Chris Bird is a FIDE Arbiter and USCF Senior Tournament Director who has served at numerous major events across the US, including the 2007 US Women's Championship and 2009 US Championship.  As well as providing arbiting duties, Chris is just as well known for his chess website work (www.uswcc2007.com, www.chicagoopen.net, www.foxwoodsopen.com, www.northamericanopen.com) and for providing an onsite audience display and online live broadcast of games.  Chris has also had articles and photographs published in both Chess Life and Chess Life Online and was awarded the US Chess League Blogger of the Year award in 2008 for maintaining the Boston Blitz website at www.boston-blitz.com.  For the past three years Chris has also organized an annual Masters event, the New England Masters (www.newenglandmasters.com) which is specifically run to provide opportunities for players seeking FIDE norms.

 
Born and raised in Hull, England, Chris moved to Las Vegas, NV, in 1998 and has lived in the US ever since, currently residing near Boston, MA, where he works as an administrator at Harvard Medical School.  Chris is a former President of Nevada Chess, Inc., the USCF state affiliate for Nevada, and former General Secretary of the Hull & District Chess Association.