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US Chess is saddened by the sudden and unexpected passing of former US Chess President and current Zonal President Ruth Haring. I have lost a mentor and a friend.
I first came to know Ruth during the Polgar vs. USCF, et al. litigation. She was supremely ethical, transparent and of sound judgment. She also had a wonderfully cynical sense of humor. We shared many a laugh together. A good person who will be missed by many.
OMG. Ruth Haring’s picture appeared in Chess Life several times in the late 60s and early 70s as a high school star. Her passing comes much too soon.
Bill Smythe
I never met her, but I’m very sorry to hear about this.
I imagine that most of us knew Ruth as a nonprofit leader; Mike Klein’s obituary on the chess.com site gives a wonderful sense of Ruth as a chess player.
Ruth was definitely stronger than her rating. In recent years, she would outplay opponents in early rounds of national events, then give them a break because she’d had her fun for the evening and there was nonprofit work that needed to be attended to. (She still gave me the courtesy of a thirty-minute post mortem before returning to her real work.) And I remember her sheer pleasure in playing the Budapest 4.Bf4 g5! against a strong opponent at the 2015 US Open in Phoenix.
Deepest condolences to her family and friends.
Ruth Haring R.I.P.
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Chess is as much a mystery as women. – Cecil Purdy
I first meet her at the 2006 US Open in the Chicago area, when I happened to attend the Women’s Chess workshop. She was then the chairperson of that committee. Even if she no longer was a competitor in the Women’s closed championships she still was a strong supporter of women in chess. She may have had the longest tenure of any member of the Women’s Chess Committee with the USCF. RIP.
Larry S. Cohen
Harold Winston may have had a longer tenure on the Women’s Chess Committee than Ruth.
Ruth asked interesting questions, and then listened to the answers. That made her rare in US Chess circles.
Special thanks to GM Maurice Ashley for his tribute to Ruth at this evening’s fundraising dinner for the CCSC of St Louis.
The Young Ruth Haring
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“Chess, like love, is infectious at any age.” - Salo Flohr
The man standing behind Ruth in the photo appears to be her ex-husband GM Peter Biyiasas.
