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| Mar-23-10 | | TheFocus: <sdrumovic> I will check in my British Chess Magazine. Have it for you tomorrow. Have you tried finding tournament cross-tables that took place in England at BritBase.com? |
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| Mar-24-10 | | sdrumovic: Yes TheFocus, I've already checked on Britbase: there's nothing on Southsea 1952; the only references to that tournament I could find in the net are: http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic...
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/s... I also saw your answer on Romi pages; thank you for your help. |
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| Mar-24-10 | | TheFocus: <sdrumovic> I must apologize. Last night we had testing in my class and I got home too late to check my BCMs. Will check them tonight. |
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| Mar-25-10 | | TheFocus: <sdrumovic> Southsea was a 10 round Swiss event with 36 players. Do you have a fax number that I can send the cross-table to? Post it here and then when I get it, you can delete it. Yanofsky won the tournament.
Do you have access to British Chess Magazine, June 1952, pg. 157-164. |
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| Mar-26-10 | | sdrumovic: Thank you TheFocus. I have no fax (and it would be an international call!). I have no easy access to any archive of the BCM, or Gaige's or DiFelice's books. I'm collecting data from italian tournaments, and big tournaments played by italians abroad, for a project of the Italian Chess Federation (FSI). FSI has a good library, but its site is not in the town I live in and it is still uncategorized since the last moving. The output of my research will be soon published on the FSI site; as it'll be launched, I hope to receive contributions from people having access to the afore-mentioned sources, and more. Instead of a fax, you can send the material to the address given in the Games Archive page (top of the page, just under the banners), another project I'm running for the federation:
http://www.federscacchi.it/str_arch...
Thank you again. |
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| Mar-27-10 | | TheFocus: <Sdrumovic> If there is a mailing address, I will mail you the cross-table and the article from BCM, about nine pages. I still have to put in the Hastings B cross-table, but not until Monday. |
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| Mar-29-10 | | sdrumovic: Thank you the focus. Please write me to the address: partite@federscacchi.it |
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Jul-15-10
 | | GrahamClayton: Yanofsky's obituary notice from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/10/a... |
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| Mar-26-11 | | DiscoJew: Winnipeg's Finest!
We hold a tournament annually in his honor called the "Abe Yanofky Memorial"
He was a kind, brilliant man that everyone in our chess circles loved. He was a respected lawyer, a Queen's Council, a Mayor, Canada's and the Commonwealth's first Grandmaster, He won the British Championship while studying law there, beat Botvinnik in Gronigen in a beautiful White side of a Ruy Lopez, was in the Canadian Navy...the list goes on and on. What a stand out guy! Rest in peace Daniel Abraham Yanofky! |
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Mar-26-11
 | | Penguincw: R.I.P. Daniel Yanofsky.
< (citizen of Canada) > Hey,I live in Canada too... |
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| Mar-26-11 | | Gersch: I have never heard of this player, however his endgame are of the likes of Smyslov and Capablanca. |
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Mar-26-12
| | Penguincw: R.I.P. Yanofsky. |
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Mar-26-14
 | | ketchuplover: ...and thanks for your contribution to chess history |
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| Jun-22-14 | | ljfyffe: Abe won the Canadian chess championship when, in 1943, it was held in New Brunswick at Dalhousie, in the northern part of the province. |
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| Sep-30-15 | | zanzibar: From the bio:
<If he had devoted himself entirely to chess he would certainly have gone much further.> I find this a bit gratuitous for a bio - it goes without saying. Are we going to put such a comment in all non-professional player's bios? Also, <As a player his greatest strength was in the endgame.> may be true, but since it isn't an obvious fact it would be nice to back it up with a ref (or example games if said opinion was formed exclusively by whoever wrote the bio). |
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| Sep-30-15 | | zanzibar: Something like the quote in his obit by Reschevsky would be better, with regards to his playing skills: <Samuel Reshevsky wrote in his book ''How Chess Games Are Won'' that Mr. Yanofsky was a tough opponent. ''His style is defensive but quite accurate,'' he wrote. ''When given the slightest opportunity, he is strong enough to beat the best.''> |
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| Mar-05-16 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Abe Yanofsky. |
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| Mar-26-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Daniel Yanofsky. |
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Jan-26-20
 | | offramp: The USCF wasn't the only federation operating on a shoe string in
the 1940s. The ONLY reason Abe Yanofsky was able to play at Groningen
1946 (where he only scored 8.5/19 BUT beat Botvinnik) was that he was
in uniform in France when he heard about the event and as the
currently reigning Canadian champion (there was a grand total of 1
championship during the war and Abe won it) had contacted the
organizers who told him that if he was able to get confirmation from
the Chess Federation of Canada that he was their official rep they
would give him an invitation to play.
The total cost to the CFC of Yanofsky's participation was the cost of
the return telegram which was good since that was about all they could
afford at the time. Yanofsky had to buy his own train ticket from
Paris to Groningen (the CFC could never have sent him had he been
demobilized and sent back to Canada 3 months earlier) and his date
with history. (He said he was not the only master in military service
at that tournament but didn't say who else.)
For what it's worth that single win changed Yanofsky's life - after
his military discharge he attended law school on the Canadian version
of the GI bill and while he was establishing his legal career he (like
every other newly graduated lawyer) needed clients and Yanofsky told
how the late Joe Dremen (who played the Canadian role of Col.
Edmondson in the US in the immediate postwar era) contacted many of
the movers and shakers in the Winnipeg business community saying "you
want a smart lawyer? This young man beat the best the Russian's have
at chess! How much smarter can you get than that?) [I heard this story direct from Yanofsky when he was trying to
convince an up and coming junior - 2350 at age 16 - to stay in
school rather than dropping out to play chess full time. Yanofsky's
point was that he had done financially much better from chess than
Fischer - who was the phenom's idol - had ever done which was true as
it launched his career as one of Manitoba's top lawyers and later
mayor of his home town] |
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| Dec-26-21 | | Albertan: Canada’s first chess prodigy and Grandmaster still commands International respect: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/puz... |
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Apr-08-22
 | | Tabanus: My eyesight is failing me, is the tiny square in the upper corner a photo of him? |
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Apr-08-22
 | | moronovich: Yes, that is him, <Tabanus> ! |
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Apr-09-22
| | Tabanus: <moro> Ok, thanks. I can see him now with my magnifying glass ;) |
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| Dec-17-22 | | Refused: Any relationship to Nikki Yanofsky? |
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May-09-24
 | | perfidious: A far more youthful image of Yanofsky may be found in the link below, from the 1939 Olympiad: http://www.ara.org.ar/chs/ajedrez/p... |
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