Canadian Chess Biographies
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(1857-1947)
Photo: British Chess Magazine, 1897, p.299; Toronto Reference Library.
- 2000 Canadian Chess Hall of Fame
- Paleontologist; two discoveries on banks of Ottawa River accepted by Royal Ontario Museum and British Museum
- 1918 Winner 5th North American Correspondence Chess Championship
- 1903 First place, Pillsbury National Correspondence Chess Association Masters' Tournament
- Three times Canadian Champion (1893,1897, 1898)
- 1891 Third place, Globe Correspondence Tournament No. 2
- Tied for first place, Canadian Championship 1888 (scoring 4/5, awarded 3rd place after play-off), 1889
- Worked in Civil Service, Department of Justice, Government of Canada 45 years (1887-1932); Chief Accountant, Registrar
- 1887 Manager, Bank of Nova Scotia, Moncton and Cambellton, New Brunswick
- 1886-8 First place, Globe Correspondence Tournament No. 1
- 1880-2 3rd place, Hamilton Chess Club Correspondence Tournament
- 1874 B.A., University of New Brunswick
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
Contributor: John Hilbert.
- Professor, Head Classics Department, Acadia University, Nova Scotia
- Author In quest of the North West Passage, 1958; The Link Between the Oceans, 1960
- Canadian Correspondence Champion 1937
Photo: Monty Newborn homepage, McGill University. Copyright 2010 by 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.
Contributor: Monty Newborn (photo).
(1956-2004)
Photo: Canadian Junior Championship, Toronto, 1974.05. Chess Canada 1974.06.
- 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
Photo: copyright 2008 by Nikolay Noritsyn.
- 2012 Represented Canada at Olympiad
- 2011 Quebec Open Champion; first Grandmaster Norm
- 2010 Represented Canada at Olympiad
- 2010 2nd place, Canadian Open Championship
- 2008 Represented Canada at Olympiad
- 2008 Toronto Closed Champion with perfect score (9/9)
- 2007 Canadian Chess Player of the Year
- 2007 International Master
- 2007 Canadian Champion at age 16, second youngest ever
- 2006 Toronto Grand Prix Champion
- 2006 Toronto Open Champion
- 2005 Toronto Grand Prix Champion
- 2003 Canadian Under 12 Champion
- 2003 Ontario Under 12 Champion
- 2003 Ontario Grade 6 Champion
- 2002 Ontario Under 12 Champion
- 2002 Ontario Grade 5 Champion
Contributor (photo): Nikolay Noritsyn.
Photo: Chess Canada 1973.05.
- 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