Robert Irons

Robert Irons was the Correspondence Chess Editor for the US Chess Federation from October 2022 to March 2024, and during that period he wrote the monthly column for Chess Life on correspondence chess, The Check is in the Mail. He earned a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology and has published 20 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. Irons has previously written two textbooks, one in Finance and one in Politics. He is currently on the faculty of the School of Business and...See more

Robert Irons was the Correspondence Chess Editor for the US Chess Federation from October 2022 to March 2024, and during that period he wrote the monthly column for Chess Life on correspondence chess, The Check is in the Mail. He earned a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology and has published 20 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. Irons has previously written two textbooks, one in Finance and one in Politics. He is currently on the faculty of the School of Business and Economics at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, IL. See less