Canadian Chess

This is a privately maintained web site dedicated to Canadian chess. If you are looking for the registered charity that is the national organization responsible for chess in Canada, they are here: Chess Federation of Canada (CFC).

History of Canadian chess
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame - created by David Cohen in 2000. The permanent plaque honouring these members of the Canadian Chess community resides at the Chess Federation of Canada offices in Ottawa.
Canadian Chess Biographies - over 350 quick biographies
Canadian Chess Topics
Canadian Chess Media - books, periodicals, digital publications (e-books, CDs, DVD), movies and chess columns
Canadian Chess Games - all of the games on this webpage are in the game file, in the order in which they are referred to on this webpage, except for missing game scores, which are marked with a * on this webpage
Chess Polls
Did you know? - includes Olympiad and Canadian Championship facts
Chess Articles - by David Cohen, mostly on Canadian chess
Teach chess
Learn chess
Toronto chess events - kids tournaments
Schedule of Canadian Chess Events - 2007-8
Canadian Chess Champions - national, provincial, regional, city
Canadian Chess Player of the Year - created by David Cohen in 2003. The permanent plaque honouring these members of the Canadian Chess community resides at the Chess Federation of Canada offices in Ottawa.
Top Rated Canadian Chess Player at Year-end
International titles awarded to Canadians - FIDE, ICCF
You can help - here is a list of missing games and other info I am looking for.
Links
Notes
Contributors
Sources

Send your contributions (including best game nominations), corrections (from primary sources) and comments to:
David Cohen - bw998 *at* freenet.carleton.ca

History of Canadian Chess

Chess has been played in Canada since the early 18th century, and probably since the late 17th century. According to the 1947 Canadian Championship tournament book edited by Leopold Christin, Alexandre de Chaumont, aide-de-camp of de Tracy (Lt.-Gen. of the armies of the King of France in America), was one of the best chess players in France in 1665, and suggests that he would not have spent his two years in the French colony (now Quebec) without playing chess.

According to Christin, archival correspondence of Louis-Guillaume Verrier, Solicitor-General of Quebec, documents his chess playing with the Intendant of Quebec, Hocquart, 1728-58.

There is a chess set in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa which was donated by Fred Hale. According to him, this was the set his ancestor, General Sir John Hale, "and General Wolfe played with on their way over to the taking of Quebec" in 1759.

Organized local chess in Canada dates from the late 18th century: Richard Bulkeley was president of a 'chess, pencil, and brush club' in Halifax, Nova Scotia from about 1787. By the 1840s, chess clubs were operating in Quebec City, Quebec, and Kingston, Ontario. The Montreal Chess Club was founded in 1844, and the Toronto Chess Club was operating by 1846.

Organized chess across Canada began with the formation of the Canadian Chess Association (CCA) at Hamilton, Ontario on 1872.09.24. The first Canadian chess book was published around this time. In 1924, Canada became a founding member of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), the international governing body for chess. In 1932, the CCA was transformed into the Canadian Chess Federation, which was renamed the Chess Federation of Canada (CFC) in 1945. In 1955, the CFC established the Chess Foundation of Canada as its Permanent Trust Fund.

Correspondence chess has thrived in Canada since the 19th century; the Canadian Correspondence Chess Association was founded in 1921.

Chess in the schools has increased since the formation of Chess'n Math Association in 1985.

The Canadian style in chess "involves non-committal preservation of options, often connected with a slow development of the pieces," according to Lawrence Day. This style was developed in the 1960s by Duncan Suttles and influenced a generation of Canadian chess players.

Canadian Chess Hall of Fame

Selected 2000-8 by David Cohen

Canadian Chess Hall of Fame Inductees

2000

2001

My selection criteria for the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame for 2000:

Canadian chess champions and leading players representative of their era
Prominent organizers and promoters of chess in Canada

My selection criteria for the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame for 2001:

Prominent contributors to Canadian chess community, e.g., by dedication over many years to reporting on chess in Canada
Canadian chess champions

My selection criteria for the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame for 2002+ (one person per year):

Contributor to Canadian chess community

Canadian Chess Biographies

Biographies

Valerian Adam

Qualified FIDE Master title 2005

Mario Adriano

Correspondence International Master 2001

Rodulfo Alipayo

FIDE Master 2003

Denis Allan

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FIDE Master 1987
1984 Canadian Open Champion
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1987
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1968, 1980, 1986)
Represented Canada on Bronze medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1971; Silver medal for 1st Reserve

Here is Denis Allan's choice for two of his best games:

Denis Allan - Van Der Weide
Challengers, Hastings, England, 1968-9

Denis Allan - Kevin Spraggett
Labour Day Open, Toronto, Ontario, 1983

Bruce Amos

International Master 1969
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1970, 1972, 1976)
Represented Canada on Bronze medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1971; Silver medal for Board 2

Here is Bruce Amos' choice for two of his most memorable games:

Bruce Amos - Walter Browne
Canadian Open Championship, Toronto, Ontario, Round 8, 1976.08

Bruce Amos - Victor Korchnoi
Toronto International, Toronto, Ontario, Round 2, 1985.07.28

Frank Anderson

(1928-80)

Computer expert
International Master 1954
Two times Canadian Champion (1953, 1955)
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1954, 1958, 1964)
2nd place Canadian Correspondence Championship 1946
First place U.S. Junior Championship 1948
Best score, Board 2, Olympiads 1954 (+13 =2 -2) and 1958 (+9 =3 -1)
Would have qualified for the International Grandmaster title if illness (an attack of influenza) had not prevented him from playing in the last round of the 1958 Olympiad (the result of the game did not matter)
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 1954-6
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Frank Anderson - Raymond Doe
Canadian Championship, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Round 4, 1953

Charles Anstey

(1873-1943)

2nd place Canadian Championship 1910

Penka (Apostolova) Apostolov

Woman FIDE Master 1996
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 1994

Jacob G. Ascher

(1841-1912)

Portrait

Canadian Champion (1878, 1883)
Chess columnist, New Dominion Monthly

Portrait: New Dominion Monthly 1879.01, p.89; Toronto Reference Library

William Atkinson

(?-1887)

Played Canadian Championship 1874

Doug Bailey

Qualified FIDE Master title by rating after 2004 Canadian Closed
First place Ontario Open 2004
Canadian Junior Champion 1983

Doug Bailey - Peter Boross
1982-3 Ontario Junior Championship, Kitchener, Ontario, Round 3, 1982.10.30

Doub Bailey beat the reigning World Cadet (Under 16) Champion:

Doug Bailey - Evgeny Bareev
World Junior Championship, Belfort, France, Round 2, 1983

Osias Bain

5th place Canadian Championship 1947

Stephen Ball

Editor, En Passant chess magazine 1983-9
Represented Canada on Group 'B' Gold medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1977

Vesma Baltgailis

Woman International Master 1985
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (1978, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1992)
Played Canadian Women's Championship (1978, 1981, 1989, 1996, 2001)
2nd place Canadian Women's Championship 1991

Here is Vesma Baltgailis' choice for her most memorable game:

Vesma Baltgailis - Mary Kuhner
Toronto International Open, Under 2000 Section, Toronto, Ontario, Round 8, 1984

Fletcher Baragar

FIDE Master 1987
Represented Canada on Group 'B' Gold medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1977
Represented Canada at World Youth Team Championship 1978
Represented Canada on Group 'B' 1st place team at World Youth Team Championship 1980
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1987

Fletcher Baragar - Jaan Ehlvest
Interzonal, Zagreb, Round 12, 1987

Sylvain Barbeau

FIDE Master 1987
Canadian Junior Champion 1979
Canadian High School Champion 1978
IM Norm Montreal International 2001

Irina Barron

Qualified Woman FIDE Master 2001
1st place Toronto Women's Championship 2005
Soviet Army Girls Under-18 Champion 1981

Michael Barron

FIDE Master 2007

George Barry

Canadian Champion 1887

Gary Basanta

FIDE Master 1992

William A. Beers

(1883-1942)

William G. Beers

(1841-1900)

Founder of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, 1881, which affiliated a chess club

Daniela Belc

Woman FIDE Master
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 2000

Here is Daniela Belc's selection of her best game from the 2000 Olympiad:

Daniela Belc - Vlasta Macek
Women's Olympiad, Canada - Croatia, Board 1, Istanbul, Turkey, Round 13, 2000.11.10

Source: Report to CFC by Daniela Belc

John Harold (Harry) Belson

(1906-47)

Born Finland
Canadian Champion (1934, 1946)

Amanda Benggawan

Woman FIDE Master
Represented Canada Women's Olympiad 2002
2nd place Canadian Women's Championship 2001
6th place World Amateur Championship 2001
5th place Pan-American Youth Festival Girls Under-16 Championship 2001
Represented Canada World Girls Under-14 (1999, 2000), Under-12 (1997, 1998) Championships

Marie Bernard

Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 1974

Jonathan Berry

Journalist, chess columnist for the Globe and Mail since 1981
Tied record for blindfold simultaneous exhibition for player age 50+, 12 boards (+9 -1 =2), USA, 2004
Author of Canadian Junior Championship 1974, Diamond Dust 1991
Second editor of Bulletin (CFC's chess magazine) 1975-83
Second business manager of Chess Federation of Canada 1975-85
FIDE Master 1984
International Arbiter 1975
Correspondence International Grandmaster 1985
Canadian Correspondence Champion (1978, 1980)
North American Correspondence Champion 1982
Member Canada's 11th International Correspondence Chess Federation Olympiad Bronze medal team
Represented Canada at Pan-American Individual Championship 1977
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1982
2nd place Canadian Open 1981
Mexican Open Champion 1974
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Jonathan Berry's choice for his best game:

Stuart J. Hutchings - Jonathan Berry
Correspondence Olympiad 1990

Source: Diamond Dust by Jonathan Berry

Contributor: Jonathan Berry (game selection)

Richard Bérubé

FIDE Master 1997

Frederick Betts

(1853-1930)

Larry Bevand

Chess columnist for Montreal Gazette (1978-2001)
International Arbiter 1982
Founded Chess'n Math Association 1985
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Larry Bevand - Hugh Brodie
Toronto Open, Toronto, 1972

Peter Biyiasas

Owns firm that develops software for the investment industry
International Grandmaster 1978
Two times Canadian Champion (1972, 1975)
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal (1973, 1976)
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1972, 1974, 1976, 1978)
Silver medal, Board 2, Olympiad 1978
Bronze medal, Board 4, Olympiad 1972
Represented Canada on Bronze medal team at World Students' Team Championship 1971; Bronze medal for 2nd reserve
Represented Canada at Pan-American Individual Championship 1974
World Open Champion 1978
U.S. Junior Open Champion 1971
High School Champion, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1966
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 1978
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2002

Peter Biyiasas - Herman Suradiradja
Olympiad, Canada - Indonesia, Skopje, Yugoslavia, Finals Round 6, 1972

Here is Peter Biyiasas' choice for his best game:

Peter Biyiasas - Evgeny Vasiukov
1978-9 International Congress, Hastings, England, Round 4

Charles Blake

U.S. Open Champion 1911
First place, Canadian Championship 1913

Leopold Blanchard

(1898-1933)

Top Montreal player

Boris Blumin

Born St. Petersburg, Russia 1907
Canadian Champion (1936, 1937)
3rd place American Chess Federation Championship (later the U.S. Open Championship), Master Section 1938

Mark Bluvshtein

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International Grandmaster 2004
Youngest Canadian to be awarded Grandmaster title, at age 16
Canadian Chess Player of the Year (2004, 2005)
Canadian Open Champion 2005
Represented Canada at Olympiads (2002, 2004, 2006)
2nd place Canadian Championship 2006
3rd place Canadian Championship (2001, 2004)
Canadian Under-18 Champion 2005
Canadian Boys Under-14 Champion (2001, 2002)
Canadian Grade 10 Champion 2004
Canadian Grade 8 Champion 2002
Canadian Grade 7 Champion 2001
Israel Boys Under-12 Champion 1999
Israel Boys Under-10 Champion 1998
Represented Canada World Boys Under-18 Championship 2005 (3rd place)
Represented Canada World Boys Under-14 Championship 2001 (8th place)
Represented Israel World Boys Under-12 Championship 1999
Represented Israel World Boys Under-10 Championship 1998

Lia Bogdan

Woman FIDE Master 1986

Fedor Bohatirchuk

(1892-1984)

Born Kiev, Ukraine, arrived Canada 1948
Radiologist, professor
Tied 1st place USSR Championship 1927
International Master 1954
Correspondence International Master 1967
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1954
Canadian Correspondence Champion (1963, 1964)
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 1967
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2003

Won three games and drew at least one game with future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik:

Fedor Bohatirchuk - Mikhail Botvinnik
URS Ch, 1927 Moscow, Russia

Mikhail Botvinnik - Fedor Bohatirchuk
URS Ch, 1931 Moscow, Russia

Fedor Bohatirchuk - Mikhail Botvinnik
URS Ch, 1933 Leningrad, Russia

Fedor Bohatirchuk - Mikhail Botvinnik
Moscow, Russia 1935, Round 15

Alexandra Botez

North American Girls Under 12 Champion 2007
Qualified Woman Candidate Master (WCM) title 2007
1st place Canadian Girls Under 12 Championship 2007

William Boultbee

(1832-1902)

Canadian Champion 1892

Stephen Boyd

Technical secretary, Fédération Français d'Échecs
Trains chess arbiters and teachers
FIDE Master 1997
International Arbiter 1988
Represented Canada on Group 'B' 1st place team at World Youth Team Championship 1980
Team member, Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Champion (1974,1977)
Canadian Correspondence Champion (1974, 1975)
Canadian Correspondence Junior Champion (1972, 1973)
Chief Arbiter, World Youth Championship 1997 and World Cup of Rapid Chess 2001, Cannes, France

Here is Stephen Boyd's choice for his best game, his first win over a grandmaster:

Stephen Boyd - Petar Popovic
France Team Championship, Mulhouse, France, Round 5, 1998

Ken Braithwaite

Doina Brestoiu

Woman FIDE Master

Ephrem Brisebois

CFC President 1935

Gilles Brodeur

Wrote 'Le Tournoi international d'échecs, Montreal 1979' 1979
Co-wrote 'Fischer - Spasski 1972' 1972
Represented Monaco at Olympiad 1974

Hugh Brodie

Played in 29 consecutive Canadian Open Championships 1974-2002 (lifetime total of 31)
Historian on chess played in Montreal

Here is Hugh Brodie's choice of two of his best games:

Canadian Open, Windsor, Ontario, Round 3, 1991
Sylvester Robes - Hugh Brodie

Hugh Brodie - Gordon Taylor
Canadian Open, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Round 10, 1997.07.12

Contributor: Hugh Brodie

Charles Broughton

(1864-1945)

George Bryant

(?-1979)

Secretary, Chess Federation of Canada, mainly during the 1960s

Marina Bryskine

Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 2000

Here is Marina Bryskine's selection of her best game from the 2000 Olympiad:

Marina Bryskine - Oubaaqua Amina
Women's Olympiad, Board 2, Canada - Morocco, Istanbul, Turkey, Round 8, 2000.11.05

Contributor: Marina Bryskine

Martin Buchholz

FIDE Master 1983
Represented Canada as Alternate 2 on Group 'B' Gold medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1977; Gold medal for Board prize
Represented Canada on Group 'B' 1st place team at World Youth Team Championship 1980
Canadian Junior Champion 1977
Canadian Correspondence Junior Champion 1978

Richard Bulkeley

(1717-1800)

Nova Scotia Director of Public Works, Secretary, Judge
President of a 'chess, pencil, and brush club' in Halifax from about 1787

Source: Phyllis R. Blakeley, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1771-1800 Volume IV, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

Les Bunning

Lawyer; Senior Partner, Bunning & Farnand
CFC President 1980-82,1990-2
Organized Canadian Open (1973,1980), Canadian Closed 1984
First editor of Bulletin (CFC's chess magazine) 1973-5
First business manager of the Chess Federation of Canada 1973-5
Chess columnist, Ottawa Citizen

Les Bunning - Michael Schleifer
Ontario Open, Ridgetown, Ontario, Round 4, 1983.05.22

Doug Burgess

Chartered Accountant
CFC President
Most active tournament chess player in Canada 7 years in a row (1986-93)

Here is Doug Burgess' choice for his best game:

Doug Burgess - Francisco Cabanas
Canadian Open, Edmunston, New Brunswick, Round 5, 1990.07.02

Brett Campbell

FIDE Master 2001
1984 Canadian Open Champion
Qualified FIDE Master title 1999 Canadian Championship

Murray Campbell

Member of programming team for Hitech (ACM North American Computer Champion 1985, 1989), Chiptest, Chiptest-M (ACM North American Computer Champion 1987), Deep Thought 0.02 (ACM North American Computer Champion 1988), Deep Thought (ACM North American Computer Champion 1989, World Computer Champion 1989), Deep Thought/88 (ACM North American Computer Champion 1990), Deep Thought II (ACM International Computer Champion 1991, 1994)
Member of programming team for Deep Blue, which defeated World Champion Garry Kasparov in a game (1996) and in a match 3.5/6 (New York 1997), the first time these feats have ever been accomplished against a reigning World Champion

Here is Deep Blue's first win over World Champion Garry Kasparov, the first time that a computer beat a reigning World Champion:

Deep Blue - Garry Kasparov
ACM Chess Challenge, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Round 1, 1996.02.10

Here is Deep Blue's win over World Champion Garry Kasparov, in a game which Deep Blue team member GM Joel Benjamin, referring to the move 37. Be4, claimed (in the 2003 film 'Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine') was the first game in which a computer showed that it could play Grandmaster level chess:

Deep Blue - Garry Kasparov
IBM Man-Machine, New York, NY, USA, Round 2, 1997.05.04

Here is the final game of the match, which won the match for the computer, the first time that a computer beat a reigning World Champion:

Deep Blue - Garry Kasparov
IBM Man-Machine, New York, NY, USA, Round 6, 1997.05.10

Richard Anthony Cayford

Played Canadian Championship (1959,1961)
North America/Pacific Correspondence Champion 1992 for USA
Won Golden Knights Postal Tournament (1972, 1973)

Marie-Thérèse Chaput

University director of development
Represented Canada on Group B 1st place team at Women's Olympiad 1976
Played Canadian Women's Championship 1978
Formerly married to Leo Williams

Pascal Charbonneau

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International Grandmaster 2006
Winner, Winter Chicago FIDE Invitational 2006
Board 1 on Baltimore Kingfishers team, United States Chess League Champions 2005
United States Chess League Most Valuable Player 2005
Canadian Chess Player of the Year 2003
Canadian Champion (2002, 2004)
Canadian Open Champion 2002
Canadian Grade 7 Champion 1996
Canadian Cadet Champion 1998
Canadian Champion Under-18 1998
Canadian Champion Boys Under-16 1999
Canadian Grade 11 Champion 2000
Canadian Champion Boys Under-18 2000
Canadian Junior Champion 2000
Represented Canada at World Junior (Under-20) Championship 1999
Represented Canada at World Under-16 Championship 1999
Represented Canada at Olympiads (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006)
2nd place Pan-American Championship 2003
Represented Canada at World Championship 2004

Here is the game that won Pascal Charbonneau the 2002 Canadian Championship:

Pascal Charbonneau - Kevin Spraggett
Canadian Championship playoff, Richmond, British Columbia, Round 2, 2002.04.01

Here is Pascal Charbonneau's win over former World Champion Anand:

Pascal Charbonneau - Viswanathan Anand
Olympiad, Board 1, Canada - India, Turin, Italy, Round 12, 2006.06.03

Johanne Charest

Woman International Master 1996
Canadian Women's Champion 1996
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 2000
Represented Canada at Women's World Championship 2000

Alexandre de Chaumont

One of the best chess players in France in 1665
Spent two years in the French colony (now Quebec)
Aide-de-camp of de Tracy (Lt.-Gen. of the armies of the King of France in America)

Source: 1947 Canadian Championship tournament book edited by Leopold Christin

John Cherriman

(1823-1908)

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Lecturer, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto 1850-3
Professor and Chair of Mathematics & Natural Philosophy (Physics), University of Toronto 1853-75
Director, Canadian Magnetic Observatory 1853-5
Militia Lieutenant, University Rifle Corps; later, Captain, Queen's Own Rifles
First Superintendent of Insurance, Government of Canada 1875-85
Charter member, Royal Society of Canada 1882
Chess editor, Toronto Globe
First President of the Canadian Chess Association 1872
Defeated Johannes Zukertort in a simultaneous exhibition given by Zukertort in Ottawa, Ontario 1884
Organized first two Canadian correspondence tournaments 1873-4, 1874-5
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2007

Photo: The University of Toronto - A History by Martin L. Friedland, University of Toronto Press, 2002, p.48; University of Toronto Archives A73-0003/001 (21)
Sources: University of Toronto Archives; Suzanne Zeller, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1901-1910 (Volume XIII), University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000.

Stefanie Chu

Woman FIDE Master 1996
Canadian Champion Grade 8 1997
Canadian Champion Girls Grade 12 and under 1999
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (1996, 2000)
Represented Canada at Junior 1997, Under-16 (1998, 1999), Under-14 (1996, 1997), Under-10 1993 Girls' World Championships
2nd place Canadian Women's Championship 2001

Here is Stefanie Chu's choice for her best game:

Alfred Veltmann - Stefanie Chu
International Open, North Bay, Ontario, 1996

John Cleeve

(1926-1995)

Born England, arrived in Canada 1957.01
Chartered Accountant, businessman
President of the Canadian Correspondence Chess Association (1965-1990)
Vice-President International Correspondence Chess Federation 1987
Helped CCCA magazine editor Russ Isaac become the first person to be paid for chess in Canada 1964
Correspondence International Arbiter 1970
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1961
2nd place Canadian Correspondence Championship 1967
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Here is John Cleeve's selection of his best game, chosen in an interview with Jonathan Berry that was published in En Passant #100. The game won the best game prize.

A.B. Middlemass - John F. Cleeve
English Counties Correspondence Championship 1954-1955

Here are three more of John Cleeve's best games:

John Cleeve - K. Tandai
Correspondence PATT II

R.W. Baumgartner - John Cleeve
Correspondence, PATT II

Raimo Lindroos - John Cleeve
Correspondence, Finland - Canada match

Source: John Cleeve (game selection); CHECK! 514 edited by J. Ken MacDonald, April 1995

Contributor: Ralph Marconi

Joseph Cooke

(1858-1913)

Played Canadian Championship 1887 (3rd), 1889 (3rd), 1891 (2nd), 1894

Jocelyn Coté

Correspondence Grandmaster Norm and qualified Correspondence International Master title, 23rd World Correspondence Championship, Candidates, Section 2
Qualified 23rd World Correspondence Championship Finals

Camille Coudari

International Master 1979
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1978
Represented Canada on Bronze medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1971
Co-directed The Great Chess Movie, 1982

David Creemer

(1902-53)

Tailor
Played Canadian Championship 1933
Manitoba Champion 1934
Winnipeg Champion 1937
Coached D. Abraham Yanofsky
Vancouver Champion 1946-8
1st place Vancouver Diamond Jubilee Open 1946
President, British Columbia Chess Federation
Organized Canadian Championship 1951
Chess columnist, Vancouver Province

Contributor: Stephen Wright

Ioan Crisan

FIDE Master 1999

Charles Crompton

(1912-75)

Accountant
Lieutenant, Royal Canadian Artillery, World War II
Wrote weekly chess column and/or selected weekly chess problem for Toronto Star (1940-75)
President, Chess Federation of Canada (1936), Toronto Chess Club
Toronto Chess Club Champion 1934
Played Canadian Championship 1934

David Cummings

International Master 1984
Represented Canada at Olympiad 2000
Author of Symmetrical English 2001

George Danilov

Top Kingston player

Urmila Das

Woman International Master 1985

Alex Davies

FIDE Master 2003

Here are Alex Davies' choices for his best games:

Rob Jamieson - Alex Davies
Melbourne Chess Club Christmas Swiss, Melbourne, Australia, 1994.12.17

Alex Davies - Dragoljub Milicevic
British Columbia Championship, Vancouver, British Columbia, Round 4, 1999

Alex Davies - John (Jack) Yoos
British Columbia Championship, Vancouver, British Columbia, Round 6, 1999

A. Thomas Davison

(A.T. Davidson)

Canadian Champion (1891, 1894)

Angela Day

Woman International Master 1982
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (1976, 1978)
Represented Canada on Group B 1st place team at Women's Olympiad 1976

Lawrence Day

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Journalist, chess columnist Toronto Star since 1976
International Master 1972
Canadian Champion 1991
Canadian Open Champion (1976, 1980, 1988)
Canadian Senior Champion 2004
Represented Canada at World Junior Championship 1967
Represented Canada on Bronze medal team at World Students' Team Championship 1971
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1968, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998)
Bronze medal, Board 3, Olympiad 1986
1st place, North Bay International Open 1999
World Open Champion 1980
U.S. Junior Open Champion 1969
Contributor to The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985
Canadian Chess Journalist of the Year 1979
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 1979
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

My favourite Lawrence Day game:

Fernando Braga - Lawrence Day
Olympiad, Dubai 1986

Lawrence Day's choice for his best game and the one that won him the most money:

Lawrence Day - Leonid Bass, World Open, Philadelphia, 1980 (*)

Lawrence Day's memorable games, from his Retrospective, 1999:

Lawrence Day - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Open, Scarborough, 1964, Round 2

Lodewijk Prins - Lawrence Day
Holland - Canada, Olympiad, Lugano, 1968

Pal Benko - Lawrence Day
USA - Canada, Olympiad, Lugano, 1968

Lawrence Day - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Championship, Pointe Claire, Quebec, 1969

Dirk van Geet - Lawrence Day
Beverwijk, 1970

Lawrence Day - Boris Spassky
Toronto, 1971

Bruce Amos - Lawrence Day
Canadian Championship, Toronto, 1972

Manfred Schoeneberg - Lawrence Day
East Germany - Canada, Olympiad, Skopje, 1972

Source: Lawrence Day (game selections from his Retrospective, 1999)
Contributor: Lawrence Day (game, photo selections)
Photo: 1971 World Students' Team Championship, 'Shakmat' chess magazine, Issue 18 (282) p.17, Latvia, 1971, photo by Aivars Gipslis

Peter Warren Dease

(1788-1863)

Hudson's Bay Company officer (chief trader); British and Mohawk ancestry
Arctic explorer; accompanied Franklin's Second Land Journey 1825-7; in charge of 1837-9 expedition which mapped the Arctic coast from Alaska to King William Island
Dease Strait, between Victoria Island and the Arctic coast, named after him
While in charge of HBC's British Columbia district (1831-5), encouraged games such as chess at his command post at Fort St. James

Source: William R. Sampson, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1861-1870 Volume IX, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000; In quest of the North West Passage by Leslie Neatby, 1958, p.93, 122-7.

Claire Demers

Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 1974

Valer Eugen Demian

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Mechanical engineer
Correspondence International Master 2001
Correspondence International Arbiter 2005
ICCF Non-Title Tournaments Commissioner 2003-
Chess columnist Correspondence Chess News 2001-3
Canadian ICCF Olympiad team (12th: final; 13th-17th: semi-final)
Canadian ICCF Olympiad team captain (15th, 17th)
CCCA Membership Secretary 2004-
Chess coach for juniors: 1999 - 2nd CYCC U10 girls; 2004 1st CYCC U10 girls; 2006 2nd CYCC U8 boys; students qualified to WYCC (2004 - 2; 2005 - 2; 2006 -2)

Valer Eugen Demian's choice for his favourite game:

Irina Krush - Valer Eugen Demian
Simultaneous exhibition by Krush, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2006.06.10

Photo: Copyright 2006 Valer Eugen Demian. Used by permission.
Contributor: Valer Eugen Demian

Pierre Dénommée

International Arbiter 2002

Here are Pierre Dénommée's choices for his most memorable games:

Pierre Dénommée - Paul Nataf

Alexandre Lesiège - Pierre Dénommée
Simultaneous exhibition by GM Lesiège, 2000.03.17

John de Soyres

(1849-1905)

Rector
Leading player, organizer in Saint John, New Brunswick

Source: 'Last of the Nineteenth Century Champions of Saint John' by Larry Fyffe, En Passant 144, 1997.06, p.30-2

Andre DeVriendt

(1926-2006)

Correspondence Senior International Master 2002

Cornelia Dinca

Qualified Woman FIDE Master title by rating 2005.01
Canadian Girls Under 16 Champion 2004
Canadian Girls Under 14 Champion 2003

Nathan Divinsky

Mathematics Professor Emeritus 1991, University of British Columbia; runner-up Master Teacher Awards
PhD. Mathematics 1950 at age 24; wrote two mathematics books: Rings and Radicals 1965, Linear Algebra 1975; produced math puzzles Discovery TV
Vancouver School Board member 1974-80; chairman 1978-80
Vancouver City Council alderman 1981-2
part-owner, popular restaurant 'Bridges' established 1979 on Vancouver's Granville Island; editor, The Good Food Guide to Vancouver
Married 1972-83 to Kim Campbell, who became Canada's 19th Prime Minister 1993
CFC President 1954
FIDE Representative 1987-94
Editor, Canadian Chess Chat 1959-74 (except for 2 sabbaticals)
Radio, television commentator on chess
Author of Around the Chess World in 80 Years 1959, Warriors of the Mind (with Keene) 1989, The Chess Encyclopedia 1990, Life Maps of the Great Chess Masters 1994; provided game annotations for Jewish Chess Masters on Stamps by Felix Berkovich 2000
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1954, 1966)
Bridge Life Master 1972; Canadian Bridge League's Contract Bridge Champion 1987
Plays piano; enjoys and has sung in opera, operetta, musicals
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Owen Hindle - Nathan Divinsky
Olympiad, Havana, Cuba, Finals Round 5, 1966

Here is Nathan Divinsky's choice for his best game:

Fedor Bohatirchuk - Nathan Divinsky
Canadian Championship, Vancouver, British Columbia, Round 3, 1951

Source: Kim Campbell: The Making of a Politician, by Robert Fife, 1993, HarperCollins, p.33-55.

Igor Divljan

FIDE Master 2003

Vladimir (Walter) Dobrich

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Founder, editor, publisher Chess Canada magazine 1970-5
First Canadian full-time professional chess organizer 1969
Organized first Canadian Junior Championship 1970; Canadian Championship 1972

Raymond Doe

Played Canadian Championship 1953
Won Golden Knights Postal Tournament 1957

Michael Dougherty

FIDE Master 2002
1st place, Kitchener Masters 2001 with 8/9 (+7 =2)

Rudolph Draxl

Played Canadian Championship 1955

Israel Dremen

(variation: Dreman)

Manitoba champion three times

Redpath Drummond

Played Canadian Championship (1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1947, 1949)
1st place Canadian Correspondence Championship 1934
Ontario Correspondence Champion 1932

Serge Dubuc

Correspondence International Master 2003

Noel Duchesne

Played Canadian Championship 1937

Thanh Nha Duong

International Master 1999

Here is one of Thanh Nha Duong's favourite games:

Thanh Nha Duong - Jacob Murey
Quebec Open, Quebec 1987

Mark S. Dutton

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International Arbiter 2004
Canada's most prolific tournament organizer and director since 1972, having directed more than 300 tournaments
Served on Executive and Board of Directors of Toronto Chess Club, Greater Toronto Chess League, Ontario Chess Association; and more than 12 years as Governor of Chess Federation of Canada
President, club manager Scarborough Chess Club, 1993-8
Candidate Master; 1st place 1993 Macedonian Labour Day Open, Intermediate Section, with 5.5/6, $600 prize; active member of CFC, FQE, USCF 1972-95, playing many World Open, U.S. Open, National Opens all over North America
Founded Dutton Chess, with his wife and partner, Christine Dutton in 1998; assisted by son Warren Dutton, National Master and 3 time Canadian Junior Championship participant
Founder, manager Dutton Chess Club, Toronto, 1999.08-2002.12
Chief Arbiter, Toronto Closed and Reserves Championships, 2000-2
Organized, Chief Arbiter, 1st Toronto Summer International, 2000.08
Organized, directed 30th Ontario High School Championship, Toronto, 2000.05
Organized, directed 1st Ontario Women's Championship, Toronto, 2002.08
Chief Arbiter, Canadian Closed & Zonal Championships, Toronto (77th: 2004.08, 78th: 2006.08)
Chief Arbiter, Grand Pacific Open, Victoria, British Columbia (2nd Annual: 2008.03)

Here is Mark Dutton's choice for his best game:

Boris Spassky - Mark Dutton
GM Spassky Simultaneous Exhibition, Pickering, Ontario, 1995

(Charles John) George Eastman

(Karl Johan Georg Ostman)
(1903-75)

Tied 1st place Canadian Championship 1931

Michael Edelstein

(?-2003)

Died age 85
Correspondence Senior International Master 1999

George Emery

(1904-36)

Born near St. Thomas, Ontario
Mechanic
Problem composer

Max Enke

Farmer
British Columbia Champion (1925, 1927)
Basis for a P.G. Wodehouse character

Albert Ensor

Canadian Champion 1873

John Ewing

(1889-1952)

School teacher, professor
British Columbia Champion seven times (1916, 1919-23, 1936)
Played Canadian Championship 1924
Edited British Columbia Chess Magazine 1918-20

Contributor: Stephen Wright

Joseph Ferencz

(1910-2003)

Top Montreal player in late 1950s - early 1960s

Gerald Fielding

Played Canadian Championship 1953

W.E. Frank Fillery

(1903-85)

Civil servant (letter carrier)
Problem composer
Chess columnist, Vancouver Province

Ian Findlay

FIDE Master 1984

Here is Ian Findlay's choice for one of his most memorable games, his first win over IM Day:

Lawrence Day - Ian Findlay
Toronto, Ontario, 1983

Richard P. Fleming

(Richard F. Flemming)

First winner of Challenge Shield, Dundee Chess Club, Scotland
Lived Canada 1887-99
Canadian Champion 1889
Defeated Bird, Blackburne in simultaeous exhibitions given by them, Montreal, 1889
Team member, Dundee Chess Club, winner of first Richardson Cup for the Team Championship of the Scottish Chess Association, 1899

Contributor: Alan McGowan
Source: The Story of the Dundee Chess Club by Peter Walsh, 1984

Edward Fletcher

(1817-97)

Architect, surveyor, author
Quebec deputy surveyor general; secretary, member Board of Examiners of Land Surveyors

Source: Gilles Langelier, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1891-1900 Volume XII, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

Maurice Fox

(1898-1988)

Born Ukraine, arrived in Canada 1923
Electrical engineering degree, University of London 1921
Eight times Canadian Champion (1927, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1949)
5th place Bradley Beach, USA 1929
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Defeated future World Champions Jose Capablanca and Robert Fischer, and drew future World Champion Alexander Alekhine:

Jose Capablanca - Maurice Fox
Simultaneous Exhibition, London, England, 1919.09.18

Alexander Alekhine - Maurice Fox
Toronto, Ontario, 1924

Robert Fischer - Maurice Fox
Canadian Open, Montreal, Quebec, Round 4, 1956

Bernard Freedman

(1894-1983)

Born Antwerp, Belgium, lived in Canada 1911-1914, returned 1929
Diamond merchant
Principal organizer of the Canadian Chess Federation 1932
CFC President 1949-1951, 1955
FIDE Representative 1932-1957
FIDE Vice-President 1947-57
First Chairman, Chess Foundation of Canada 1955
Organized World Junior Championship in Toronto 1957
Sponsored D. Abraham Yanofsky, Frank Anderson and other young players
Received Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for contributions in the field of chess 1977
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Nigel Fullbrook

FIDE Master 1999
Canadian Junior Champion 1974

Henry Funk

Jacob Funk

Geza Fuster

(1910-90)

Born Budapest, Hungary
International Master 1969
Hungary Champion 1941
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1958, 1970)
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1958

Sydney Gale

(Sidney Gale)
(?-1950)

Canadian Champion 1920

Drew future World Champion Alexander Alekhine:

Alexander Alekhine - Sydney Gale
Toronto, Ontario, 1924

John Gardner

(1856-1920)

Vladimir Gaspariants

FIDE Master

Gaston Gaudet

Played Canadian Championship 1926

Kevin Gentes

FIDE Master 1992

Artur Yusupov - Kevin Gentes
Canadian Open, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1986

Jack Gersho

Top Montreal player

Leonid Gerzhoy

Arrived Canada 2005
International Master
Canadian Junior Champion 2007
2nd place Canadian Championship 2006

Marc Ghannoum

FIDE Master 2001

Eugene Gibney

Correspondence Senior International Master 2004
Represents Ireland

Stephen Glinert

Photo

International Master 2003
4th place Canadian Championship 2002
Canadian Junior Champion 2002
Canadian Under-14 Champion 1998
Canadian Under-12 Champion 1996
Canadian Under-10 Campion 1994
Canadian Grade 6 Champion 1996
Canadian Grade 5 Champion 1995
Canadian Grade 3 Champion 1993
Pan-Am Scholastic Champion 1999
Youngest Canadian to achieve Candidate Master rating, age 9

Danny Goldenberg

FIDE Master
Canadian Junior Champion 1998

Aaron Gonnason

(1865-1938)

President, millwrighting firm Capital Planing Mills (later Lemon, Gonnason and Co. Ltd.)
Victoria Champion 1922
Donated Gonnason Cups for Victoria Championship; and for British Columbia intercity team championship

Contributor: Stephen Wright

C. Frank Goodman

Canadian Correspondence Champion 1942, 1943
Canadian Correspondence Chess Association Champion 1941

John Gordon

Problem composer

Valentina Goutor

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Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 2004
Top Woman at Canadian Championship 2004
Canadian Girls Under 12 Champion 2001
Canadian Grade 3 Champion 1998

Charles Grant

(1842-1916)

Played Canadian Championship 1897

Ernest H. Green

(1877-1957)

Founded Western Canada Correspondence Chess Club to match Winnipeg chess club members with players in more remote areas of Western Canada; later expanded to become Canadian Correspondence Chess Association

Sources: Ontario Archives; Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 1957.11.06, p.31, p.39 (University of Toronto Library); essay 'Chess in Canada' by Stanley Wilson, 1958 (Dudley LeDain Collection, National Archives, Ottawa)

Jan Green-Krotki

Canadian Open Champion 1977

John Hale

First place, Continental Correspondence Tournament, Preliminary Round, Section 1, 1894-5

Philip (Phil) Haley

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Engineer, manager
Played in 1945 Canadian Championship
Chairman, Chess Foundation of Canada 1959-1967
CFC President 1971-1973
International Arbiter 1973
Received Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for contributions in the field of chess 1977
FIDE Representative 1994-2001
Active in CFC and FIDE for many years as player, tournament director, executive member
Pioneered use of (controlled pairing) Swiss system of tournament pairings in Canada and at FIDE Olympiads
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Here is one of the first games played by a computer in a tournament:

Phil Haley - Dataline PDP-10 (MacHack 7)
Labour Day Open, Toronto, Ontario, Round 3, 1969.08.31

Here are three of Phil Haley's selections for his best games:

Phil Haley - Alexis Popov
U.S. Open, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1965

Phil Haley - Leo Williams
International Open, Toronto, Ontario, 1985

Phil Haley - Bryon Nickoloff
Canadian Open, Scarborough, Ontario, 1988, Round 1

Contributor: Phil Haley (biography, game selection)
Photo: Copyright 2004 Phil Haley. Used by permission.

James Halkett

(1845-1922)

W.S. Hallock

Robert Hamilton

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FIDE Master 1987
Canadian Junior Champion 1981

Here is Robert Hamilton's selection for an interesting game:

Alex Kuznecov - Robert Hamilton
1980-1 Canadian Junior Championship, Edmonton, Alberta

Bruce Harper

FIDE Master 1983

Bruce Harper's choice for his favourite game of his own:

Bruce Harper - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Open, Ottawa, 1973

Bruce Harper's choice for his favourite game:

Istvan Bilek - Duncan Suttles
Venice, Italy, 1974

Contributor: Bruce Harper (game selection)

Brian Hartman

International Master 1992
Canadian Team Captain, Olympiad 2004
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1984
Canadian Open Champion 1985

John Harvey

Tied 1st place Canadian Championship 1920

Rob Hawkes

FIDE Master 1983

Rea Hayes

Played Canadian Championship 1936, 1947 (3rd), 1951

Jean Hébert

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Journalist, chess columnist for La Presse
International Master 1978
Correspondence International Grandmaster 1984
1st place Canadian Championship 2007
Canadian Champion 1978
Canadian Open Champion 2002
2nd place Canadian Correspondence Championship 1976
Member Canada's 11th International Correspondence Chess Federation Olympiad Bronze medal team
Canadian Junior Champion 1976
Tied 1st place Canadian Junior Champion 1977
Drew former World champion Mikhail Botvinnik in a simultaneous exhibition, Montreal, Quebec 1977
Represented Canada at World Under-17 Championship 1974
Represented Canada at World Junior Championship 1976
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1979
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002)
Bronze medal, Board 3, Olympiad 1982
Author of Match Karpov - Kortchnoi 1978, Border Wars III 1984, Lecons d'échecs du tournoi international de Montreal 2001, Modern Benoni CD
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Here is Jean Hébert's choice for one of his best games:

Jean Hébert - Alexandre Lesiège
Pere Noel, Montreal, Quebec, 1994

Contributor: Jean Hébert
Photo: Copyright 2004 Jean Hébert. Used by permission.

Lauri Heino

Abraham Helman

(?-1952)

Represented Canada at Olympiad 1939

John Henderson

(1836-96)

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Mayor, Saint-Liboire, Quebec for 8 years
Magistrate, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec for 12 years
Montreal Gazette chess editor and columnist 1886-96
Composed two songs: The Royal Game, 1877; Bold Champions of Caissa, 1879
Won first Canadian Correspondence Championship 1878-80
First place Canadian Correspondence Tournament 1874-5
Won Hamilton Chess Club Correspondence Tournament 1880-2
Played Canadian Championship 1872, 1879, 1881, 1882 (2nd), 1884 (2nd)
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2005

John Henderson - W. Braithwaite
Correspondence - Canada, 1873

Contributor: Erik Malmsten, J. Ken MacDonald (game selection)
Sources: Hamilton Spectator 1872.09.25; British Chess Magazine 1882, 1896.06; Daily Globe, Toronto, 1877.02.24, 1878.06.22, 1879.01.18
Photo: Quebec National Library from 'Le Monde illustre', Vol.10, No.510, p.491, 1894.02.10

David Herder

FIDE Master 2003

Deen Hergott

International Master 1990
Canadian Junior Champion 1982
Canadian Open Champion 1995
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998)
Nine times winner Eastern Ontario Chess Association Grand Prix (1988-9, 1989-90, 1990-1, 1991-2, 1992-3, 1996-7, 1997-8, 1998-9, 1999-2000)
Bronze medal for Alternate 1 at Olympiad 1990 with 7/9 (+5 =4)
1st place, North Bay International Open 1995
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 1991

William Hicks

(1817-99)

Educator
Emigrated from England to establish a successful normal school, 1853
Helped found one of Montreal's first teachers' associations, 1856
Teacher (as of school's founding in 1857), later principal (1870-83), McGill Normal School
Canadian Champion 1874

Source: J. Keith Jobling, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1891-1900 (Volume XII), University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

Andrew Ho

FIDE Master 2003

Walter Holowach

Represented Canada at Olympiad 1939

Edward Holt

(1840-1909)

Played Canadian Championship 1877, 1878, 1879
First place Globe Correspondence Tournament No. 2 1891

A. Hood

First place Canadian Correspondence Tournament 1874-5

Joe Horton

Professor, Computer Science, University of New Brunswick
FIDE Master 1988
Atlantic Canada Champion 1984, 1992, 1996

Henry Howe

(1815-1900)

Canadian Champion 1877

Lefong Hua

FIDE Master 2003
Canadian Under-18 Champion 1997
Canadian Cadet Champion 1996
Canadian Grade 12 Champion 2000
Canadian Grade 10 Champion 1998
Canadian Grade 8 Champion 1996
Canadian Grade 7 Champion 1995
Canadian Grade 5 Champion 1993
Canadian Grade 4 Champion 1992
Canadian Grade 2 Champion 1990
Canadian Grade 1 Champion 1989
Represented Canada World Under-10 1992, Under-12 (1993,1994), Under-16 1996, Under-18 1997 Boys Championships
1st place Charlottetown FIDE Invitational with 10/11

Gregory Huber

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FIDE Master 2004

Joseph Hunt

(1851-1920)

Doctor
Originator of Hunt Opening (1. b4)

Robert Hunter

(1876-1953)

Played Canadian Championship 1908

Goran Ivankovic

FIDE Master

Igor Ivanov

(1947-2005)

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Grandmaster 2005; International Master 1981
Arrived in Canada 1980
Canadian Champion (1981, 1985, 1986, 1987)
Canadian Open Champion (1981, 1984, 1985)
World Open Champion 1981
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1982, 1988)
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1982
Nine times U.S. Grand Prix champion (1982-6,88-90,97)

Here is Igor Ivanov's choice for his favourite game:

Igor Ivanov - Vitaly Zaltsman
New York, NY, USA, 1983

Here are Igor Ivanov's choices for some of his memorable games:

Igor Ivanov - Jan Timman
Olympiad, Canada - Netherlands, Board 1, Lucerne, Switzerland, Round 8, 1982

John van der Wiel - Igor Ivanov
Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Round 1, 1984.09

Igor Ivanov also chose this game as memorable because he beat reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov:

Igor V. Ivanov - Anatoly Karpov
Spartakiad USSR, Uzbekistan - Leningrad, Board 1, Moscow, USSR, 1979, Round 1

George Jackson

Canadian Champion 1875

Martin Jaeger

International Arbiter 1982

Carlos Jauregui

Atlantic Champion 1977
Defeated future World Champion Robert Fischer 1959

Francis Jemmett

(?-1905)

Played Canadian Championship 1897

Glenn Johnstone

FIDE Master 1990
First place, Master category, US Open Championship 1992
6th place Canadian High School Championship 1976

Peter Edmund Jones (Kahkewaquonaby)

(1843-1909)

Physician; probably the first Canadian status Indian to obtain M.D. degree, Queen's 1866
Chief, Mississauga Ojibwa (1874-7, 1880-6); first federal Indian agent to the band (1887-96)
Published, edited the Indian newspaper, 1885-6
Avid chess player

Source: Donald B. Smith, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1901-1910 Volume XIII, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

Lionel Joyner

(1932-2001)

Canadian Champion 1961
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1958
Represented Canada at 1st World Junior Championship 1951
Won Golden Knights Postal Tournament 1961-2

Hans Jung

2nd place Canadian Open 1988
FIDE Master 1999
Gave blindfold simultaneous exhibitions on 8 boards or more over 25 year period (1982-2006)
Gave blindfold simultaneous exhibition on 26 boards 1993

Hans Jung - Andrew Dabrowski
Blindfold Simultaneous Exhibition on 8 boards by Jung, Mississauga, Ontario, 2001.05.03

Hans Jung's choice for his favourite game of his own:

Jay Zendrowski - Hans Jung
City Championship, London, Ontario, 1977, Round 6

Contributor: Hans Jung (game selection, biography)

Miervaldis (Walter) Jursevskis

Artist
Champion of Riga Jurmala, Latvia
Arrived Canada 1948
British Columbia Champion six times (1949-50, 1954-7)
Played Canadian Championship 1951, 1955, 1957 (3rd)

Contributor: Stephen Wright

Dina Kagramanov

Woman FIDE Master 2004
Tied first place Canadian and Ontario Women's Championship 2006
Ontario Women's Champion 2002
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 2002
Represented Canada World Girls Under-18 (1999), Under-14 (2000) Championships
Represented Canada World Youth Rapid Girls Under-12 Championship 1998

Andrew Kalotay

Represented Canada at Olympiad 1966

Joseph Kaltenecker

Played Canadian Championship 1965

Harry Kaminker

FIDE Master 1986
Represented Canada on Group 'B' 1st place team at World Youth Team Championship 1980
Represented Canada at World Youth Team Championship 1978

Ray Kerr

(Ray Krznaric)

Belgrade Champion 1951
Mladost Chess Club Champion 1951
2nd place Ontario Open Championship 1956
1st place Ontario Easter Open 1964
2nd place British Columbia Championship 1965
Played Canadian Championship (1965, 1969)

Marat Khassanov

FIDE Master 1999

Dinara Khaziyeva

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Woman International Master 2004
Canadian Women's Champion 2004
Quebec Women's Champion 1998
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (2002, 2004, 2006)
Represented Canada World Girls Junior Championship 2000
Represented Canada World Girls Under-12 Championship 1998

Natalia Khoudgarian

Woman International Master 1996
Canadian Women's Champion 2006, 2007
Ontario Women's Champion 2006
Represented Canada at Women's World Championship 2006
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (1996, 2006)
Top rated female Canadian at Year-end 12 times in a row (1996-2007)

Neil Kirton

Played Canadian Championship 1978

Samuel Kitces

(1913-99)

Lived Montreal 1920-45; attended McGill University, where he started playing chess; lived Ottawa 1945-1956; then moved to USA
Played Correspondence chess 1940s-1999; played tournaments until 1970s
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1948, 1950

Source: Kitces family

Henry Kittson

(1849-1926)

Played Canadian Championship 1924
First place Cincinnati Commercial Gazette Correspondence Tournament 1882

Robert Kiviaho

Piano player, teacher, arranger
Correspondence International Grandmaster 1984
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1979

Alex Knox

International Arbiter 1994
3rd place Canadian Correspondence Championship 1961
5th place Canadian Correspondence Championship 1958

Timour Koliada

FIDE Master
Canadian Junior Champion 1994
Canadian Junior Blitz Champion 1994

Frank Kollar

Qualified FIDE Master title by rating

Danny Kopec

International Master 1985
University professor
Co-developer with Ivan Bratko of Bratko-Kopec Test at Machine Intelligence Research Unit at University of Edinburgh 1980, which measures the progress of computer chess programs, as well as the playing strength of humans
PhD. U. Edinburgh 1983 in Machine Intelligence
Tought at McGill 83-84, Carleton 92-93
Played Canadian Championship 1984
1st place Scottish Championship 1980,1981
Invented and developed the Kopec System in the Sicilian Defence

Anton Kovalyov

Arrived Canada 2007 from Argentina
International Master 2008
Qualified International Grandmaster title 2008
Played Americas Continental Championship 2005

Tomas Krnan

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International Master 2006
Represented Canada at Olympiad 2006
3rd place Canadian Championship 2004

Slobodan (Bob) Krstic

Represented Hong Kong at Olympiad 1970, 1972
Toronto Champion 1974

Maxim Krupnov

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Qualified FIDE Master title
Champion Tver Region of Russia (1999, 2001)

George Kuprejanov

(1938-91)

Born Panchevo, Yugoslavia
International Master 1972
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1974
Defeated Grandmaster Pal Benko 1971

Murray Kurtz

Correspondence International Master 1999
Won Golden Knights Postal Tournament 1990

Alex Kuznecov

FIDE Master 1985

François-Xavier Lambert

(1833-1920)

Canadian Champion 1884

Cyril Large

Died 2008 at age 93
Organized chess on Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 1960s and 1970s
Organized annual school chess tournaments, which grew to involve 6,625 players from 162 schools by 1976
At age 90 in 2004, still played one game of chess every evening with his wife, aged 95
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2008

Sources: Bulletin 13, 16; Lynn Stringer (conversations 2004.07, Chess Canada Echecs 2004.04 p.16); phone interview by David Cohen with Cyril Large, 2004.07

Joel Lautier

Born Canada, represents France
International Grandmaster 1990
World Junior Champion 1988
World Under-14 Champion 1986

David Lavin

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Agent, The Lavin Agency
International Arbiter 1985
Represented Canada at World Youth Team Championship (1978, 1981)

Here is David Lavin's choice for his best game, as well as a memorable game from the 1970s featuring a 10 move combination starting with 13. e5; and another memorable game which was the only decisive game against Cuba, thereby helping Canada gain a place in the Finals:

David Lavin - Lawrence Day
Toronto Championship, Toronto, Ontario, 1978

David Lavin - Ian Findlay
Toronto Closed Championship, Reserves Section, Toronto, Ontario

David Lavin - Reynaldo Vera
World Youth Team Championship, Mexico City, Mexico, Canada - Cuba, Board 3, Preliminaries Round 3, 1978

Andrew Bonar Law

(1858-1923)

Born Canada; studied, worked Scotland
Member of Parliament, United Kingdom
Leader, Conservative Party, United Kingdom 1911-21
United Kingdom Cabinet posts: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal
Prime Minister, United Kingdom 1922-3
Famous quote: "Chess is a cold bath for the mind."

Eric Lawson

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Canadian Champion 2004
International Master 2004
Represented Canada at Pan-American Championship 2005

Here is the last round game on Board 1 that clinched a tie for first place:

Eric Lawson - Kevin Spraggett
Canadian Championship, Toronto, Ontario, Round 9, 2004.08.29

Stephen Leacock

(1869-1944)

Political economy university lecturer
Humour author
On Canadian stamp 1969

"All chess players think of opening on the Queen's side but never do. Life ends too soon."

"... said ... with a deep sigh. I knew he had been thinking of something that he daren't risk. All chess is one long regret."
- "Pawn to King's Four", short story from "Happy Stories, Just To Laugh At", by Stephen Leacock, 1943

Robert LeBel

Played Canadian Championship 1947

Dudley LeDain

(1900-78)

Chess columnist for Montreal Gazette 1949-78
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1947
Montreal Champion 1924
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Dudley LeDain - H. Kittson
Canadian Championship, Hamilton, Ontario, Round 1, 1924

Vicente Lee Jr.

International Master 2006
2nd place Canadian Championship 2006
Alberta Closed Champion 2006

Manon Léger

Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (1994, 1996)

Roger Lemelin

(1919-92)

Editor, La Presse newspaper
Organized, sponsored grandmaster tournament Montreal 1979

Alexandre Lesiège

International Grandmaster 1997
Three times Canadian Champion (1992, 1999, 2001)
Won Canadian Championship at age 16 (1992)
3rd place Canadian Championship (1994, 2002)
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1993
Represented Canada at World Championship Knockout 2000
Represented Canada at World Championship Knockout Qualifier 1998
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1992, 1998, 2000, 2002)
First place New York, USA 1993; Warwick, Bermuda 1995
Canadian Junior Champion (1990, 1992, 1993)
Canadian Cadet Champion (1987, 1988, 1991)
Represented Canada at World Junior 1990, Cadet (1987, 1988, 1991), Under-14 1989 Championships
1st place, North Bay International Open 1995
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 2001

Here is the game that won Alexandre Lesiège the match to decide the 2001 Canadian Championship:

Alexandre Lesiège - Kevin Spraggett
Canadian Championship match, Brantford, Ontario, Round 3, 2001.09.15

Here is one of Alexandre Lesiège's favourite games:

Alexandre Lesiège - Zdenko Kozul
Croatia Club International, Mississauga, Ontario, 1990

Zoltan Leskowsky

Correspondence International Master 1985
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1969

François Léveillé

FIDE Master 1990
Canadian Champion 1995
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1987

George Levtchouk

FIDE Master 1988

Oleg Linskiy

FIDE Master

Irwin Lipnowski

FIDE Master 1983
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1976
Represented Canada at Pan-American Individual Championship 1974

Adam Littke

FIDE Master 1997
Tied 1st place Canadian Cadet Championship 1990
Canadian Cadet Champion 1989
Canadian Grade 9 Champion 1989
Canadian Junior Blitz Champion 1991

Ron Livshits

International Master 1996
1st place Canadian Championship 2007
Canadian Champion 1995
Canadian Open Champion 1995
Canadian Junior Champion 1991
Tied 1st Canadian Junior Championship 1993
Represented Canada at World Junior Championship (1991, 1993)
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1994, 1996, 2006)
Pan-Am Open Champion 1999

Annabelle Lougheed Freedman

(1899-1986)

Represented Canada at 8th Women's World Championship 1939
Later married Bernard Freedman

Sources: Cross-table, 8th Women's World Chess Championship, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1939, Guinness - Chess: The Records by Ken Whyld, 1986, p.23; Obituary, Toronto Globe & Mail, 1986.04.08.

Daniel MacAdam

(1885-1985)

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Born St. Paul, Minnesota, arrived in Canada 1889
Express messenger for Canadian Pacific Railway
Achieved his ambition of living to age 100; in his lifetime, was the longest lived Canadian chess player (died at 100 years, 5 months, 16 days)
Founder of publication Chess Chat in 1947 (originally Maritime Chess News Bulletin, later Canadian Chess Chat)
Editor of Chess Chat 1947-56
Raised funds for Canadian chess through the Chess Foundation of Canada
Chairman, Chess Foundation of Canada 1967-75
Received Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for contributions in the field of chess 1977
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Contributor: Lynn Stringer

Charles Macdonald

(1828-1901)

Hutton Prize, King's College, Aberdeen, Scotland, for most distinguished scholar, arts curriculum 1850
Professor of mathematics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Source: P. B. Waite, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1901-1910 Volume XIII, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

David MacLeod

Correspondence Senior International Master 1999
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1984
Member Canada's 11th International Correspondence Chess Federation Olympiad Bronze medal team

Donald R. MacLeod

Played Canadian Championship 1881, 1882 (3rd), 1886 (3rd)

Nicholas M. MacLeod

(1870-1965)

Two times Canadian Champion (1886, 1888)
Tied for first in Canadian Championship 1887
Youngest ever Canadian Champion, just past 16th birthday in 1886
Played in the 1889 New York tournament, held to select a challenger to world champion Wilhelm Steinitz; set a record for most losses in one tournament, 31
Only player to beat Emanuel Lasker in simultaneous exhibition, Quebec 1892
Minnesota Champion 1899
Won second Western Chess Association Tournament (later called U.S. Open) 1901
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Nicholas MacLeod - J.W. Baird
New York, NY, USA 1889, Round 21

William D.R. MacLeod

(1869-1941)

2nd place Canadian Championship 1890
Minnesota Champion 1907

John MacPhail

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FIDE Master 1983
Canadian Junior Champion 1973

Elod Macskasy

(1919-90)

Canadian Open Champion 1958
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1964, 1968)

Michael Marantz

(Mikhail Marants)

FIDE Master 1983

Frank Marshall

(1877-1944)

Born USA
Lived in Montreal, Quebec from ages 8-19, where he learned to play chess
Defeated U.S. Champion Harry Pillsbury, who was giving a blindfold simultaneous exhibition in Montreal, 1893
Won Montreal Club Championship 1894
Played Canadian Championship 1894
U.S. Champion 1909-36

Harry Pillsbury - Frank Marshall
Blindfold simultaneous exhibition by Pillsbury, Montreal, Quebec, 1893

Frank Marshall - Robert Short
Montreal Club Championship, Montreal, Quebec, 1894

Marshall's three most famous games, including his introduction of the Marshall Gambit in the Ruy Lopez opening:

Frank Marshall - Amos Burn
Paris, France, 1900

This game contains what Marshall described as 'the most elegant move I have ever played!', giving his last move a '!!!' in his annotations:

Stepan Lewitzky - Frank Marshall
Breslau, Poland, 1912

Jose Capablanca - Frank Marshall
New York, NY, USA, 1918

Source: Marshall's Best Games of Chess (My Fifty Years of Chess) by Frank Marshall, 1942

Anthony (Tony) Marsland

Professor, Computing Science, University of Alberta
President, International Computer Chess Association 1992-99
Programmer of AWIT (formerly WITA), a computer chess program which competed in the North American Computer Championships (1970, 1978-81, 1983-85) and World Computer Championships (1977, 1980, 1983, 1986)
2nd place World Computer Championship 1983 for AWIT

Robert Martin

(1910-78)

Canadian Champion 1933
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1946

Paul Mascarene

(Jean-Paul Mascarene)
(1684/5-1760)

Born France, educated Geneva
Represented Britain as military officer (lieutenant-colonel), administrator (lieutenant governor) of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, where he encouraged the policy of neutrality by Acadians in Cape Breton Island 1720-51

Source: Maxwell Sutherland, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1741-1770 Volume III, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

Fanhao Meng

FIDE Master 2004

Goran Mikanovic

Photo

FIDE Master

Marcel Milat

FIDE Master 2003

Dragoljub Milicevic

British Columbia Champion (1997, 2000-1)

Goran Milicevic

Photo

FIDE Master 1997

The following game won the Brilliancy Prize donated in memory of Bryon Nickoloff:

Goran Milicevic - Mark Bluvshtein
Canadian Championship, Toronto, Ontario, Round 7, 2004.08.26

Charles Millar

(1882-1954)

President, founder, Seaport Agencies; President, British Empire Dock Co. Ltd.
Played Canadian Championship 1951
British Columbia Champion (1931, 1932, 1933, 1937)

Contributor: Stephen Wright, BCCF Bulletin #127, 2007.09.10

Diane Mongeau

Woman International Master 1982
Qualified for Woman International Master title at Canadian Women's Closed and Zonal Championship 1981
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad (1982, 1984, 1990, 2004)

Thomas Moore

Problem composer
Edited first Canadian chess book '100 Gems of Chess', London, Ontario 1872

John Morrison

(1889-1975)

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Five times Canadian Champion (1910, 1913, 1922, 1924, 1926)
Tied for first in Canadian Championship 1931
Board 1 for Canada at the 1939 Olympiad Buenos Aires, Argentina
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Defeated World Championship challenger David Janowski and future World Champion Max Euwe:

John S. Morrison - David Janowski
New York, 1918

John S. Morrison - Max Euwe
London, 1922

Photo: The Book of the London International Chess Congress 1922, edited by W.H. Watts, 1924

Robert Morrison

FIDE Master 1983
Represented Canada on Group 'B' 1st place team at World Youth Team Championship 1980

Leo Moser

(1921-70)

Top Winnipeg, Edmonton player
Alberta champion five times
Won Bernard Freedman Trophy for highest finish by a new entrant in the Canadian Championship 1941

The following last round game won the Brilliancy Prize:

Leo Moser - D. Abraham Yanofsky
Canadian Championship, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1941, Round 11

Moe Moss

(Moskowitch)
(1914-87)

Chess columnist, Montreal Star
Chess promoter; organized 1st Canadian Open Championship 1956
Co-author Blunders and Brilliancies, 1985

Artur Mrugala

Correspondence Senior International Master 2000

Walter Muir

(1905-99)

Born USA to Canadian parents
Correspondence International Master 1971
Eight times Canadian Correspondence Chess Association Champion (1928, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1942)
Author of My 75 Year Chess Career, 1997

M.J. Murphy

James Narraway

(1857-1947)

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Worked in Civil Service, Department of Justice, Government of Canada 45 years (1887 - 1932); Chief Accountant, Registrar
Manager, Bank of Nova Scotia, Moncton and Cambellton, New Brunswick 1887
B.A., University of New Brunswick 1874
Paleontologist; two discoveries on banks of Ottawa River accepted by Royal Ontario Museum and British Museum
Three times Canadian Champion (1893,1897, 1898)
Tied for first in Canadian Championship (1888, 1889)
First place Globe Correspondence Tournament No. 1 1886-8
First place Pillsbury National Correspondence Chess Association Masters' Tournament 1903
Winner 5th North American Correspondence Chess Championship 1918
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Stebbings - James E. Narraway
Saint John, New Brunswick, 1893

This game won a brilliancy prize:

D.J. McKinnon - James E. Narraway
Canadian Championship, Orillia, Ontario, 1897

Photo: British Chess Magazine, 1897, p.299; Toronto Reference Library.
Source: Obituary, Ottawa Citizen, 1947.06.17, p.11.

Leslie Neatby

Professor, Head Classics Department, Acadia University, Nova Scotia
Author In quest of the North West Passage 1958
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1937

Monroe (Monty) Newborn

Computer Science Professor, McGill University
Programmer (originally with George Arnold) of Ostrich (also Ostrich 80, Ostrich 81), a computer chess program which competed in the ACM U.S. Computer Championships (1972-74), ACM North American Computer Championships (1975, 1977-87) and World Computer Championships (1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1986)
2nd place ACM U.S. Computer Championship 1973 for Ostrich
Organized first ACM U.S. Computer Championship 1970, as well as many succeeding championships
President, International Computer Chess Association 1983-86
Applied results obtained from research on search algorithms in the field of computer chess to the field of internet searching
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

A win in the following last round game would have given Ostrich a tie for first place in the 1st World Computer Championship. Unfortunately, the program missed the winning move, 35. Rxh6+, as finding it required a search depth of 19-ply, which was beyond its capabilities. It also missed another winning move, 39. Bf5, which required an 11-ply search.

Ostrich - Kaissa
World Computer Championship, Stockholm, Sweden, Round 4, 1974.08.08

Monty Newborn chose this game, played against the World Champion and defending North American Champion, as the best game of Ostrich's career:

Belle - Ostrich
ACM North American Computer Championship, Dallas, TX, USA, Round 1, 1982.10.24

A last hurrah for the bird, as it crushed the future Deep Blue program:

Chiptest - Ostrich
ACM North American Computer Championship, Dallas, TX, USA, Round 2, 1986.11.03

Source: Kasparov versus Deep Blue (computer chess comes of age) by Monty Newborn, 1997

Bryon Nickoloff

(1956-2004)

International Master 1981
Canadian Champion 1995
Canadian Open Champion (1992, 1995)
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1978, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1998)
Represented Canada at World Youth Team Championship 1978
Pan-Am Open Champion 1999
Drew former World champion Mikhail Botvinnik in a simultaneous exhibition, Toronto, Ontario 1977

Here is one of Bryon Nickoloff's favourite games:

Bryon Nickoloff - Krunoslav Hulak
New York, NY, USA 1989

Nikolay Noritsyn

2007 Canadian Chess Player of the Year
International Master 2007
Canadian Champion 2007 at age 16, second youngest ever
2008 Toronto Closed Champion with perfect score (9/9)
2006 Toronto Open Champion
Toronto Grand Prix Champion (2005, 2006)
2003 Canadian and Ontario Under 12 Champion
2003 Ontario Grade 6 Champion
2002 Ontario Under 12 Champion
2002 Ontario Grade 5 Champion

Peter Nurmi

Represented Canada at Pan-American Individual Championship 1974
Canadian Junior Champion 1975
Represented Canada on Group 'B' Gold medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1977
Represented Canada at World Youth Team Championship 1978
Represented Canada on Group 'B' 1st place team at World Youth Team Championship 1980

Jura Ochkoos

FIDE Master 2003
2005 Toronto Grand Prix Champion

Tom O'Donnell

International Master 1993
Canadian Cadet Champion 1981
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1988, 1990, 1992, 1994)

Haakon Opsahl

Represented Canada at Olympiad 1939
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1935
CCCA Champion 1931

Dianna Palamarek

Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 1990

Claude Paré

Correspondence Senior International Master 1999

Roman Pelts

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Chess teacher, founder of Chess Academy of Canada
FIDE Master 1981
1st place team member on Board 1 at Student Olympiad 1964
Honoured Chess Coach, USSR
Five of his students went on to become International Grandmasters
Official trainer 1971 USSR Student Team which included Karpov, Beliavsky
Arrived Canada 1978
2nd place Canadian Open 1978
Founder of first Canadian chess school 1979
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1982, 1984, 1988)
2nd highest score among masters on Board 4 at Olympiad 1984 (8/11)
Author of Comprehensive Chess Course, Volumes 1&2, 1986
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Here is Roman Pelts' most important game:

Roman Pelts - William Lombardy
World Student Team Championship, USSR - USA, Board 1, Krakow, Poland, 1964

Contributor: Roman Pelts (game selection)
Photo: Copyright 2004 Roman Pelts. Used by permission.

Jonathan Penrose

Born in and represents England, where learned to play chess at age 4
Lived in London, Ontario during World War II, where father Lionel worked
International Master 1961
10 times British Champion (1958-63, 1966-69)
Lecturer in psychology

Here is Jonathan Penrose's win against the reigning World Champion:

Jonathan Penrose - Mikhail Tal
Olympiad, Leipzig, 1960

Lionel Penrose

(1898-1972)

Geneticist, recreational mathematician, endgame composer
Wife of doctor Margaret; father of mathematicians Oliver (still a competitive chess player in 2004) and Roger; and grandmaster Jonathan
Director of Psychiatric Research, Ontario Hospital, London, Ontario, during World War II

Andrew Peredun

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FIDE Master 2003

William Perry

Emil Phaneuf

Played Canadian Championship 1937

Ray Philips

FIDE Master 2001
5th place Canadian Championship 2001

Thomas Phillipps

(1833-1915)

Played Canadian Championship 1874, 1879, 1881

Charles Phillips

Born Canada, lived USA
1st place, Continental Correspondence Tournament 1894

Leon Piasetski

International Master 1975
Canadian Junior Champion 1970
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1974, 1976, 1978, 1988, 1992)
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1990

David Pik

Denis Pineault

Correspondence Senior International Master 1999
Canadian Correspondence Champion (1988, 1990)
North American Correspondence Champion 1992
Member Canada's 11th International Correspondence Chess Federation Olympiad Bronze medal team

Thomas Piper

(1857-1938)

Ship carpenter
Chess columnist
Strongest player on the Pacific coast (Canada and USA) for many years

Contributor: Stephen Wright

Charles Podlone

(1915-77)

William H.K. Pollock

(1859-96)

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Born in England of Irish descent
Educated as a doctor
First place Irish Championship 1885 (9/10), 1886 (8/8)
Travelled to America to play in the 1889 New York tournament which was to select a challenger to World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz
Lived in Canada 1894-5, again in 1896
Represented Canada at Hastings 1895
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Here are three of William Pollock's games, against former World Champion Steinitz, and two World Championship challengers:

Wilhelm Steinitz - William H. K. Pollock
Hastings, Round 6, 1895.08.12

William H.K. Pollock - Siegbert Tarrasch
Hastings, Round 13, 1895.08.21

Isidor Gunsberg - William H.K. Pollock
Hastings, Round 14, 1895.08.23

Photo: British Chess Magazine, 1896, p. 441; Toronto Reference Library

Edwin Pope

(1843-1936)

Canadian Champion 1879
Tied for first in Canadian Championship 1888

John Prentice

(1907-87)

Born Vienna, Austria, arrived Canada 1938
Successful business person; named member of one of Canada's 50 wealthiest families in 1987
Founded Pacific Veneer 1938, which was later merged into Canadian Forest Products and then renamed Canfor; long-time company president
Director of Bank of Montreal
Chairman of Canada Council for 5 years
CFC President 1955-1971
FIDE Representative 1957-1987
FIDE Vice-President
Received Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for contributions in the field of chess 1977
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

John G. Prentice - Elod Macskasy
City Chess Club Open, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1961

Kalev Pugi

(1925-84)

Born Estonia, arrived Canada 1947
Chemical engineer
CFC President 1973-76
Received Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for contributions in the field of chess 1977

Alar Puhm

Born Canada
Represented France at Olympiad 1974, 1976

Arthur Puller

(1833-85)

Vinod (Vinny) Puri

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Medical Doctor, gastroenterologist
FIDE Master 1986
Canadian Junior Champion (1985, 1986, 1987)
6th place, World Junior Championship 1987 (most wins in tournament; highest Canadian placing)

Here is Vinny Puri's choice for one of his best games:

Vinny Puri - Dale Haessel
1985-6 Canadian Junior Championship, Toronto, Ontario, Round 10, 1986.01

Frank Pushkedra

FIDE Master 1983

Zhe Quan

Photo

FIDE Master 2003
Canadian Junior Champion 2004

George Raletich

Played Canadian Championship 1955

Robert Ramsey

(1844-1922)

Problem composer

Joseph Rauch

Played Canadian Championship 1937 (3rd), 1938, 1940 (2nd), 1945, 1946 (4th), 1947 (2nd, undefeated), 1949, 1959
1st place American Chess Federation Championship (later the U.S. Open Championship), "A" Tournament (11.5/12) 1938

Howard Ridout

(1914-2003)

Played Canadian Championship (1946, 1951, 1957)
5th place 1945 Canadian Correspondence Championship
Defeated World Championship Challenger Frank Marshall in simultaneous exhibition by Marshall in Toronto 1933.11.18

Nenad Ristovic

FIDE Master 1992

Henry Robertson

Won first Canadian Correspondence Tournament 1873-4

R.F. (Ron) Rodgers

(?-2001)

Top Ottawa player

Michael Rohland

Canadian Junior Champion 1978

Harry Rombach

Played Canadian Championship 1920 (4th), 1922, 1924 (4th)

Céline Roos

Born France
Woman International Master 1985
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (1980, 1982, 1984, 1988)
Gold medal, Board 2, Olympiad 1984
Translated Nimzovitsch's 'Praxis of My System' from German into French

Here is Céline Roos' choice for a memorable game, played in her best event of the 1990s:

Josef Horvath - Céline Roos
Open, Bischwiller, France, 1997

Herbert Rose

(1883-1961)

David (Dave) Ross

International Master 1999
Canadian Open Champion 1984
Canadian Open Blitz Champion 1997

Paul Ross

FIDE Master 1990
Canadian Cadet Champion 1980

Thomas Roussel-Roozmon

International Master 2004
Represented Canada at Olympiad 2006
Grandmaster Norm at Quebec Open 2007
2nd place, Quebec Open 2007
Represented Canada at World Under-12 Championship 2000 (9th place)
Canadian Under-12 Champion 2000
Canadian Grade 10 Champion 2003
Canadian Grade 9 Champion 2002
Canadian Grade 7 Champion 2000

William Rover

President, Canadian Correspondence Chess Association (1939-59)

Henry Roy

(1875-1953)

Canon
Organizer Canadian Championship 1941

Gary Ruben

Correspondence Senior International Master 2005
Canadian Correspondence Chess Player of the Year 2004
Canadian Correspondence Chess Olympiad Team (2002, 2004, 2006)
Canadian Pan American Team Tournament, Board 1 2003
Correspondence International Arbiter 2001
International Correspondence Chess Federation Tournament Director; directed ICCF World Tournament Higher Class events 1996-2004
Canadian Correspondence Chess Association Executive: Vice-President, Membership Secretary, Tournament Director, CHECK! Editor (mid-1970s - mid-1980s)
President, Scarborough Chess Club 1972-4
Secretary, Ontario Chess Association; Governor, Chess Federation of Canada (mid-1960s - mid-1970s)

Contributor: Gary Ruben (biography)

Abraham Rubinoff

Adrian Russell

Tournament Director, Canadian Championship (1951, 1957)
Long-time active administrator in Vancouver Chess Club, British Columbia Chess Federation, Chess Federation of Canada, Chess Foundation of Canada
Drafted CFC Handbook, Constitution & By-Laws 1962
Chess Federation of Canada member number 1

Isaac Ryall

(1830-1901)

Problem composer
First Secretary of Canadian Chess Association 1872
Organized Hamilton Chess Club Correspondence Tournament 1880-2

Charles-Ephrem Saint-Maurice

Artem Samsonkin

(pronounced Artiom)

Canadian Junior Champion 2008
1st place Canadian Championship 2007
Arrived Canada 2007 from Belarus
International Master 2006
Belarus Under 16 Champion 2004
1st place, Under 2200 (Section B), Tenkes Kupa, Hungary 2001

Edward Sanderson

Canadian Champion (1876, 1882)

Zoltan Sarosy

Correspondence International Master 1988
Canadian Correspondence Champion (1967, 1972, 1981)
1st place, Master Candidates Tournament, Diosgyor, Hungary 1943
Won Chess Club tournaments in different cities in Hungary: Nagykanizsa (Club Ch) 1929; Pecs (Club Ch) 1932; Budapest 1934
Invented the move order: 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 g6 5. d4
Reached age 100 in 2006 while still playing chess by e-mail; in 2007, became longest lived Canadian chess player ever
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2006

Game with Zoltan Sarosy's favourite move:

Leon Kempen - Zoltan Sarosy
Pacific Area Team Tournament 4, Australia - Canada, Board 3, Correspondence, ICCF, 1999

Jeff Sarwer

World Under-10 Champion 1986
U.S. National Elementary Champion, Primary Section, Individual 1986

Julia Sarwer

Top female, World Under-10 Championship 1986

James Sawyer

Joseph Sawyer

(1874-1965)

Canadian Champion 1908

Jonathan Schaeffer

Computer Science Professor
Programmer of Sun Phoenix (also Prodigy, Phoenix), a computer chess program which competed in the North American Computer Championships (1981, 1984-87) and World Computer Championships (1983, 1986)
2nd place North American Computer Championship 1987 for Sun Phoenix
1st place World Computer Championship 1986 for Sun Phoenix
Wrote checkers program CHINOOK

Michael Schleifer

International Master 1999
Canadian Active Champion 1994
Pan-Am Open Champion 1999

John Schleinich

(1924-2004)

International Arbiter 1977

Ludolph Schull

(1834-97)

2nd place Canadian Championship 1881

Mark Schulman

Represented Canada at Olympiad 1968

Paul Selick

Mathematics professor, University of Toronto (1984-)
Instructor, Princeton University, MIT, University of Western Ontario (1977-1984)
Ph.D. in mathematics, Princeton University 1977
From Saint John, New Brunswick
Won Maritime Championships at ages 12,14,15,16
Played Canadian Championship 1972 (6th)
Canadian Go Champion (1978, 1981); represented Canada at 1st, 4th World Amateur Go Championships
Duplicate Bridge Life Master
Enjoys playing strategy games

Here is Paul Selick's choice for his best published game:

Bruce Amos - Paul Selick
Canadian Championship, Toronto, Ontario, Round 7, 1972

Contributor: Paul Selick (biography, game selection)

Harold Seymour

(1890-1945)

Played Canadian Championship 1932

Joseph Shaw

(1834-97)

Canadian Champion 1881
Organized first Canadian Correspondence Championship 1878-80 (first round-robin)

Robert Short

(1844-1927)

Canadian Champion 1890
Played Canadian Championship 1887, 1894, 1899, 1910 (3rd), 1922

Ross Siemms

Represented Canada at Olympiad 1958
Represented Canada at World Junior Championship 1953
First place U.S. Junior Championship 1950
U.S. Junior Open Champion 1954
2nd place Canadian Correspondence Championship 1994

Sandor (Alex) Siklos

(1935-2000)

Correspondence International Master 1968
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1971
1st place, 8th World Correspondence Championship semi-final
First Canadian to participate in the finals of the World Correspondence Championship (8th ICCF World Championship 1975-8)

Here is a victory by Alex Siklos in the World Correspondence Championship over the reigning World Champion:

Yakov Estrin - Alex Siklos
8th World Correspondence Championship Finals, Correspondence, 1975-1981

Contributor: J. Ken MacDonald (game selection)

Malcolm Sim

(1881-1956)

Chess columnist, chess editor Toronto Telegram 1922-56
International Arbiter 1951
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1918
Toronto Champion (1915, 1924)
Chess problem composer
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Hazel Smith

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Woman FIDE Master 2003
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad 2006
Canadian Girls Under-14 Champion 2005
Canadian Girls Under-12 Champion 2003
Played Canadian Women's Championship (2001, 2004), Canadian Championship 2004
Canadian Girls Under-10 Champion (2000,2001)
Represented Canada Girls Under-10 World Championship 2000, 2001 (9th place, played on Board 1 three times, including 1 win)
Represented Canada Girls Under-12 World Championship 2003
Represented Canada Girls Under-14 World Championship 2005 (9th place)

Magnus Smith

(1869-1934)

From Winnipeg
Three times Canadian Champion (1899, 1904, 1906)
Defeated Harry N. Pillsbury in a simultaneous exhibition in Winnipeg, 1899 and World Champion Emanuel Lasker in a simultaneous exhibition in Winnipeg on June 11, 1907
Inventor of the Magnus Smith trap in the Sicilian Defence
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Stephen Francis Smith

(?-1928)

Born Ontario 1860 or 1861
Doctor
Vancouver CC Champion 1915
Challenged Sydney Gale to Canadian Championship match 1920 (abandoned by Gale after +1 -1)
Represented Canada at Olympic Games Tournament, Paris 1924
On behalf of Canada signed document founding FIDE 1924
Long-time member City of London Chess Club, England; Club Champion 1895
Competed minor sections of British Championships, Hastings
Defeated future World Champion Max Euwe, Hastings Victory Congress 1919

Defeated Women's World Champion Vera Menchik:

Stephen F. Smith - Vera Menchik
Hastings 1927-8, Hastings, England, 1927

Source: Stephen Wright, BCCF Bulletin 105, 2006.10.05

Josef Smolij

Played Canadian Championship 1959
Played speed chess every night, all night, in Toronto at the chess tables on Gould Street, corner Yonge Street, from about 1977 through 1985 for $0.50/game (later $1/game)
Famous opening: Smash-Crash Gambit (Greco Counter-Gambit/Latvian Gambit); adopted by IM David Levy in his loss against Chess 4.7, match, Toronto, 1978 after Smolij and Levy played blitz chess the night before
Famous claims: World's fastest chess player; 50,000 chess games played
Famous quotes: "I'm poor in the pocketbook but rich in the mind."; "Kill as you go!"; "Show no mercy!"
Character in Canadian edition of 'Kicking Tomorrow' by Daniel Richler based on Smolij as a tribute

Sources: Toronto Star, 1982.10.10 Sun.,p.A3; 1983.11.14 Mon.,p.B11; 1984.05.12 Sat.,p.A4; 1985.03.13 Wed.,p.A6; 1985.09.14 Sat.,p.A6.
'Chess 4.7 versus David Levy - The Computer Beats a Chess Master', by J.R. Douglas, BYTE, 1978.12, p.84-90.
Frances Sendbuehler, Master's thesis, University of Montreal, 1995

Todd Southam

(1969-96)

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FIDE Master 1990
Canadian Junior Champion 1988
Canadian Cadet Champion (1983, 1984)
Canadian Junior Blitz Champion 1989
Played Canadian Championship 1991
International Master Norm 1993
Represented Canada at World Cadet (1983,1984) and World Junior 1988 Championships
Ontario High School Champion 1985
Toronto Closed Champion (1985, 1990)

Tyler Johnson - Todd Southam
Canadian Cadet Championship, Calgary, Alberta, 1983.03

Bryon Nickoloff - Todd Southam
Toronto Championship, Toronto, Ontario, 1985

Gary Basanta - Todd Southam
Canadian Junior Championship playoff, Round 2, 1988.01

Todd Southam - Paul Motwani
Luxembourg, Round 3, 1990

Todd Southam - Jacques Cote
International Open, North Bay, Ontario, 1996

Paul Spinath

Correspondence International Master 1992

Grant Spraggett

FIDE Master

Kevin Spraggett

International Grandmaster 1985
World Open Champion 1983
New York Open Champion 1984
Commonwealth Champion 1985
Seven times Canadian Champion (1984, 1986, 1989, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2002)
Eight times Canadian Open Champion (1983, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000)
Tied first place Canadian Junior Championship 1974
Canadian Closed Blitz Champion 1996
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal (1985, 1990)
Represented Canada at World Championship Candidates tournament 1985
Represented Canada at World Championship Candidates matches (1988, 1989)
Represented Canada at World Championship Knockout (1997, 1999)
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1986, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002)
Silver medal, Board 2, Olympiad 2000
First Canadian to have published FIDE rating of at least 2600 (2610 in 2006.10)
Highest rated Canadian ever on FIDE Rating List (2633 in 2007.01, ranked 80th)
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 25 times (1980, 1982-90, 1992-2000, 2002-7)
Canadian Chess Player of the Year (1979, 2006)
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Here are three of Kevin Spraggett's favourite games:

Akiba Rubinstein - Esteban Canal
Rogatska Slatina, Slovenia, 1929

Mikhail Tal - Efim Geller
URS Ch, Riga, Latvia, 1958

Mikhail Tal - Hans-Joachim Hecht
Olympiad, Varna, Bulgaria 1962

Contributor: Kevin Spraggett (game selection)

Nava (Shterenberg) Starr

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Woman International Master 1978
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (1976, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2006)
Represented Canada on Group B 1st place team at Women's Olympiad 1976
Represented Canada at Women's World Championship 2001
Represented Canada at Women's Interzonal (1978, 1982, 1985, 1990, 1993)
Canadian Women's Champion (1978, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1995, 2001)
2nd place Canadian Women's Championship 1996
Gold medal, Board 2, Olympiad 1976
Bronze medal, Board 1, Olympiad 1982
Top rated female Canadian at Year-end 20 years in a row (1976-95)
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2001

Pia Cramling - Nava Shterenberg
Women's Olympiad, Sweden - Canada, Board 1, Lucerne, Switzerland, Round 14, 1982

Christian Stevens

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FIDE Master 2004
Canadian Grade 8 Champion 2001

Drew Stoll

(d.1996)

Correspondence International Master 1987

Raymond Stone

FIDE Master 1986
Team member, Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Champion 1974
Represented Canada as Alternate 1 on Group 'B' Gold medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1977; Gold medal for Board prize
Represented Canada at World Youth Team Championship 1978
Canadian Champion 1985
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1986
2nd place, US Open Championship 1992

Lynn Stringer

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International Arbiter 2003
Organized, directed Canadian Championships: Women's (1978) and Cadet (1985, 1991, 1997)
Directed Canadian Championship 2002
Played Canadian Women's Championship 1975, 1978, 1981
Chess Foundation Trustee
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2004

Here is Lynn Stringer's choice for her most memorable game, the only game her opponent lost while winning the event:

Lynn Stringer - Bob van Zweeden
Comox Valley Open, Courtenay, British Columbia, Round 2, 1982.02.06

Contributor: Lynn Stringer (game selection), Stephen Wright
Source: B.C. Chess Reports 2/1
Photo: Copyright 2004 Lynn Stringer. Used by permission.

Charles Stubbs

(1853-1907)

Cashier, Saint John Globe newspaper
Problem composer, publisher of three problem collections
Chess columnist, Saint John Globe; published 2,757 problems from 1883-1907

Duncan Suttles

Software developer
President, Chief Technologist of Magnetar Games
International Grandmaster 1973
Correspondence International Grandmaster 1982
Canadian Champion 1969
Canadian Open Champion 1973
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal (1967, 1970)
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1982, 1984)
Represented Canada on Bronze medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1971
First place in Group B at World Junior Championship 1965
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 7 times (1969, 1973-7, 1981)
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Here are 12 of Duncan Suttles' most memorable games, selected by him in 1972-73 in Chess Canada:

Gyozo Forintos - Duncan Suttles
Olympiad, Tel Aviv, Israel, Final Round 10, 1964

Luis M.O. Bronstein - Duncan Suttles
World Junior Championship, Barcelona, Spain, Preliminary, 1965

Duncan Suttles - William Addison
U.S. Championship, New York, 1965.12

Lothar Zinn - Duncan Suttles
Olympiad, Havana, Cuba, Preliminary Round 3, 1966

Milan Matulovic - Duncan Suttles
Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 4, 1967

Duncan Suttles - Viktor Kortchnoi
Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 13, 1967

Duncan Suttles - Aivars Gipslis
Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 15, 1967

Bent Larsen - Duncan Suttles
Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 20, 1967

Duncan Suttles - Wolfgang Pietzsch
Canada - East Germany, Olympiad, Lugano, Final Round 7, 1968

Duncan Suttles - Bent Larsen
Olympiad, Lugano, Final Round 8, 1968

Duncan Suttles - Lev Polugaevsky
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Round 5, 1969

Zvonko Vranesic - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Championship playoff, Round 4, 1969

Lawrence Day's memorable games, from his Retrospective, 1999, include several by Suttles:

Bent Larsen - Duncan Suttles, Interzonal, Sousse, Tunisia, Round 20, 1967
Duncan Suttles - Wolfgang Pietzsch, Canada - East Germany, Olympiad, Lugano, Final Round 7, 1968

Pal Benko - Duncan Suttles
US Open, Boston, 1964

Lawrence Day - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Open, Scarborough, 1964, Round 2

Lawrence Day - Duncan Suttles
Canadian Championship, Pointe Claire, Quebec, 1969

Larry Evans - Duncan Suttles
San Antonio, 1972

Bruce Harper's favourite game is one by Suttles:

Istvan Bilek - Duncan Suttles
Venice, Italy, 1974

Here is a game from the tournament that earned Duncan Suttles his Correspondence Grandmaster title:

Duncan Suttles - Matyas Berta
Heilimo Memorial, Correspondence, 1982

Sources: Duncan Suttles (game selection published in Chess Canada, November, December 1972; January, February, March, May 1973); Lawrence Day (game selection from his Retrospective, 1999)

Contributors: Bruce Harper (game selection), J. Ken MacDonald (game selection)

David Swales

Strong Toronto club player
Defeated Sydney Gale, Isaac Kashdan, Boris Kostic, Frank Marshall in exhibitions
Played Canadian Championship 1934, 1935

Source: Catherine Swales Ali

Gordon Taylor

FIDE Master 1983
Canadian Open Champion 1982
Represented Canada at Olympiad 1990
Represented Canada as Board 3 on Group 'B' Gold medal winning team at World Students' Team Championship 1977; Gold medal for Board prize

John (Jack) Monteith Taylor

(1907-74)

Played Canadian Championship 1945, 1951, 1953
British Columbia Champion 1929, 1930, 1938, 1945, 1953

Source: Lyle McClelland's Taylor family genealogy

Eduardo Teodoro IV

FIDE Master 1997
Canadian Cadet Champion (1992, 1994)
Canadian Junior Champion 1996

Yan Teplitsky

International Master 1996
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1996, 2002, 2004)
Bronze medal, Board 4, Olympiad 2002

Ivan Theodorovitch

(Ivan Suk)

Born Ukraine, arrived Canada 1949
Ontario Champion 1955
3rd place Canadian Championship 1955, where he won games with two openings he pioneered: 1. e4 e5 2. d3; and 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5

Jules Thérien

Played Canadian Championship 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1943 (3rd), 1947, 1949
Established Canadian simultaneous blindfold record with 6 games in Toronto 1936

William Thomas

(c.1799-1860)

Born Britain; emigrated to Toronto 1843
Leading architect; designed St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto, and many religious, civic, commercial and residential buildings in Southern Ontario
Source: Neil Einarson, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1851-1860 Volume VIII, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

Alan Tomalty

Author of 'Komputer Korner' column in En Passant magazine 1986-2000

O. Trempe

Dimitri Tyomkin

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International Grandmaster 2000
3rd place Canadian Championship 2004
European Under 20 Champion 1997
Israel Under 20 Champion 1997
1st place, Chess'n Math Association Futurity 2 2002
1st place, North Bay International Open 1998
Canadian Open Champion (1998, 2004)
Represented Canada at Olympiad 2004

Here is Dimitri Tyomkin's choice for one of his most memorable games:

Dimitri Tyomkin - Krishnan Sasikiran
Master Open Tournament, Biel, Switzerland, Round 3, 1999.07.22

Alexander Ugge

Correspondence Grandmaster 2005
Won 22nd World Correspondence Championship Candidates tournament, Section 1
Representing Canada in 21st World Correspondence Championship Final

Yaaqov Vaingorten

Qualified FIDE Master title 2004
Canadian Junior Champion 2001

Povilas (Paul) Vaitonis

(1911-83)

Born Uzpaliai, Lithuania, arrived Canada 1948
Represented Lithuania at Olympiads (1933, 1935, 1937, 1939)
International Master 1952
Two times Canadian Champion (1951, 1957)
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1954, 1958)
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1952

Henry Vercoe

(1840-85)

Leading player, Seaforth, Ontario, 1870s

Frank Veszely

Played Canadian Championship 1965

Vahagn Voskanyan

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FIDE Master 1993

Zvonko Vranesic

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
International Master 1969
Correspondence International Master 1973
Tied 1st place Canadian Championship 1969
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1964, 1966, 1970, 1972, 1980)
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal 1964
Grandmaster Norm at Olympiad 1970
Co-developer (provided chess input) of Chute 1 (later Chute 1.2), a computer chess program which competed in the North American Computer Championships (1974-77) and World Computer Championship 1977

Smilja Vujosevic

Woman International Master 1977
Born Yugoslavia, arrived Canada 1967
Bookkeeper, now retired
Woman's board on Belgrade Partizan team, many times Yugoslav team champion
Canadian Women's Champion from best Women's result at Canadian Open 1970, 1973
Canadian Women's Champion 1975
2nd place Canadian Women's Championship 1989
Best Women's result at Canadian Open 1976, 1988, 1991, 1993
Represented Canada at Women's Olympiads (1974, 1976, 1990, 1992, 1994)
Represented Canada on Group B 1st place team at Women's Olympiad 1976
Bronze medal, Board 1, Women's Olympiad 1976
Represented Canada at Women's Interzonal 1976
Top rated female Canadian at Year-end 3 years in a row (1973-5)

Smilja Vujosevic's choice for her best game:

Smilja Vujosevic vs. Milunka Lazarevic
Canada vs. Yugoslavia, Women's Olympiad, Medellin, Columbia, Board 1, 1974

Two games which illustrate Smilja Vujosevic's style:

Milinka Merlini - Smilja Vujosevic
France - Canada, Women's Olympiad, Haifa, Israel, Board 1, 1976

Smilja Vujosevic - Nava Starr
Canadian Women's Championship, Scarborough, Ontario, 1989

Contributor: Smilja Vujosevic (biography, game selection)

Milan Vukadinov

(1936-2002)

Represented Canada at Olympiad 1980

Robert Wachtel

Played on University of Toronto team

Edward (Ted) Wainwright

Played Canadian Championship 1937, 1938

Yamei Wang

Woman FIDE Master 2004
Canadian Girls Under 14 Champion 2000

William Wetherald

(1820-98)

Educator, preacher
Founded Rockwood Academy

"Wetherald's calm approach was demonstrated when, during the same period, a noisy camp meeting near his home was disturbing his pondering of a chess problem. A local youth who was particularly affected by the emotion of the moment burst in upon him exclaiming, 'Mr. Wetherald, rouse yourself! We are all going straight to perdition!' Wetherald answered with dry humour, 'Well, if that is the case we may as well go quietly.'"

Source (biography, quote): Kathleen M. S. Hertzberg, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1891-1900 Volume XII, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

John White

(1834-91)

Played Canadian Championship 1874, 1877 (4th), 1879 (2nd)

Kenneth Whitfield

(1902-83)

Played Canadian Championship 1924, 1926, 1927, 1929 (6th), 1931 (5th), 1932, 1934
CCCA Champion 1927
Ontario Correspondence Champion 1926, 1927

Kurt Widmann

Correspondence Senior International Master 1999
Canadian Correspondence Champion 1985
Member Canada's 11th International Correspondence Chess Federation Olympiad Bronze medal team

Leo Williams

Manager, power engineering
Holds Canadian record for a blindfold simultaneous exhibition: 27 opponents Baie-Comeau, Quebec, 1986.11.15, 18.75 hours, +16 =9 -2
Previous Canadian records for blindfold simultaneous exhibitions 22 boards, Montreal, 1973.02, +17 =3 -2, 11.5 hours; 25 boards, Montreal, 1982.07.15, +21 =3 -1, 16 hours
Chess columnist, Le Devoir; author, Cine Chess magazine

Leo Williams - Claude Hudon
Blindfold Simultaneous Exhibition by Williams on 27 boards, Baie-Comeau, Quebec, 1986.11.15

Here is Leo Williams' selection for several of his better games:

Leo Williams - D. Anastasiadis
La Presse Internationale, Montreal, Quebec, 1973

Leo Williams - Julio Kaplan
World Open, New York, NY, USA, Round 9, 1974.07.07

Leo Williams - Duncan Suttles
International Open, Vancouver, British Columbia, Round 2, 1975.05

Leo Williams - Jean Hébert
Quebec, 1974

J. Noel Williams

5th place Canadian Championship 1959

Laird Wilson

Stanley Wilson

(1881-1960)

Top Montreal player
Played Canadian Championship (1922, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1935, 1943)
CCCA Champion 1937
Designed CFC logo

William N. Wilson

(1912-73)

Played Canadian Championship 1936

W.O. Wilson

William Winfrey

(1876-1956)

Played Canadian Championship 1922

Ken Winterton

(1919-98)

Top Ottawa player

Laszlo (Leslie) Witt

(1933-2005)

International Master 1969
Canadian Open Champion 1962 with a perfect score
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1964, 1966, 1970)

John (Jack) Woodbury

Thomas Workman

(1813-89)

Irish; emigrated to Montreal 1827
Merchant, owner largest Canadian wholesale hardware house
Banker, President Molson's Bank
President, Sun Mutual Life Insurance Company of Montreal 1871-89
Member of Parliament, 1867-72, 1875-8

Source: Gerald J. J. Tulchinsky, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1881-1890 (Volume XI), University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

Fred Wren

(1900-78)

American; U.S. Vice-consul in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Maritime Champion 1941, 1945
Played Canadian Championship (1940, 1943)
Contributor to Chess Life, Chess Review, Canadian Chess Chat

Siegfried Wreschner

(1899-1956)

Played Canadian Championship 1947

John Wright

Correspondence Senior International Master 1999
Canadian Correspondence Champion (1972, 1976, 1977)
North American Correspondence Champion 1984
Member Canada's 11th International Correspondence Chess Federation Olympiad Bronze medal team

Contributor: Joe Deidun Jr.

D. Abraham Yanofsky

(1925-2000)

Born Brody, Poland; arrived in Canada 1925
Law degree, Oxford University 1953
Lawyer
City councillor, mayor of West Kildonan, Manitoba
City councillor, chairman finance committee Winnipeg, Manitoba
Officer of the Order of Canada 1972
First Grandmaster who grew up and learned to play chess in the British Commonwealth
International Grandmaster 1964
International Arbiter 1977
Eight times Canadian Champion (1941, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1953, 1959, 1963, 1965)
Canadian Champion at age 16 (1941)
Canadian Open Champion 1979
British Champion 1953
U.S. Open Champion 1942
Canadian Major Champion 1936
Canadian Senior Boys Champion 1936
Represented Canada at World Championship Interzonal (1948, 1962)
Represented Canada at Olympiads (1939, 1954, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1980)
Highest percentage score on Board 2 at Olympiad 1939 (+12 =3 -1)
First place in Ventnor City, USA 1942; Reykjavik, Iceland 1947; Hastings, England 1953
Author of Chess the Hard Way 1953, How to Win End-games 1957, 100 Years of Chess in Canada 1967
Top rated Canadian at Year-end 13 times (1954, 1956-7, 1961-6, 1968, 1970-2)
Canadian Chess Hall of Fame 2000

Defeated future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik and drew future World Champion Robert Fischer:

D. Abraham Yanofsky - Mikhail Botvinnik
Groningen, Netherlands, Round 15, 1946

Robert Fischer - D. Abraham Yanofsky
Nethanya, Israel, Round 12, 1968

D. Abraham Yanofsky's most famous game, and the most famous game played by a Canadian:

D. Abraham Yanofsky (Canada) - A. I. Dulanto (Peru)
Olympiad, Board 1, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Preliminary Round 7, 1939.08.30

Source: The Games of D.A. Yanofsky by David J. Ross, 1985

Harry Yanofsky

U.S. Inter-collegiate Champion 1946

Frank Yerhoff Jr.

(1918-99)

Canadian Champion 1945
Canadian Correspondence Champion (1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945)
CCCA Champion 1938

Contributor: Knut Neven

John (Jack) Yoos

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FIDE Master 2003
Represented Canada at Olympiad 2000
Board 1, University of Minnesota, Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Champions 1992

Yuanling Yuan

Woman FIDE Master 2008
2nd place Pan-American Women's Championship 2008
Represented Canada at World Under-10 Girls Championship 2003 (10th place)
Toronto and Ontario High School Champion 2007 (while in Grade 7)
Toronto Junior Champion 2007

Elias Zakon

Ignas Zalys

Top Montreal player
Won Golden Knights Postal Tournament 1952-3

Richard Ziegler

History and political researcher
Author, Reclaiming the Canadian Left, 2007
2nd place, 5th Canadian Junior Championship 1975-6

William Zombori

Played Canadian Championship 1938

Igor Zugic

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International Master 2000
Canadian Champion 2006
3rd place Canadian Championship 2004
Represented Canada at World Championship 2007 (0.5-1.5 vs. Michael Adams, World Cup 2007)
Represented Canada at Pan-American Championship 2005
Represented Canada at Olympiads (2000, 2004, 2006)
Grandmaster Norms at New York 2000, CMA Futurity IV 2003
Canadian Under-18 Champion 1996
Canadian Grade 12 Champion 1999
Canadian Grade 9 Champion 1996
Pan-Am Blitz Champion 1999
Represented Canada at World Under-18 Boys Championship (1996, 1998)
1st place, Guelph Pro-Am International Open 2005

Robert Zuk

FIDE Master 1984

Canadian Chess Topics

Canadian Correspondence Chess Association

Founded 1921
Organizes postal chess and chess by e-mail

Chess Federation of Canada

Founded 1872 as Canadian Chess Association
Reformed 1932 as Canadian Chess Federation
Renamed 1945 as CFC

Chess Foundation of Canada

Established at the Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)'s 1955 Annual Meeting, through a motion by Baillargeon/Bergevin, as a Permanent Trust Fund of the CFC
First Chairman was Bernard Freedman
Accepts charitable donations for chess
Principal is not spent, income is given to CFC

Chess'n Math Association

Non-profit organization for teaching chess in schools

David Levy's bet

David Levy made a bet in 1968 that no computer program would beat him in a match within a decade. Over time, the bet grew in size to nearly $10,000, as new parties joined in. In 1977.04, International Master Levy beat Chess 4.6 1-0 in a two game match. At the end of 1977, Levy beat KAISSA 1-0 in a two game match at McGill University. In 1978.08.23, Levy beat MACHACK/CHEOPS 1-0 in a two game match at Cambridge, MA, USA. To settle the bet, Levy played a six game match against Chess 4.7 at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto from 1978.08.26-09.04.

Game one was the first draw achieved by a computer program against an IM under tournament conditions (40 moves in 2 hours, followed by 20 moves per hour).

Levy recovered to win games two and three. Needing only a draw to win the bet, Levy took a chance with some risky play in game four. This was the first win achieved by a computer program against an IM under tournament conditions.

Game five was the final game of the match, and it won Levy the match 3.5-1.5 and the bet.

Famous Canadians

These famous Canadians have taken chess seriously at some time in their lives - some have even competed in tournaments.

Sid Belzberg - 3rd place Calgary and Alberta Junior Championships 1976
George Casey - Member of Parliament; played Canadian Championship 1881, 1884
Tony Clement - Ontario Cabinet Minister; mentioned chess ambitions in his high school yearbook
Walter de Havilland (1872-1968) - patent lawyer, professor, author of a book on the game of go, father of actresses Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (her search for him ended when she tracked him down at the Victoria Chess Club)
Lennox Lewis - Olympic Gold Medal in boxing for Canada 1988; World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1992-4, 1997-2001, 2001-4
Bernard Lord - Premier, New Brunswick
Marnie McBean - 3-time Olympic Gold Medal rower
Henry Morgentaler - Medical Doctor
Dave Sim - creator 'Cerebus the Aardvark', writer / artist Cerebus No. 1-300; played chess 'every lunch hour ... in high school' ["Dave Sim Interview" by Craig Miller and John Thorne, Following Cerebus (Win-Mill Productions, Arlington, TX, USA), p.12, Vol.1, No.1, 2004.07.]

Grand Manan

First tournament in Canada in which a Canadian could achieve a Grandmaster norm
Double round robin won by GMs Yasser Seirawan, Anatoly Lein (6.5/10) ahead of GM John van der Wiel (6); and Canadians Igor Ivanov, Lawrence Day (5) and Robert Hamilton (1)

John van der Wiel - Igor Ivanov
Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Round 1, 1984.09

Guelph Pro-Am International Open 2002-5

2005 Abhijit Kunte, Sergei Shipov, Igor Zugic (6.5/9, 35 players)
2004 Alexander Moiseenko (7.5/9, 30 players)
2003 Alexei Barsov, Tomas Hutters (7/9, 38 players)
2002 Nikolai Legky (7.5/9, 49 players in top section)

McGill University

Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Champions 1969
Hosted Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship 1969

Montreal 1979

10 player double-round robin, 1979.04.11-05.06
Anatoly Karpov, Mikhail Tal 12; Lajos Portisch 10.5; Ljubomir Ljubojevic 9; Boris Spassky, Jan Timman 8.5; Vlastimil Hort, Robert Huebner, Lubomir Kavalek 8; Bent Larsen 5.5

Roger Lemelin beauty prizes

1st:
Boris Spassky - Mikhail Tal
Terre des Hommes, Montreal, Quebec, Round 10, 1979.04.24

2nd:
Anatoly Karpov - Bent Larsen
Terre des Hommes, Montreal, Quebec, Round 12, 1979.04.27

Montreal International 2000-7

Round Robins with chances for Canadians to obtain FIDE title norms.

2007 Vassily Ivanchuk (7/9)
2006 A: Pavel Eljanov (6.5/9); B: Alexander Huzman (6.5/9)
2005 Victor Mikhalevski (8/11)
2004 A: Efimenko, Zahar (7.5/11); B: Alexandre Lesiège (8/11)
2003 Eduardas Rozentalis (8.5/11)
2002 Jean-Marc Degraeve (8.5/11)
2001 Alexandre Lesiège (8/11)
2000 Eduardas Rozentalis, Sergei Smagin (8.5/11)

North Bay International Open 1994-9

1999 Lawrence Day, Jesus Nogueiras, Vladimir Lazarev, Ronald Burnett, Normunds Miezis, Alexander Kalinin (6.5/9, 67 players)
1998 Sergey Kudrin, Alexander Ivanov, Jesus Nogueiras, Dragan Kosic, Dimitri Tyomkin (6.5/9, 65 players)
1997 Grigory Serper, Sergey Kudrin (7/9, 59 players)
1996 Ivan Morovic Fernandez, Patrick Wolff (7/9, 79 players)
1995 Deen Hergott, Bent Larsen, Alexandre Lesiège (6/9, 61 players in top section)
1994 Alexey Yermolinsky (6.5/8, 269 players in 6 sections)

Ribbit

Computer chess program written at the University of Waterloo by Ron Hansen, Jim Parry, Russell Crook
Canadian Computer Champion 1974
ACM U.S. Computer Champion 1974
Tied 2nd place World Computer Championship 1974
2nd place North American Computer Championship 1975 (as Tree Frog)

Here is the final round game which won Ribbit the ACM U.S. Championship with a perfect score:

Ribbit - Chess 4.0
ACM U.S. Computer Championship, San Diego, CA, USA, Round 4, 1974.11.12

University of Toronto

Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Champions (1965, 1973, 1974, 1980, 1981, 1982)
Hosted Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship (1971, 1999)

University of Waterloo

Top 1900-2000 team, Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship 1982
Top Class A team, Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship 1983
Hosted Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship, Kitchener 1984

Visiting masters

Alexander Alekhine

(1892-1946)

Future World Champion Alekhine visited Toronto, Ontario, 1924, drawing Maurice Fox and Sydney Gale and defeating John Morrison:

Alexander Alekhine - John Morrison
Toronto, Ontario, 1924

Mikhail Botvinnik

(1911-95)

Former World Champion Botvinnik gave simultaneous exhibitions in Montreal, Quebec, scoring +14 =6 (including a draw with Jean Hébert), and Toronto, Ontario, scoring +12 =7 -1 (including a draw with Bryon Nickoloff), in 1977

Jose Capablanca

(1888-1942)

Future World Champion Capablanca visited Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1912.06

Machgielis (Max) Euwe

(1901-81)

Former World Champion Euwe gave simultaneous exhibitions in 1949.01 in Montreal (+35, =4, -3) and Toronto (+48, =7, -6; +43, =6, -3)

Larry M. Evans

From USA
International Grandmaster 1957
Canadian Open Champion (1956, 1966)
2nd place Canadian Open 1958

Robert Fischer

Future World Champion Fischer finished 8th place Canadian Open 1956

Ed Formanek

Represents USA
Studied in Ottawa in 1970s
International Master 1977

Valeria Gansvind

Woman FIDE Master; represents Estonia
Highest rated female resident of Canada 2002-5

Kiril Georgiev

From Bulgaria
International Grandmaster
World Junior Champion 1983
Played Montreal, Ottawa (1st place Eastern Ontario Open, simultaneous exhibition) 1985

Arkady Gilman

Played Chess'n Math Association Futurity III, Montreal 2003 (6th place)

Nicolai Jasnogrodsky

(1859-1914)

Gave 8 board exhibition at Yarmouth 1901 against local chess club members, scoring over-the-board +6, blindfold against the best 2 players +1 =1

Paul Keres

(1916-75)

From Estonia
International Grandmaster 1950
Won the last tournament of his career at Vancouver, 1975

George Koltanowski

Blindfold simultaneous exhibitions in Montreal, Toronto 1938; Vancouver 1946, 1953, 1955
Set record for blindfold simultaneous exhibition for player age 50+, 12 boards (+7 -2 =3), Vancouver, 1955

Ilias Kourkounakis

Represents Greece
Studied in Toronto in 1980s
International Master

Anatoly Karpov

World Champion Karpov won Montreal 1979

Gary Kasparov

World Champion Kasparov gave simultaneous exhibition at Upper Canada College, Toronto, Ontario 1998, scoring 12/12

Martin Kreuzer

Represents Germany
Mathematics professor
Post-doctoral fellow at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 1989-91 FIDE Master
Correspondence International Grandmaster; made one of the norms in Berthold von Massow Memorial-A while in Canada

Here are two of Martin Kreuzers favourite games:

Martin Kreuzer - Robert Hamilton
Canadian Open, Edmundston, New Brunswick, Round 8, 1990.07

Werner Metz - Martin Kreuzer
Berthold von Massow Memorial-A, Correspondence, 1988-95

Bent Larsen

From Denmark
International Grandmaster 1956
Canadian Open Champion (1968, 1970)
Won Winnipeg 1967
1st place, North Bay International Open 1995

Two of Larsen's choice for his best 50 games were against Canadians:

Bent Larsen - Lionel Joyner
1st World Junior Championship, Birmingham, England, 1951

Zvonko Vranesic - Bent Larsen
Interzonal, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Round 12, 1964

Source: Larsen's Selected Games of Chess 1948-69 by Bent Larsen, 1970

Edward Lasker

(1885-1981)

From USA
International Master 1963

Emanuel Lasker

(1868-1941)

World Champion Lasker gave a simultaneous exhibition in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1907.06.11, scored +12 -2, losing to Magnus Smith, R.W. Worsley

William Lombardy

From USA
International Grandmaster 1960
Canadian Open Champion 1956

Geza Maroczy

(1870-1951)

From Hungary
International Grandmaster 1950
Visited Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1906

Harry Pillsbury

(1872-1906)

U.S. Champion Pillsbury gave a blindfold simultaneous exhibition in Montreal, Quebec, 1893
Gave simultaneous exhibition in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1899, scored +20 -3, losing to H.R. Pattinson, S.D. Morris, Magnus Smith

Sophia Polgar

International Master, Woman Grandmaster; represents Hungary
Highest rated female resident of Canada 2006

Kamel Skalli

(variation: Kamul)

FIDE Master
Represented Morocco at Olympiads (1984, 1986, 1988, 1994)
Pilot for Royal Air Maroc

Boris Spassky

World Champion Spassky won Canadian Open Champion 1971

Wilhelm Steinitz

(1836-1900)

World Champion Steinitz played 16 in a simultaneous exhibition at the Montreal Chess Club, Montreal, Quebec, 1893.11.13.

Wilhelm Steinitz - Frank Marshall
Simultaneous exhibition, Montreal, Quebec, 1893.11.13

Mikhail Tal

(1936-92)

Former World Champion Tal won Montreal 1979, World Blitz Championship 1988

Robert G. Wade

Born New Zealand
New Zealand Champion (1943-44, 1944-45, 1947-48)
British Champion (1952, 1970)
Represented Britain at Olympiads (1954,1956,1958,1960,1962)
International Master 1950
International Arbiter 1958
Order of the British Empire 1979
7th place Canadian Championship 1947
Toured Canada in 1947 giving simultaneous exhibitions solo and in tandem with D. Abraham Yanofsky

Winnipeg 1967

10 player round robin
Klaus Darga, Bent Larsen 6; Paul Keres, Boris Spassky 5.5; Pal Benko 5; Florin Gheorghiu, Laszlo Szabo 4.5; Alexander Matanovic 4; D. Abraham Yanofsky 3.5; Shimon Kagan 0.5

Laszlo Szabo - D. Abraham Yanofsky
Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1967

World Blitz Championship 1988

Five-minute chess, held at Saint John, New Brunswick
Won by Mikhail Tal ahead of Gary Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov

World Championship Candidates Matches 1971

8th cycle, 1/4 Final Match, Vancouver, British Columbia
Robert Fischer 6 - Mark Taimanov 0

Robert Fischer - Mark Taimanov
World Championship - Candidates Matches 1/4 Final, Vancouver, British Columbia, Round 6, 1971

World Championship Candidates Matches 1988

14th cycle, 1/8 Final Matches, Saint John, New Brunswick
Kevin Spraggett defeated Andrei Sokolov (6.5/12)
Johann Hjartarson defeated Viktor Kortchnoi (4.5/8)
Lajos Portisch defeated Rafael Vaganian (3.5/6)
Jan Timman defeated Valery Salov (3.5/6)
Jonathan Speelman defeated Yasser Seirawan (4/5)
Nigel Short defeated Gyula Sax (3.5/5)
Artur Yusupov defeated Jaan Ehlvest (3.5/5)

Andrei Sokolov - Kevin Spraggett
World Championship - Candidates Matches 1/8 Final, Saint John, New Brunswick, Round 12, 1988

World Championship Candidates Matches 1989

14th cycle, 1/4 Final Match, Quebec, Quebec
Artur Yusupov defeated Kevin Spraggett (5/9)

Kevin Spraggett - Artur Yusupov
World Championship - Candidates Matches 1/4 Final, Quebec, Quebec, Round 2, 1989

World Championship 1894

Wilhelm Steinitz - Emanuel Lasker
Games 12 through 19 (the last) were played in Montreal, Quebec where Steinitz scored 4/8; however, he lost the match (7/19) and his title

Emanuel Lasker - Wilhelm Steinitz
World Championship, Montreal, Quebec, Round 19, 1894

World Computer Championship 1977

2nd World Computer Championship, Toronto, Ontario 1977.08.08-12

World Computer Championship 1989

6th World Computer Championship, Edmonton, Alberta 1989.05.28-31

World Junior Championship 1957

4th World Junior Championship, Toronto, Ontario 1957
Organized by Bernard Freedman
Won by William Lombardy of USA

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Canadian Chess Games

Over 150 memorable games of Canadian chess
PGN format
Last updated: 2007.11.06

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Did you know?

D. Abraham Yanofsky won the Canadian Closed Championship with a perfect score of 11/11 - twice! (1943, 1959)
Laszlo Witt won the Canadian Open with a perfect score of 9/9! (1962)
Five players have won (or tied for first place in) the Canadian Closed and Open in the same year! Igor Ivanov (1981,1985), Ron Livshits 1995, Bryon Nickoloff 1995, Kevin Spraggett 1996, Pascal Charbonneau 2002
Leo Williams holds the Canadian record for blindfold games played simultaneously - 27! (1986)
Hugh Brodie has played in the Canadian Open Championship 31 times - including 29 in a row! (1974-2002)
Doug Burgess was the most active tournament player in Canada 7 years in a row! (1986-93)
Robert Kiviaho and Bryon Nickoloff, in Toronto 1973.09, played speed chess continuously with no breaks for 72 hours!
CHECK!, published by the Canadian Correspondence Chess Association, is the world's longest running Correspondence Chess magazine
Four players have won a Canadian Championship 8 times! D. Abraham Yanofsky, Maurice Fox (Closed); Kevin Spraggett (Open); Nava Starr (Women's Closed)
Two players have won annual Grand Prix circuits 9 times! Deen Hergott (Eastern Ontario), Igor Ivanov (U.S.)
Kevin Spraggett was the top rated Canadian at Year-end 25 times from 1980-2007!
Nava Starr was the top rated female Canadian at Year-end 20 consecutive years from 1976-1995!
Lawrence Day has represented Canada at the Olympiads 13 times! He's followed by Nava Starr (12 times) and D. Abraham Yanofsky (11 times)
Canada's best finish at the Olympiad was tied for 7th at 1978 Buenos Aires, Argentina. Canada finished tied for 8th at 1976 Haifa, Israel and 1980 Valetta, Malta
Canadians have won Board medals at the Olympiads 14 times! National Team - Gold: D. Abraham Yanofsky, Board 2, 1939; Frank Anderson, Board 2, 1954, 1958; Silver: Peter Biyiasas, Board 2, 1978; Kevin Spraggett, Board 2, 2000; Bronze: Peter Biyiasas, Board 4, 1972; Jean Hébert, Board 3, 1982; Lawrence Day, Board 3, 1986; Deen Hergott, Alternate 1, 1990; Yan Teplitsky, Board 4, 2002; Women's Team - Gold: Nava Starr, Board 2, 1976; Céline Roos, Board 2, 1984; Bronze: Smilja Vujosevic, Board 1, 1976; Nava Starr, Board 1, 1982
Longest time from first to last appearance in the Canadian Championship: D. Abraham Yanofsky, 49 years (1937-86); James Narraway, 43 years (1888-1931)
Longest time between appearances in the Canadian Championship: John MacPhail, 32 years (1972-2004)
Most consecutive decades appearing in a Canadian Championship: D. Abraham Yanofsky, 6 (1930s-1980s); Lawrence Day, 5 (1960s-2000s)
Three players can play in the Canadian Championship in the 2000's, after having played in it in the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's and 1990's: Denis Allan, Leon Piasetski, Zvonko Vranesic
Largest number of players in a Canadian Championship: 69, 2004; 36, 2002
Three world records that have since been broken were set by Canadians: Frank Marshall's 156 board simultaneous exhibition Montreal 1922.01; Branimir Brebrich, most opponents (consecutive), 575 games, Edmonton 1978.01.27-8; 1972 Quebec Open, most players in a weekend open chess tournament, 746 players
Michel Gagne made the Guinness Book of Records with the first ever record for chess play against a computer: 70 hours non-stop, 1986.04.25-28, scoring +8 =1 -3 against a High Fidelity Excellence 4.0

Links

Canadian Chess

Organizations

2004 Canadian Youth Chess Championship and 2004 Canadian Open Chess Championship
British Columbia Chess Federation
Canadian Correspondence Chess Association
Chess Academy of Canada
Chess Federation of Canada
Chess'n Math Association
chess in Manitoba
Dutton Chess - Toronto area chess
Greater Toronto Chess League
Kingston Chess Club
Nova Scotia Chess Hall of Fame
Ontario High School Championship - contact Chris Field at Chris.Field@tel.tdsb.on.ca for details
or here - contact Daniel Reid at daniel.reid@sac.on.ca

People

Mark Barnes - British Columbia Chess Scene
Jonathan Berry
Larry Bevand - see Chess'n Math Association
Hugh Brodie
David Cohen
Valer Eugen Demian
Mark Dutton - see Dutton Chess Club
Igor Ivanov
Roman Jiganchine
Samuel Kitces' family
Danny Kopec
David Lavin
Alexandre Lesiège
Knut Neven - En Passant Chess Magazine
Monty Newborn
Roman Pelts - see Chess Academy of Canada
Kevin Spraggett
Jack Taylor's family
Dimitri Tyomkin
Stephen Wright - British Columbia Chess History
Richard Ziegler

General

The Week in Chess (TWIC)
National Databases
ChessCafe.com

Notes

Quote from Lawrence Day on Canadian style in chess is from his article on chess in The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985.

ACM = Association for Computing Machinery
CCCA = Canadian Correspondence Chess Association
CYCC = Canadian Youth Chess Championships
FICS = Free Internet Chess Server
FIDE = Fédération International des Échecs, the world governing body for the sport of chess.
ICCF = International Correspondence Chess Federation
WYCC = World Youth Chess Championships

Biographies are of Canadians who have contributed to chess; and anyone who has contributed to chess in Canada. Receipt of a FIDE title is not part of my standard for inclusion; e.g., at least 3 International Arbiters from Canada are not included.

Medals refer to places (gold = first; silver = second; bronze = third). An actual medal may not have been awarded.

Information has been gathered mostly from secondary sources. The information is sometimes incomplete, but, overall, it is accurate. Sometimes there is conflicting information, so, on rare occasions, I have made my best guess.

Contributors

Catherine Swales Ali, Denis Allan, Bruce Amos, Stephen Ball, Vesma Baltgailis, Daniela Belc, Jonathan Berry, Larry Bevand, Peter Biyiasas, Anthony Boron, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Brodie, Marina Bryskine, Murray Chandler, Pascal Charbonneau, Stefanie Chu, Jeff Coakley, Alex Davies, Lawrence Day, Joe Deidun Jr., Valer Eugen Demian, Pierre Dénommée, Nathan Divinsky, Frank Dixon, Michael Dougherty, Paul Dunn, Thanh Nha Duong, Mark Dutton, Jo Anne Fatherly (USCF), Ian Findlay, Michel Gagne, Phil Haley, Bruce Harper, Jean Hébert, Marc Hébert, Deen Hergott, John Hilbert, Igor Ivanov, Hans Jung, Harry Kaminker, Cyril Large, David Lavin, Alexandre Lesiège, J. Ken MacDonald, Paul Maisonneuve, Erik Malmsten, Ralph Marconi, Tony Marsland, Alan McGowan, Andrew McMillan, Louis Morin (FQE), Gyorgy Negyesi, Knut Neven, Bryon Nickoloff, Roman Pelts, Marian Predescu, Dr. Cameron Pulsifer (Historian, Canadian War Museum), Vinny Puri, Céline Roos, Dave Ross, David J. Ross, Artem Samsonkin, Paul Selick, Kevin Spraggett, Nava Starr, Sasha Starr, Peter Stockhausen, Lynn Stringer, Dimitri Tyomkin, Adam Umiastowski, Zvonko Vranesic, Smilja Vujosevic, Leo Williams, Jack Yoos