Canadian Chess Biographies

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• Gale, Sydney
• Gardner, John
• Gaspariants, Vladimir
• Gaudet, Gaston
• Gaulin, Claude
• Gentes, Kevin
• Gersho, Jack
• Gerzhoy, Leonid
• Ghannoum, Marc
• Gibney, Eugene
• Glinert, Stephen
• Goldenberg, Danny
• Gonnason, Aaron
• Goodman, C. Frank
• Gordon, John
• Goutor, Valentina
• Grant, Charles
• Green, Ernest H.
• Green-Krotki, Jan

Sydney Gale

Photo: 1935 Canadian Championship, Canadian Chess Championship Tournament 1935, 1935.

• Canadian Champion 1920

Drew future World Champion Alexander Alekhine:

Alexander Alekhine - Sydney Gale
Toronto, Ontario, 1924

John Gardner

Source: Chess Personalia by Jeremy Gaige.

Vladimir Gaspariants

• FIDE Master

Gaston Gaudet

Photo: 1935 Canadian Championship, Canadian Chess Championship Tournament 1935, 1935.

• Played Canadian Championship 1926

Claude Gaulin

• Retired professor of mathematics education, Laval University
• Problem composer
• 1st prize and 2nd honourable mention, 18th Theme Tourney, Feenschach 1961-2

Contributor: Claude Gaulin. Source: The Serieshelpmate by John Rice and Anthony Dickens, 1971.

Kevin Gentes

• FIDE Master 1992

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

Jack Gersho

• Top Montreal player

Leonid Gerzhoy

Photo: Hart House, Toronto, 2008. Copyright 2008 by the photographer David Cohen.

• 2010 Selected Canada's Olympiad National Team
• 2009 Represented Canada at Pan-American Championship
• 2009 Grandmaster Norm, World Open, Philadelphia, USA
• 2008 2nd place, Jessie Gilbert Celebration International, Coulsdon, England
• 2007 Canadian Junior Champion
• 2006 2nd place Canadian Championship
• 2005 Arrived Canada
• 2002 International Master

Marc Ghannoum

• FIDE Master 2001

Eugene Gibney

• Correspondence Senior International Master 2004
• Represents Ireland

Stephen Glinert

Photo: 2003 Chess'n Math Association Futurity IV, Toronto. Copyright 2003 by the photographer Erik Malmsten.

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• Played Canadian Championship 1897

Ernest H. Green

• 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

Photo: Chess Canada 1973.04.

• Canadian Open Champion 1977