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Haakon Opsahl (10 November 1905 – 30 May 2001) was a Norwegian and Canadian chess player. Since the early 1930s he lived in Canadian province Quebec on the coast of Lake Timiskaming. In 1933, Haakon Opsahl participated in U.S. Open Chess Championship. In 1936, he participated in Canadian Chess Championship.
The Canadian Open Chess Championship is Canada's Open chess championship, first held in 1956, and held annually since 1973, usually in mid-summer. It is organized by the Chess Federation of Canada . The event celebrated its 50th rendition in 2013.
Denis Allan won the Open Chess Championship in 1970. He shared first place at the Canadian Open Chess Championship in 1984. He was one of only four players to compete in the Canadian Chess Championship in each of four consecutive decades from the 1960s to the 1990s. [1]
2024 CPKC Women's Open - women's golf tournament held in July 2024 in Calgary, Alberta; 2024 National Bank Open - tennis tournament held in August 2024 in Montreal and Toronto; 2024 Canada Open - badminton tournament held in July 2024 in Calgary, Alberta; 2024 Canadian Open Chess Championship - chess tournament held in Laval, Quebec
Daniel Abraham (Abe) Yanofsky (March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000) was a Canadian chess player, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, and politician. An eight-time Canadian chess champion , Yanofsky was Canada's first grandmaster and the first grandmaster of the British Commonwealth .
He has won a total of eight Canadian Open Chess Championships, seven Closed Canadian Chess Championships, and has represented Canada eight times in Olympiad play. Spraggett has also written for Canadian chess publications and published a chess blog. [4] Spraggett is widely considered to be the strongest Canadian-born player in chess history. [2]
This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, [1] often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open tournament. The winner of the Canadian Closed advances to the World Cup stage of the FIDE World Chess Championship cycle. Winners on tiebreak or a playoff match are ...
He won the 2005 Canadian Open Chess Championship. Bologan tied for first place in the 2006 Aeroflot Open, finishing second on tiebreak. In May 2010, he tied for first with Wang Hao and Zahar Efimenko at the Bosna International open in Sarajevo. [6] Bologan played for Moldova in the Chess Olympiad in 1992 - 1998 and 2002 - 2014. [7]