Canadian Chess Biographies
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- MacAdam, Daniel
- Macdonald, Charles
- MacLeod, David
- MacLeod, Donald R.
- MacLeod, Nicholas M.
- MacLeod, William D.R.
- MacPhail, John
- Macskasy, Elod
- Marantz, Michael
- Marshall, Frank
- Marsland, Tony
- Martin, Robert
- Mascarene, Paul
- McDonald, Patrick
- Meng, Fanhao
- Mikanovic, Goran
- Milat, Marcel
- Milicevic, Dragoljub
- Milicevic, Goran
- Millar, Charles
- Mongeau, Diane
- Moore, Thomas
- Morrison, John
- Morrison, Robert
- Moser, Leo
- Moss, Moe
- Mrugala, Artur
- Muir, Walter
- Murphy, M.J.
(1885-1985)
Photo: Year Book 1946-47: Chess Federation of Canada.
- 2000 Canadian Chess Hall of Fame
- 1985 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)
- 1977 Received Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal for contributions in the field of chess
- 1967-75 Chair, Chess Foundation of Canada
- Raised funds for Canadian chess through the Chess Foundation of Canada
- 1962 Compiled Directory of Chess Players in Canada
- Founder and editor 1947-56 of Canadian Chess Chat (originally Maritime Chess News, later Maritime Chess Chat)
- Express messenger for Canadian Pacific Railway
- 1889 Arrived in Canada (born St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
Source: Bulletin 2, 1974.01-02, Chess Federation of Canada, p. 13.
Contributor: Lynn Stringer.
(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
- Correspondence Senior International Master 1999
- Canadian Correspondence Champion 1984
- Member Canada's 11th International Correspondence Chess Federation
Olympiad Bronze medal team
- Played Canadian Championship 1881, 1882 (3rd), 1886 (3rd)
(1870-1965)
Photo: Western Chess Association, 1901.
- 2000 Canadian Chess Hall of Fame
- Around 1903, moved to Spokane, Washington, USA
- 1901 Won second Western Chess Association Tournament (1st Western Open, later called U.S. Open) at Excelsior, Minnesota with 13/15
- 1900 Defeated Harry Pillsbury in blindfold simultaneous exhibition given by Pillsbury in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1899 Minnesota Champion
- 1896 Moved to Minnesota, USA
- Invented the MacLeod Defence
- 1892 Only player to beat future World Champion Emanuel Lasker in simultaneous exhibition given by Lasker, Quebec City, Quebec
- 1889 Played in the New York tournament, held to select a challenger to World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz; set a record for most losses in one tournament, 31
- 1887 Tied for first in Canadian Championship
- 1886 Youngest ever Canadian Champion, just past 16th birthday
- Two times Canadian Champion (1886, 1888)
Nicholas MacLeod - J.W. Baird
New York, NY, USA 1889, Round 21
Contributors: Family of Nicholas MacLeod (photo); Michael Dougherty, Stephen Wright.
Research note: There were several players named MacLeod, and the record of who accomplished what is not always clear. N.M. MacLeod is sometimes incorrectly referred to as 'N.W. MacLeod'. This is probably a mix up of Nicholas MacLeod and William MacLeod. Both players were born in Quebec City, Quebec; both moved to Minnesota, USA.
(1869-1941)
- 2nd place Canadian Championship 1890
- Minnesota Champion 1907
Photo: copyright 2004 by the photographer David Cohen.
- FIDE Master 1983
- Canadian Junior Champion 1973
(1919-90)
Photo: 1969 Canadian Championship, Pointe Claire, Quebec. Chess Canada 1970.07.
- Canadian Open Champion 1958
- Represented Canada at Olympiads (1964, 1968)
(Mikhail Marants)
(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
- 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
(1910-78)
Photo: 1935 Canadian Championship, Canadian Chess Championship Tournament 1935, 1935.
- Canadian Champion 1933
- Canadian Correspondence Champion 1946
(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
- International Arbiter 2004
- Organizer/Tournament Director, Canadian Amateur Championship (2007, 2008)
- Organizer, Canadian Women's Championship 2007
- Organizer, Canadian Championship 2007
- Organizer, Canadian Open Championship 2006
- Organizer/Tournament Director, Canadian Youth Championships 2006
- Arbiter, World Youth Championships 2003
Contributor: Patrick McDonald
Photo: copyright 2004 by the photographer David Cohen.
- British Columbia Champion (1997, 2000-1)
Photo: Copyright 2003 by the photographer Erik Malmsten.
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
(1882-1954)
Photo: 1951 Canadian Championship, Vancouver.
- President, founder, Seaport Agencies; President, British Empire Dock
Co. Ltd.
- Played Canadian Championship 1951
- British Columbia Champion (1931, 1932, 1933, 1937)
Contributor: family of Frank Anderson (photo); Stephen Wright, BCCF Bulletin #127, 2007.09.10.
- Woman International Master 1981
- Achieved Woman International Master title qualification at Canadian Women's
Closed and Zonal Championship 1981 (6.5/9)
- Represented Canada at Women's Olympiad (1982, 1984, 1990, 2004)
- Problem composer
- Edited first Canadian chess book 100 Gems of Chess, London, Ontario 1872
(1889-1975)
Photo: The Book of the London International Chess Congress 1922, edited
by W.H. Watts, 1924.
- 2000 Canadian Chess Hall of Fame
- 1939 Board 1 for Canada at the Olympiad, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1931 Tied for first in Canadian Championship
- Five times Canadian Champion (1910, 1913, 1922, 1924, 1926)
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
- FIDE Master 1983
- Represented Canada on Group 'B' 1st place team at World Youth Team
Championship 1980
(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
(Moskowitch)
(1914-87)
- Chess columnist, Montreal Star
- Chess promoter; organized 1st Canadian Open Championship 1956
- First Chair (after establishment), Chess Foundation of Canada 1956
- Co-author Blunders and Brilliancies, 1985
- Correspondence Senior International Master 2000
(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
Source: Chess Personalia by Jeremy Gaige.