Canadian Chess Biographies

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• Campbell, Brett
• Campbell, Murray
• Cayford, Richard Anthony
• Chaput, Marie-Thérèse
• Charbonneau, Pascal
• Charest, Johanne
• Chaumont, Alexandre de
• Cheng, Bindi
• Cherriman, John
• Chu, Stefanie
• Cleeve, John
• Cohen, David
• Cooke, Joseph
• Coté, Jocelyn
• Coudari, Camille
• Creemer, David
• Crisan, Ioan
• Crompton, Charles
• Cummings, David

Brett Campbell

Photo: At Zoltan Sarosy 100th birthday party, Toronto. Copyright 2006 by the photographer David Cohen.

• FIDE Master 2001
• 1984 Canadian Open Champion

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

Photo: 2004 Canadian Championship, Toronto. Copyright 2004 by the photographer David Cohen.

• 2008 Represented Canada at Olympiads
• 2006 Represented Canada at Olympiads
• 2006 Awarded International Grandmaster title
• 2006 Winner, Winter Chicago FIDE Invitational
• 2005 United States Chess League Most Valuable Player
• 2005 Board 1 on Baltimore Kingfishers team, United States Chess League Champions
• 2004 Represented Canada at World Championship
• 2004 Represented Canada at Olympiads
• 2004 Canadian Champion
• 2003 Canadian Chess Player of the Year
• 2003 2nd place, Pan-American Championship
• 2002 Represented Canada at Olympiads
• 2002 Canadian Champion
• 2002 Canadian Open Champion
• 2000 Represented Canada at Olympiads
• 2000 Canadian Champion Boys Under-18
• 2000 Canadian Junior Champion
• 2000 Canadian Grade 11 Champion
• 1999 Represented Canada at World Junior (Under-20) Championship
• 1999 Represented Canada at World Under-16 Championship
• 1999 Canadian Champion Boys Under-16
• 1998 Canadian Champion Under-18
• 1998 Canadian Cadet (Under-16) Champion
• 1996 Canadian Grade 7 Champion

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: Article on the history of chess in Canada by Leopold Christin in Championnat Canadien des Échecs 1947, 1947.

Bindi Cheng

Photo: 2009 Toronto Open Championship. Copyright 2009 by the photographer David Cohen.

• FIDE Master 2007
• Canadian Junior Champion 2006

John Cherriman

Photo: The University of Toronto - A History by Martin L. Friedland, University of Toronto Press, 2002, p.48, from University of Toronto Archives A73-0003/001 (21).

• 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

Sources: Chess Player’s Chronicle 1884.03.12 p.321-2; Hamilton Spectator 1872.09.25; University of Toronto Archives; plaque on University of Toronto main campus marking the site of the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory (1840-1908); 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 F. Cleeve

Photo: En Passant 100, 1990.02. Copyright 1990 by the photographer Jonathan Berry. Thanks to Jonathan Berry.

• Chartered Accountant, businessman
• 2000 Canadian Chess Hall of Fame
• 1987 Vice-President, International Correspondence Chess Federation
• 1970 Correspondence International Arbiter
• 1967 2nd place, Canadian Correspondence Championship
• 1965-1990 President, Canadian Correspondence Chess Association
• 1964 Helped CCCA magazine editor Russ Isaac become the first person to be paid for chess in Canada
• 1961 Canadian Correspondence Champion
• 1957 Arrived in Canada from England

Here is John Cleeve's selection of his best game, which won the best game prize:

A.B. Middlemass - John 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

Sources: John Cleeve interview with Jonathan Berry, En Passant #100, 1990.02 (game selection); CHECK! 514, 1995.04, edited by J. Ken MacDonald (game selection); The History of Correspondence Chess in Canada by Leonard Zehr, J. Ken MacDonald, 2006.

Contributors: Jonathan Berry (photo), Ralph Marconi.

David Cohen

Photo: copyright 2008 by the photographer Lisette Lu.

• International Arbiter 2004
• 3rd place, Internet Slow Time Control World Championship 2002
• Organized, directed 10th Canadian Women's Championship 2001
• Organized, directed 9th Canadian Cadet (Under-16) Championship 1987
• Organized, directed 8th Canadian Cadet (Under-16) Championship 1986
• Organized, co-directed 30th Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Championship 1984
• Organized, directed 21st Canadian Open Championship 1984

Joseph Cooke

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

Jocelyn Coté

• 2nd place, 23rd World Correspondence Championship, Candidates, Section 2, with undefeated 8/12 (+4 =8) 2004-7; Correspondence Grandmaster Norm, qualified Correspondence International Master title; qualified 23rd World Correspondence Championship Finals
• 1st place, Canadian Correspondence Championship (KE63) 2007

Camille Coudari

Photo: Chess Canada 1970.05.

• 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

Photo: 1951 Canadian Championship, Vancouver.

• 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. Source (photo): Family of Frank Anderson.

Ioan Crisan

• FIDE Master 1999

Charles Crompton

• 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

Photo: 2009 Toronto Open Championship. Copyright 2009 by the photographer David Cohen.

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