"The tournament brings up an interesting point about the FIDE rating list. It seems its practically impossible to get a name changed in the list. Two of the players Andranik Matikozyan (his preferred spelling) is called "Matikozian" by FIDE and Jack Peters is still listed as John A. Peters, a name he hasn't used in more than 20 years."

Today (2009) there is no John Peters in the FIDE list. The above games should be transferred to Jack Peters.

Some of the games by Peters belong to Jack Peters:

John Peters was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 10, 1951. He was champion of New England in 1971, 1974, and 1975. He was a USCF life master at the age of 22. He was Massachusetts State Champion in 1974 and 1975 (tied with John Curdo). He played in the 1975 U.S. Championship (won by Browne), tieing for 10th-13th place.He was the winner of the American Open in 1977. In 1978 he was President of the Professional Chess Association (PCA). He was awarded the International Master title in 1979. He was a games editor for Chess Horizons and is a chess columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His current Elo rating is 2419. His maximum Elo rating was 2476.

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Does anyone have a copy of <Chess Life, December 1994>?

If you do, would you please look on <page 40> to check this quotation from <IM Jack Peters>, who I believe is <John Peters>?:

<" Lasker had noticed signs of uncertainty in Steinitz' handling of "simplified" middlegames, without <<<Queens.>>> Recognizing the champion's superiority in managing a full army of pieces, Lasker deliberately sought early Queen exchanges. This strategy certainly worked in Philadelphia.">

We are fact checking this citation in an effort to edit Lasker-Steinitz World Championship (1894).

<Curdo dominates tourney
DONDIS, HAROLD
Boston Globe (1960-1983); Jan 12, 1969; pg A_96

The early press would use both John and Jack (and Jackie).

Hi Granny,

But if your opponent thinks; "Aha The Scandinavian." then they have not got the game plan.

The best plan is to sac three pawns and get in e5.

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A reversed Danish from the Scandinavian!

This opening has a 100% record here and is so good the same game appears twice.

Olland vs G W Kloosterboer, 1926

Olland vs G W Kloosterboer, 1926

(correction slip sent.)

John is jinxed?>

As <Tabanus> mentioned above,

<John Peters was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 10, 1951.>

In the March 2011 CL he pegs himself as growing up in Scituate:

<I remember a particularly grumpy copy editor who was assigned to review my
column. He knew nothing about chess,
but I could tell from his accent that he
was from Massachusetts, like me. I made
the mistake of telling him I grew up in Scituate, a small town about 20 miles from Boston. He said he was from South
Boston, a gritty part of the city totally
unlike my beach town. His glare widened
the cultural gap between us.>

FWIW - friends of John Kennedy called him Jack as well. So it could be a Hyannis-thing as well.

There's one over on Wikimedia, but the one I like best was taken by his son Bill:

<Without another word, he read my column while holding his blue pen ready to correct my errors. To my astonishment, he put down his pen without making a single mark. “You’re a good speller,” he said, and we got along fine for years. >