Canadian Chess

Written and copyright 2000-9 by David Cohen.

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).

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 first approved the establishment of the Chess Foundation of Canada as its Permanent Trust Fund, and the first donation was made in 1956.

Correspondence chess has thrived in Canada since the 19th century; the Canadian Correspondence Chess Association was founded in 1921, and its magazine has been published since 1927.

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 2000-9 by David Cohen

Canadian Chess Hall of Fame Inductees

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

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

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

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

Canadian Chess Biographies

Written and copyright 2000-9 by David Cohen

Biographies

Valerian Adam

Mario Adriano

Rodulfo Alipayo

Denis Allan

Photo

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Bruce Amos

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)

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

Contributors: John Donaldson, Ross Siemms. Source: FIDE Report by John Prentice, Canadian Chess Chat, 1959.08-12,p.59.

Charles Anstey

(1873-1943)

Penka (Apostolova) Apostolov

Jacob G. Ascher

(1841-1912)

Portrait

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

William Atkinson

(?-1887)

Janak Awatramani

Doug Bailey

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

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

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

Osias Bain

Stephen Ball

Vesma Baltgailis

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

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

Sylvain Barbeau

Irina Barron

Michael Barron

George Barry

Gary Basanta

William A. Beers

(1883-1942)

William G. Beers

(1841-1900)

Daniela Belc

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)

Amanda Benggawan

Marie Bernard

Jonathan Berry

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

Frederick Betts

(1853-1930)

Larry Bevand

Larry Bevand - Hugh Brodie
Toronto Open, Toronto, 1972

Peter Biyiasas

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

Leopold Blanchard

(1898-1933)

Boris Blumin

Mark Bluvshtein

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Lia Bogdan

Fedor Bohatirchuk

(1892-1984)

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

Hal Bond

Alexandra Botez

William Boultbee

(1832-1902)

Stephen Boyd

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

Ephrem Brisebois

Gilles Brodeur

Hugh Brodie

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)

Marina Bryskine

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

Richard Bulkeley

(1717-1800)

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

Les Bunning

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

Doug Burgess

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

Murray Campbell

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

Marie-Thérèse Chaput

Pascal Charbonneau

Photo

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Johanne Charest

Alexandre de Chaumont

Source: 1947 Canadian Championship tournament book edited by Leopold Christin

John Cherriman

(1823-1908)

Photo

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

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

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

John Cleeve

(1926-1995)

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

David Cohen

Joseph Cooke

(1858-1913)

Jocelyn Coté

Camille Coudari

David Creemer

(1902-53)

Contributor: Stephen Wright

Ioan Crisan

Charles Crompton

(1912-75)

David Cummings

George Danilov

Urmila Das

Alex Davies

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)

Angela Day

Lawrence Day

Photo

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)

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

Valer Eugen Demian

Photo

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

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)

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)

Cornelia Dinca

Nathan Divinsky

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

Vladimir (Walter) Dobrich

Photo

Photo: Copyright 2004 Vladimir Dobrich. Used by permission.

Raymond Doe

Michael Dougherty

Rudolph Draxl

Israel Dremen

(variation: Dreman)

Redpath Drummond

Serge Dubuc

Noel Duchesne

Thanh Nha Duong

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

Thanh Nha Duong - Jacob Murey
Quebec Open, Quebec 1987

Mark S. Dutton

Photo

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

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

Photo copyright 2004 Mark S. Dutton. Used by permission.

(Charles John) George Eastman

(Karl Johan Georg Ostman)
(1903-75)

Michael Edelstein

(?-2003)

George Emery

(1904-36)

Max Enke

Albert Ensor

John Ewing

(1889-1952)

Contributor: Stephen Wright

Joseph Ferencz

(1910-2003)

Gerald Fielding

W.E. Frank Fillery

(1903-85)

Ian Findlay

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)

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

Edward Fletcher

(1817-97)

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

Maurice Fox

(1898-1988)

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)

Nigel Fullbrook

Henry Funk

Jacob Funk

Geza Fuster

(1910-90)

Sydney Gale

(Sidney Gale)
(?-1950)

Drew future World Champion Alexander Alekhine:

Alexander Alekhine - Sydney Gale
Toronto, Ontario, 1924

John Gardner

(1856-1920)

Vladimir Gaspariants

Gaston Gaudet

Claude Gaulin

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

Kevin Gentes

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

Jack Gersho

Leonid Gerzhoy

Marc Ghannoum

Eugene Gibney

Stephen Glinert

Photo

Photo: Copyright 2003 by the photographer Erik Malmsten. Used by permission.

Danny Goldenberg

Aaron Gonnason

(1865-1938)

Contributor: Stephen Wright

C. Frank Goodman

John Gordon

Valentina Goutor

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Charles Grant

(1842-1916)

Ernest H. Green

(1877-1957)

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

John Hale

Philip (Phil) Haley

Photo

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

Photo

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

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Eric Hansen

Bruce Harper

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

John Harvey

Rob Hawkes

Rea Hayes

Jean Hébert

Photo

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)

John Henderson

(1836-96)

Photo

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

Deen Hergott

William Hicks

(1817-99)

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

Andrew Ho

Walter Holowach

(1909-2008)

Sources: obituary; Contented Knights 1949-50

Edward Holt

(1840-1909)

A. Hood

Joe Horton

Henry Howe

(1815-1900)

Lefong Hua

Gregory Huber

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Joseph Hunt

(1851-1920)

Robert Hunter

(1876-1953)

Goran Ivankovic

Igor Ivanov

(1947-2005)

Photo

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

George Jackson

Martin Jaeger

Carlos Jauregui

Francis Jemmett

(?-1905)

Glenn Johnstone

Peter Edmund Jones (Kahkewaquonaby)

(1843-1909)

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

Lionel Joyner

(1932-2001)

Hans Jung

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

Hans Jung selected two additional games, a win in 'his opening' against IM Nickoloff and an 'exciting win' against IM Day:

Hans Jung - Bryon Nickoloff
Ontario Open Championship, Guelph, Ontario, 1990.05.21

Hans Jung - Lawrence Day
Ontario Closed Championship, Toronto, Ontario, 1996.01.26, Round 7

Contributor: Hans Jung (game selection, biography)

Miervaldis (Walter) Jursevskis

Contributor: Stephen Wright

Dina Kagramanov

Andrew Kalotay

Joseph Kaltenecker

Harry Kaminker

Ray Kerr

(Ray Krznaric)

Marat Khassanov

Dinara Khaziyeva

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Natalia Khoudgarian

Neil Kirton

Samuel Kitces

(1913-99)

Source: Kitces family

Henry Kittson

(1849-1926)

Robert Kiviaho

Robert Kleinman

Source: Toronto Star 2008.08.25, p.A6

Alex Knox

Timour Koliada

Frank Kollar

Danny Kopec

Anton Kovalyov

Nikita Kraiouchkine

Tomas Krnan

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by the photographer David Cohen.

Slobodan (Bob) Krstic

Maxim Krupnov

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

George Kuprejanov

(1938-91)

Murray Kurtz

Alex Kuznecov

François-Xavier Lambert

(1833-1920)

Herb Langer

Contributor: Herb Langer. Sources: Chess Canada Echecs No.59 (1983.03-04, p.62), No.60 (1983.05-06, p.20).

Cyril Large

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

David Lavin

Photo

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Andrew Bonar Law

(1858-1923)

Eric Lawson

Photo

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Stephen Leacock

(1869-1944)

"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

Dudley LeDain

(1900-78)

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

Jonah Lee

Vicente Lee Jr.

Manon Léger

Roger Lemelin

(1919-92)

Alexandre Lesiège

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

François Léveillé

George Levtchouk

Oleg Linskiy

Irwin Lipnowski

Adam Littke

Ron Livshits

Annabelle Lougheed Freedman

(1899-1986)

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)

Photo

Contributor: Lynn Stringer

Charles Macdonald

(1828-1901)

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

David MacLeod

Donald R. MacLeod

Nicholas M. MacLeod

(1870-1965)

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

William D.R. MacLeod

(1869-1941)

John MacPhail

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Elod Macskasy

(1919-90)

Michael Marantz

(Mikhail Marants)

Frank Marshall

(1877-1944)

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

Robert Martin

(1910-78)

Paul Mascarene

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

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

Patrick McDonald

Contributor: Patrick McDonald

Fanhao Meng

Goran Mikanovic

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Marcel Milat

Dragoljub Milicevic

Goran Milicevic

Photo

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

Photo: Copyright 2003 by the photographer Erik Malmsten. Used by permission.

Charles Millar

(1882-1954)

Contributor: Stephen Wright, BCCF Bulletin #127, 2007.09.10

Diane Mongeau

Thomas Moore

John Morrison

(1889-1975)

Photo

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

Leo Moser

(1921-70)

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)

Artur Mrugala

Walter Muir

(1905-99)

M.J. Murphy

James Narraway

(1857-1947)

Photo

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

Monroe (Monty) Newborn

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)

Here is one of Bryon Nickoloff's favourite games:

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

Nikolay Noritsyn

Peter Nurmi

Jura Ochkoos

Tom O'Donnell

Haakon Opsahl

Yelizaveta Orlova

Dianna Palamarek

Raja Panjwani

Claude Paré

Roman Pelts

Photo

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

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

Jonathan Penrose - Mikhail Tal
Olympiad, Leipzig, 1960

Lionel Penrose

(1898-1972)

Andrew Peredun

Photo

Photo: copyright 2003 by the photographer Erik Malmsten. Used by permission.

William Perry

Emil Phaneuf

Ray Philips

Thomas Phillipps

(1833-1915)

Charles Phillips

Leon Piasetski

David Pik

Denis Pineault

Thomas Piper

(1857-1938)

Contributor: Stephen Wright

Charles Podlone

(1915-77)

William H.K. Pollock

(1859-96)

Photo

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

Edward Porper

Porper won a beauty prize for the following game:

Edward Porper - Gavin Lock
32nd Guernsey Chess Festival, Grand Harve Bay GCI, 2006.10.21, Round 7

Edwin Pope

(1843-1936)

John Prentice

(1907-87)

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

Source: Canadian Chess Chat 1966.07 Vol.20, No.7, p.148-9; FIDE Representative's Report by John Prentice, Canadian Chess Chat 1966.09 Vol.20, No.9, p.216-7.

Kalev Pugi

(1925-84)

Alar Puhm

Arthur Puller

(1833-85)

Vinod (Vinny) Puri

Photo

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by the photographer David Cohen.

Frank Pushkedra

Zhe Quan

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 Zhe Quan. Used by permission.

George Raletich

Robert Ramsey

(1844-1922)

Joseph Rauch

Howard Ridout

(1914-2003)

Nenad Ristovic

Henry Robertson

R.F. (Ron) Rodgers

(?-2001)

Michael Rohland

Harry Rombach

Céline Roos

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)

Here is Rose's draw with future World Champion Capablanca:

Jose R. Capablanca - Herbert J. Rose
Columbia University (USA) - Oxford University (England), Anglo-American Universities Cable Match, 1907.03.23, Board 1

Contributors: Domenico Accorinti, Alan McGowan. Sources: Toronto Globe and Mail, 1905.05.11; A Century of British Chess by Philip W. Sergeant, London, Hutchinson & Co., 1934, p.352-3; Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings by Bruce Hayden, London, Arco, 1960, p.7 (foreward by Harry Golombek), p.155-8; British Chess Magazine, 1961, p.254; The Unknown Capablanca by David Hooper and Dale Brandreth, Batsford, 1975, p.101, Game 104, referencing American Chess Bulletin, 1907, p.95; Edward Winter's chess history web site, quoting 'What Happened to Rose?' by Bruce Hayden, Chess Review, 1955.01, p.27, and the reply by Leonard Barden, Chess Review, 1955.05, p.129.

David (Dave) Ross

Paul Ross

Thomas Roussel-Roozmon

William Rover

Henry Roy

(1875-1953)

Gary Ruben

Contributor: Gary Ruben (biography)

Abraham Rubinoff

Adrian Russell

Isaac Ryall

(1830-1901)

Charles-Ephrem Saint-Maurice

Artem Samsonkin

(pronounced Artiom)

Edward Sanderson

Zoltan Sarosy

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

Julia Sarwer

James Sawyer

Joseph Sawyer

(1874-1965)

Jonathan Schaeffer

Michael Schleifer

John Schleinich

(1924-2004)

Ludolph Schull

(1834-97)

Mark Schulman

Paul Selick

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)

Joseph Shaw

(1834-97)

Robert Short

(1844-1927)

Ross Siemms

Sandor (Alex) Siklos

(1935-2000)

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)

Hazel Smith

Photo

Photo: copyright 2005 by Duncan Smith. Used by permission.

Magnus Smith

(1869-1934)

Stephen Francis Smith

(?-1928)

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

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)

Photo

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by the photographer Peter Southam. Used by permission.

Paul Spinath

Grant Spraggett

Kevin Spraggett

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

Photo

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

Photo: Copyright 2001 by the photographer Mark S. Dutton, Dutton Chess. Used by permission.

Christian Stevens

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Drew Stoll

(d.1996)

Raymond Stone

Lynn Stringer

Photo

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)

Duncan Suttles

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)

Alina Sviridovitch

David Swales

Source: Catherine Swales Ali

Gordon Taylor

John (Jack) Monteith Taylor

(1907-74)

Source: Lyle McClelland's Taylor family genealogy

Eduardo Teodoro IV

Yan Teplitsky

Shiyam Thavandiran

Ivan Theodorovich

(Ivan Suk)

Jules Thérien

William Thomas

(c.1799-1860)

Source: Neil Einarson, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1851-1860 Volume VIII, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000

Alan Tomalty

O. Trempe

Dimitri Tyomkin

Photo

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

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Alexander Ugge

Yaaqov Vaingorten

Povilas (Paul) Vaitonis

(1911-83)

Henry Vercoe

(1840-85)

Frank Veszely

Vahagn Voskanyan

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Zvonko Vranesic

Smilja Vujosevic

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)

Robert Wachtel

Edward (Ted) Wainwright

Kelly Wang

Yamei Wang

William Wetherald

(1820-98)

"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)

Kenneth Whitfield

(1902-83)

Kurt Widmann

Leo Williams

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

Laird Wilson

Stanley Wilson

(1881-1960)

William N. Wilson

(1912-73)

W.O. Wilson

William Winfrey

(1876-1956)

Ken Winterton

(1919-98)

Contributors: Winterton family. Sources: article by Ken Winterton, Canadian Chess Chat 1963.08 Vol.17, No.8, p.187; Chess Canada Echecs No.60 (1983.05-06, p.20); En Passant No.78 (1986.04), 149, 150, 151; Ottawa Citizen 1998.02.27.

Laszlo (Leslie) Witt

(1933-2005)

John (Jack) Woodbury

Thomas Workman

(1813-89)

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

Fred Wren

(1900-78)

Siegfried Wreschner

(1899-1956)

John Wright

Contributor: Joe Deidun Jr.

D. Abraham Yanofsky

(1925-2000)

Defeated future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, which he later described as "the greatest sense of achievement in life":

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

Drew future World Champion Robert Fischer:

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

Sources: The Games of D.A. Yanofsky by David J. Ross, 1985; En Passant 59

Harry Yanofsky

Frank Yerhoff Jr.

(1918-99)

Contributor: Knut Neven

John (Jack) Yoos

Photo

Photo: copyright 2004 by photographer David Cohen

Yuanling Yuan

Elias Zakon

Ignas Zalys

(1913-91)

Ignas Zalys considered this one of the best games that he ever played:

Maurice Fox - Ignas Zalys
Montreal Closed Championship, Montreal, Quebec, 1949

Ignas Zalys considered this game, against the future grandmaster, one of his best correspondence games:

Walter Browne - Ignas Zalys
Correspondence, 1963-4

Ignas Zalys called this game, his only win against the future grandmaster, ‘interesting’:

Ignas Zalys - Kevin Spraggett
Saint-Jean Open, Montreal, Quebec, 1973.06.24, Round 3

Contributor: Hugh Brodie. Source (biography, game selection): Personal correspondence of Ignas Zalys, 1989.05.07, 1989.08.08.

Richard Ziegler

William Zombori

Igor Zugic

Photo

Photo: copyright 2003 by the photographer Erik Malmsten. Used by permission.

Robert Zuk

Canadian Chess Topics

Canadian Correspondence Chess Association

Chess Federation of Canada

Chess Foundation of Canada

Chess'n Math Association

Edmonton International 2006-8

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.

Grand Manan

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

Guelph Pro-Am International Open 2002-5

McGill University

Montreal 1979

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 2000-9

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

North Bay International Open 1994-9

Ribbit

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

Toronto International Open

Large Swiss-style multi-section tournaments, organized by David Lavin (1984-5); Alex Knox, Shivaharan Thurairasah, Ignac Vucko, Vojin Vujosevic (1997-8); Mark S. Dutton (2000 Toronto Summer International Open).

University of Alberta

University of Toronto

University of Waterloo

Visiting masters

Alexander Alekhine

(1892-1946)

Alexander Alekhine - John Morrison
Toronto, Ontario, 1924

Mikhail Botvinnik

(1911-95)

Jose Capablanca

(1888-1942)

Machgielis (Max) Euwe

(1901-81)

Larry M. Evans

Robert Fischer

Ed Formanek

Valeria Gansvind

Kiril Georgiev

Arkady Gilman

Nicolai Jasnogrodsky

(1859-1914)

Paul Keres

(1916-75)

George Koltanowski

Ilias Kourkounakis

Anatoly Karpov

Gary Kasparov

Martin Kreuzer

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

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)

Emanuel Lasker

(1868-1941)

William Lombardy

Geza Maroczy

(1870-1951)

Harry Pillsbury

(1872-1906)

Sophia Polgar

Kamel Skalli

(variation: Kamul)

Boris Spassky

Wilhelm Steinitz

(1836-1900)

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

Mikhail Tal

(1936-92)

Robert G. Wade

Winnipeg 1967

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

World Blitz Championship 1988

World Championship Candidates Matches 1971

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

World Championship Candidates Matches 1988

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

World Championship Candidates Matches 1989

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

World Championship 1894

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

World Computer Championship 1977

World Computer Championship 1989

World Junior Championship 1957

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Canadian Chess Games

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Organizations

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People

Mark Barnes - British Columbia Chess Scene
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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
Corinna Wan - Ontario Girls Chess Championship
Stephen Wright - British Columbia Chess History
Richard Ziegler

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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

Domenico Accorinti, Catherine Swales Ali, Denis Allan, Bruce Amos, Stephen Ball, Vesma Baltgailis, Daniela Belc, Jonathan Berry, Larry Bevand, Peter Biyiasas, Hal Bond, Anthony Boron, Andrei Botez, 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, John Donaldson, Michael Dougherty, Paul Dunn, Thanh Nha Duong, Mark Dutton, Jo Anne Fatherly (USCF), Ian Findlay, Michel Gagne, Claude Gaulin, Phil Haley, Bruce Harper, Jean Hébert, Marc Hébert, Deen Hergott, John Hilbert, Igor Ivanov, Hans Jung, Harry Kaminker, Herb Langer, Cyril Large, David Lavin, Alexandre Lesiège, J. Ken MacDonald, Paul Maisonneuve, Erik Malmsten, Ralph Marconi, Tony Marsland, Patrick McDonald, Alan McGowan, Andrew McMillan, Louis Morin (FQE), Gyorgy Negyesi, Knut Neven, Bryon Nickoloff, Roman Pelts, Edward Porper, Marian Predescu, Dr. Cameron Pulsifer (Historian, Canadian War Museum), Vinny Puri, Céline Roos, Dave Ross, David J. Ross, Artem Samsonkin, Paul Selick, Ross Siemms, Kevin Spraggett, Nava Starr, Sasha Starr, Peter Stockhausen, Lynn Stringer, Dimitri Tyomkin, Adam Umiastowski, Zvonko Vranesic, Smilja Vujosevic, Corinna Wan, Leo Williams, family of Ken Winterton, Stephen Wright, Jack Yoos

Sources

Last updated: 2009.10.09.