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Allan G. Savage (1951-2022) was a medical information specialist at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland (NLM), but his great passion in life was chess. He learned the game at 10 years of age, but quickly excelled to become a National Master at 20, then a F.I.D.E. Master, as well as an International Correspondence Chess Master with a rating of 2412. He won the Maryland State Championships at the Junior Level (1968, 1969), the Senior Level (2012), and the overall championship in 1988 and 1990.

Savage was the consummate chess professional, functioning as a player, teacher, journalist, collector and author. He wrote Introduction to Chess: The Creative Game (Prentice Hall, 1982), which he considered his greatest achievement, since, as he said "it had the greatest impact on the most people." He contributed to numerous journals: Chess Life, Chess Atlas, Chess Mail, and Chess Gazette, in addition to serving as Editor-in-chief of Chess Horizons from 1978-1981..

Savage distinguished himself as a collector of chess-related materials, assembling a chess library of over 5,000 volumes, a formidable array of rare chess stamps, and many distinctive chess sets and artifacts. In the 1990s, he became interested in the games of the French artist Marcel Duchamp and, in 1998, published Reconciling Chess: A Marcel Duchamp Sampler. In 2013, the Chess Journalists of America awarded him "Best Historical Article of the Year" for "Duchamp Dada: A Reappraisal." At the time of his death, he was working to complete the third and last volume of Vlastimil Faila, The Chess Biography of Marcel Duchamp, which pertained to Duchamp's games from 1930 to the time of his death in 1968.