
References
- Ron Henley player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- American Chess Princesses! on DVD
- Mass Mutual Financial Group
- 2013 RWH Advisors Company Info
- Quantum Genomics - Ron W Henley Bio
- Zoominfo Investor Profile: Ron W Henley
- Quantum Genomics - Ron W Henley Bio
- Mass Mutual Financial Group
- Ron Henley rating card at FIDE
- Surakarta/Denpasar, 1982
- 365Chess.com Tournament Results
- Elista Diaries, by Anatoly Karpov & Ron Henley
- www.anusha.com Book Review
- Grandmaster Ron W Henley
- American Chess Princesses! on DVD
- Win Like Kasparov Biography
- Grandmaster Ron W Henley
- Ron Henley Joins ChessLessons.net
- 2012 Chess Olympiad Coverage