NM Loal Davis
| Loal Davis started playing chess at the age of 10. He competed through
school and became a chess expert winning the Los Angeles open when he was
18. While obtaining a performance music degree at Indiana University (Bloomington) he won the Mid-Western Intercollegiate Chess Championship, and spent the following three years as principal viola, playing and touring with a Symphony and Chamber Orchestra centered in Jalapa, Mexico. After returning to the United States he won the Illinoi State Chess Championship and tied for third in the World Open (New Paltz, New York). Loal played with the Pasadena, San Gabriel, and Santa Barbara Symphonies, eventually setling in San Luis Obispo, California. He became a chess master, married, and had a host of music positions. He was district music supervisor for the Cayucos school system, teaching classroom, vocal, and instrumental music. He taught the entire string program for the Atascadero school system, taught a variety of classes at Cal Poly University (San Luis Obispo), and at the San Luis School of Music. He conducted the San Luis Obispos County Symphony, the San Luis Obispo County Youth Symphony, had approximately 35 private music students, and still found time on the weekends to teach chess. Loal went through a career switch in 1984 and became a computer programmer/analyst. He started working for E.D.S. in San Francisco and was eventually sent to their corporate headquarters in Dallas Texas where he won the Dallas Open Chess Championship. Returning to San Francisco, Loal has been working as a computer technical specialist for an insurance firm in Menlo Park, California, for the last 12 years. Loal and his family moved to St. Louis about a year ago and he has been telecommuting since. Loal is available for lessons and/or lectures. His email address is loaldavis@yahoo.com |