LAWRENCE DAY (born Feb-01-1949, 76 years old) Canada [what is this?] Lawrence Alexander Day was born in Kitchener Ontario, Canada. An IM in 1972, he was Canadian champion in 1991. Day represented Canada at the 1967 World Junior Championship, and as high as 2nd board and captain at the Olympiads - a Canadian record attendance 13 times. User: IMlday accumulated 70.5 points in 131 team games during the Olympiads. IM Lawrence Day registered a perfect 5/5 to top IM Jevgenyij Boguszlavszkij (visiting from Hungary) and the rest of the 16 player field Nov. 13 at the Bayview Games Club in Toronto to win the 2004 Canadian Senior Championship. He won the Ottawa RA club championships between 1966-8. He won the 1977, 1980 and 1983 Toronto Championships with 9/11, 8/11 and 10.5/11 respectively, and the year following, tied with Jozef Polacek and Robert Morrison for share of 1st-3rd. He maintained the 2 (weekly) merged columns in the Toronto Star newspaper (previously, Toronto Chess Club president and Canadian Chess Federation President (1936) Charles Crompton edited a weekly studies column during 1940-75 and Walter Dobrich had been a previous columnist in the earlier 1970s for annotations of a game segment) from 1976 until 2013. Occasionally, his column writing also appeared in the Winnipeg Tribune and Ottawa Citizen. He is a member of the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame and currently lives near Toronto. References: Winnipeg Tribune, http://www.thestar.com/ (Toronto Star), http://www.ottawacitizen.com/ (Ottawa Citizen), http://www.olimpbase.org (team chess archives), http://torontochess.org/drupal/ (Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) site), http://www.chessontario.com/ (Ontario Chess Association (OCA) site), http://chess.ca/players?check_ratin... (Canadian Chess Federation zone). Wikipedia article: Lawrence Day

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page 1 of 51; games 1-25 of 1,257  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. I Theodorovich vs L Day 1-0 30 1962 Canadian Open A05 Reti Opening 2. G Danilov vs L Day   1-0 57 1962 Canadian Open E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation 3. L Day vs H O Payne 1-0 14 1962 Canadian Open B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein 4. L Day vs P Haley   ½-½ 18 1962 Canadian Open A06 Reti Opening 5. L Day vs R Rodgers   0-1 27 1962 Canadian Open D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 6. L Day vs D Grimshaw   ½-½ 42 1963 Ontario Open E80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation 7. L Day vs Suttles 0-1 39 1964 Canadian Open B06 Robatsch 8. Z Sarosy vs L Day   1-0 48 1964 Canadian Open E71 King's Indian, Makagonov System (5.h3) 9. L Day vs V Pedersen 1-0 24 1965 RA CC-ch D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 10. G Fuster vs L Day   ½-½ 55 1965 Ontario Open A44 Old Benoni Defense 11. I Theodorovich vs L Day   1-0 31 1965 ON-op A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 12. L Day vs I Zalys   ½-½ 52 1965 Montreal-Ontario match B28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation 13. R Rodgers vs L Day 0-1 26 1965 RA Club Championship B06 Robatsch 14. L Day vs R Draxl   0-1 46 1965 Ontario Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 15. L Day vs D Grimshaw 1-0 15 1965 Ontario Open B12 Caro-Kann Defense 16. L Day vs A Kalotay 0-1 37 1965 Ontario Open E82 King's Indian, Samisch, double Fianchetto Variation 17. I Zalys vs L Day   ½-½ 58 1966 Ottawa Open A04 Reti Opening 18. L Day vs I Martin   ½-½ 60 1966 Ontario Team Final Ottawa-Hart House B23 Sicilian, Closed 19. J Matynia vs L Day 0-1 37 1966 Ottawa A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 20. L Day vs A Portigal 1-0 32 1966 Ottawa Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 21. L Day vs R Simpson   1-0 36 1966 League Ottawa-Cornwall C29 Vienna Gambit 22. L Day vs T Ackermann 1-0 45 1966 Ottawa-Montreal m C00 French Defense 23. L Day vs B Leckie 1-0 37 1966 Canadian Open B12 Caro-Kann Defense 24. Ivkov vs L Day 1-0 34 1966 Canadian Open C60 Ruy Lopez 25. L Day vs C Coudari   1-0 42 1966 Canadian Open B12 Caro-Kann Defense  page 1 of 51; games 1-25 of 1,257

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 81 OF 81 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-01-14    Richard Taylor: Happy birthday when it was Lawrence! You have the honour of being one year younger than I am.... Feb-01-14    M.C.B.1: Hi Lawrence, you probably don't remember me from the old Toronto Chess club but I will always remember your kindness and professional, helpful attitude. A real gentleman who sets a great example of how to be fantastic at chess and still be humble. You played blitz against me one Saturday morning and gave me a 2 minute handicap to give me a chance - when I finally won a game after about thirty tries, you were more excited and happy than I was! God bless. - Michael Bennett Feb-01-14    perfidious: <M.C.B.1> That positive attitude has shown up here at CG as well; and by no means have I read everything <IMlday> has posted on this site. Just enough to know. Feb-01-14    waustad: Happy B'day. Feb-01-14    Penguincw: Happy 65th birthday to Canadian IM Lawrence Day! :) Feb-01-14    Francio: Happy birthday to Lawrence Day (sorry for the unintentional pun there) Feb-01-14    Morttuus: Happy birthday,sir,and many happy days! Feb-01-14    Eraser07: Happy Birthday ,Mr. Lawrence! I'm a brazilian amateur chess player and knew you through chess games site. I think it's a privilege to live at same time of so gifted player. I'm impressed with your domaine of tactical and strategical issues, well as the positional and combination games. Coincidentally I was born in 1949 too. Greetings, Ernani Frota Feb-01-14    BohdanL: Best wishes for your birthday! Bohdan Feb-01-14    Domdaniel: Happy 65th, L.D. Feb-01-14    parisattack: Yes, indeed, he has played some very interesting and creative chess. I hope you are having a beautiful day in the neighborhood <IM Day>. Feb-01-15    falso contacto: hey, happy birthday and welcome back. Feb-01-15    tpstar: <IMlday> Happy Birthday!! Feb-01-15    Everyone: Many happy returns! May-01-15    TheFocus: <Chess is a meritocracy> - Lawrence Day. Jun-28-15    TimGluckman: Dear Lawrence, in an earlier discussion here you wrote (14.7.04) "Campo did (a) bring organized chess to Asia and Africa; &(b) rescue Karpov from an early death due to drug abuse" Cd you elaborate on point b pls? As this is a sensitive topic, you might wish to write offline to jaketim@hotmail.com. (I'll treat what you write in confidence of course). BTW like you I lived as a hippy when young and am now an advocate for Harm Reduction Oct-21-15    hesyrett: Glad to find you here after all these years, Lawrence. I recall our first OTB meeting when you handily refuted my Boden-Kieseritzky Gambit. I sure picked the wrong "kid" to try to confuse with an obscure old opening! Also, I seem to recall that at one point in Ottawa you told me you had a girl-friend named Igor who lived in a tree house--or perhaps it was just a tree. Feb-01-17    Sularus: happy birthday! Jan-28-18    ughaibu: Tell me, do you still maintain that 61 Memorable Games was written by Fischer? If so, what is your hypothesis as to why his personal friends say that he had nothing to do with it? Feb-03-18    Joshka: Happy Belated Birthday Larry!! Hope you're in good health!! Feb-03-18    redlance: Happy Birthday Mr Day!!! Jun-27-23    Stonehenge: Some time ago: https://digitalarchiveontario.ca/ob... Jun-27-23    perfidious: The image from 1976 is closer to the player I remember seeing at an open or three than to the picture above, possibly when I played in the Toronto International in July 1984. Dec-25-23    offramp: <"Merry Christmas Day Mr Lawrence>". Jan-01-24    thegoodanarchist: Tomorrow shall be the dawning of a new year. And a new Day! Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 81) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 81 OF 81 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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