Tags: Chess Player.
This article is about the chess master; for the English painters see Frederic Yates (1854–1919) or Fred Yates (1922–2008).Frederick Dewhurst Yates (16 January 1884 Birstall – 11 November 1932 London) was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions. He started a career in accountancy but in 1909 abandoned it in favour of becoming a professional chess player and journalist.