The chess games of Nathan Joseph Divinsky

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Nathan Joseph Divinsky

Number of games in database: 17
Years covered: 1945 to 1966
Overall record: +9 -2 =6 (70.6%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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NATHAN JOSEPH DIVINSKY
(born Oct-29-1925, died Jun-16-2012, 86 years old) Canada

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Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky was a Canadian master and mathematician. He played an important role in chess organization in Canada during the 1950s and 1960s. From 1959 to 1974, Divinsky was editor of Canadian Chess Chat and in 1987 became Canada's FIDE representative. He was also an author of note.

In 1946 and 1952, Divinsky won the Manitoba championship. In 1959, he tied 1st-4th with John Kegel, Daniel Abraham Yanofsky & Harry Yanofsky in the Manitoba open. He was 3rd= in the Canadian Championship of 1945 and represented Canada as captain in the Olympiads of Amsterdam 1954 and Havana 1966.

Wikipedia article: Nathan Divinsky

Last updated: 2016-08-12 10:14:50

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. N Divinsky vs W Holowach	1-0	41	1945	CAN-ch	D04 Queen's Pawn Game
2. N Divinsky vs L M Duval	½-½	32	1945	CAN-ch	B54 Sicilian
3. N Divinsky vs J M Taylor	1-0	41	1945	CAN-ch	C42 Petrov Defense
4. N Divinsky vs H Hegler	1-0	37	1945	CAN-ch	C55 Two Knights Defense
5. N Divinsky vs A Helman	1-0	37	1945	CAN-ch	C19 French, Winawer, Advance
6. N Divinsky vs Yanofsky	½-½	30	1945	CAN-ch	D05 Queen's Pawn Game
7. N Divinsky vs J M Taylor	1-0	36	1951	CAN-ch	C61 Ruy Lopez, Bird's Defense
8. N Divinsky vs Yanofsky	0-1	40	1951	CAN-ch	D19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch
9. N Divinsky vs F R Anderson	0-1	63	1951	CAN-ch	E46 Nimzo-Indian
10. N Divinsky vs D Fox	1-0	65	1951	CAN-ch	E80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation
11. N Divinsky vs W Jursevskis	½-½	41	1951	CAN-ch	B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer
12. F Bohatirchuk vs N Divinsky	0-1	42	1951	Vancouver	C81 Ruy Lopez, Open, Howell Attack
13. N Divinsky vs Ugo Cala	½-½	41	1954	Amsterdam ol (Men) pre-II	A46 Queen's Pawn Game
14. N Divinsky vs Yanofsky	½-½	15	1959	Manitoba op	B06 Robatsch
15. N Divinsky vs J Chiaramonti	1-0	39	1966	La Habana ol (Men) fin-B	C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
16. N Divinsky vs S Smiltiner	1-0	61	1966	La Habana ol (Men) fin-B	C77 Ruy Lopez
17. N Divinsky vs A Lahti	½-½	69	1966	La Habana ol (Men) fin-B	B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation


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Oct-29-08		whiteshark: Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan...

Oct-29-08		BIDMONFA: Nathan Joseph Divinsky DIVINSKY, Nathan J. H. http://www.bidmonfa.com/divinsky_na... _

Oct-29-08		whiteshark: Just 2 posting robots :D

Oct-29-08		johnlspouge: I received my BSc in mathematics from the same Math department, at University of British Columbia, and his daughter Mimi (truly a wonderful person) was in the same medical class (UBC '79). It's a small world. ...a 3rd posting robot :)

Oct-29-08		Ron: http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php... 4th posting robot

Feb-18-09		Tabanus: http://www.chessbc.ca/nd.html

Oct-29-09		Birthday Boy: Happy Birthday!!!Nathan Joseph Divinsky!!!

Oct-29-09		Moonstone: Almost the same lifetime percentage record as Bobby Fischer! Happy Birthday!

Oct-29-09		WhiteRook48: was Fischer's 75%?

Oct-29-11		whiteshark: <Player of the Day> I robot

Oct-29-11		number 23 NBer: You notice he only has one game as black here? That seems odd.

Oct-29-11		waustad: This sample is hardly exhaustive.

Oct-29-11		Sho: Fine name for pun of the day: "Divine Intervention" or "Divinity" (around Christmas time). Which game?

Jun-18-12		SimonWebbsTiger: Nathan Divinsky passed away at the weekend. RIP

Jun-18-12		LoveThatJoker: RIP, Nathan Divinsky. LTJ

Jun-18-12		SimonWebbsTiger: A game which could be uploaded to the cg.com database can be found in the following obituary: http://stevegiddinschessblog.blogsp...

Jun-18-12		Cibator: Dr Divinsky, as he then was, came and delivered a lecture at my north London chess club one time in the mid-70s (when BTW he was still married to the future - but sadly very short-term - Canadian PM Kim Campbell). A memorable evening, full of wit and humour. One of the games he presented to us was Marshall vs Lasker, 1914 where we see Lasker deploying the kind of set-up that would become very popular about 30-40 years later, but which was regarded in 1914 as highly unorthodox. The other game the good doctor showed us was Janowski vs Ed Lasker, 1924 which he turned into a real chess shaggy-dog story. I'll never forget his comment as he made the final moves on the demo board: " ... and the game's drawn. SORRY!" RIP, Nathan.

Jun-19-12		wordfunph: rest in peace, master Divinsky.. http://www.fide.com/component/conte...

Jun-19-12		eternaloptimist: It's sad that divinsky died a few days ago but for me he will be remembered for co-authoring (w/ GM Keene) the book "warriors of the mind" in 1989. Divinsky was the mathematician that Keene chose to come up w/ a system for determining the best chess players of all time. Some people think they were biased in the book...perhaps so...still I think it's a very good book! Here is a link for different methods for comparing the best chess players in history. Choose for yourself which is the best. I personally like sonas' chessmetrics the best! Look under "statistical methods": http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp... There is also a book "who was the strongest? - warriors of the mind 2" that came out in 2006. Keene & divinsky again were the authors but this time they included sonas to help them.: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/18438... I haven't seen it yet but I plan to get it soon!

Jun-20-12		wordfunph: "Machines can certainly solve the mysteries of chess. As soon as this happens the game will vanish. It will become another mathematical theorem locked away in a cold book. Few will look at the body as it is buried. Few will know the details of the inhuman calculation. They will only know that a good and warm friend has perished." - Nathan Joseph Divinsky

Oct-29-12		whiteshark: <Player of the Day> RIP

Aug-12-16		diagonal: Biography and Obituary by John William Donaldson, including a simul game from Divinsky played vs. Reshevsky at Winnipeg in 1954, annotated by Divinsky: http://www.kwabc.org/archive/Homepa...

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