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Coveyou was a tournament chess player, and was [http://tnchess.us/?page_id=259 Tennessee State Champion] eight times. He is a member of the [http://tnchess.us/?page_id=138 Tennessee Chess Hall of Fame], having been inducted with the inaugural class in 1990. One of Coveyou's memorable chess experiences was hosting then 13-year old [[Bobby Fischer]] at his hotel room in Cleveland, Ohio, after Fischer had just won the 1957 U.S. Open. Coveyou, Fischer, and Edmar Mednis, a chess master from New York and friend of Fischer's played informal games of chess for hours after the conclusion of the tournament, lasting into the early morning hours of the next day.
Bob Coveyou was also active politically and in the civil rights movement. He helped lead an effort to establish Scarboro High School in the African American neighborhood of Oak Ridge. The school operated from 1950 until Oak Ridge High School was desegregated in the fall of 1955. Prior to the opening of Scarboro High School, African American children in Oak Ridge had to bus into Knoxville, 30 miles away, to attend Austin High School.<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=D. Ray|title=Education in Oak Ridge – Pre - Oak Ridge and Early - Oak Ridge Schools , part 2|url=http://smithdray1.net/historicallyspeaking/2006/11-21-06%20Education%20in%20Oak%20Ridge%20-%20pre%20Oak%20Ridge%20part%202.pdf|accessdate=2 January 2014}}</ref>
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