LARIMER COUNTY — Nationally ranked chess player Robert Michael Snyder is being sought by Larimer County authorities after he completed two years of jail time for unlawful sexual contact but failed to register as a sex offender and show up for probationary supervision.
An arrest warrant was issued by Larimer County for Snyder, 54, on Sept. 19 for failure to register as a sex offender. The probation department issued an arrest warrant for Snyder a week earlier for contempt of court. He has been placed on both the Fort Collins police and Larimer County sheriff’s “most wanted” lists.
In February 2006, Snyder was arrested after he was accused of sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy and two 13-year-old male chess students.
A prodigy who started learning chess when he was 12, Snyder started a school for young students in the early 1980s. During weekend tournaments, students slept over at Snyder’s Fort Collins house. Howard Pankratz, The Denver Post
