Mig Greengard, whose full name is Michael Greengard, (b. 9 June 1969 in Berkeley, California) is a well known chess author and journalist. He lived for a number of years in Argentina where he claims to have had a master rating. He returned to America in 1999 where he became the managing director of the New York Office of Kasparov Chess Foundation at 32 Broadway and was closely associated with World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov.
He is a regular columnist for ChessBase and New in Chess magazines. [1] He also writes a column on his own website called "The Daily Dirt".
In 2007, Greengard was named “Chess Journalist of the Year” by the United States Chess Federation. [2]
Greengard has been involved in a number of controversies, usually as an outspoken critic of the establishment. He strongly supported Paul Truong and Susan Polgar in the 2007 USCF elections, but has recently turned against them after discovering that they have posted to his blog under at least ten different fake names. He has filed an abuse report with their ISP.
On this subject, Mig writes:
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I'm all for anonymity, even as stupid as it makes some people. But when it comes to people coming here and crapping all over the place, no. Crawl back to the Usenet or we will see what your Suddenlink provider has to say about identity theft and providing server logs, which can trivially reconstruct your connection times, dns connection records, and packet transmission down to the millisecond, making IP superfluous. [3]