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 1,256  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 P Haley   ½-½ 18 1962 Canadian Open A06 Reti Opening 4. L Day vs H O Payne 1-0 14 1962 Canadian Open B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein 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. G Fuster vs L Day   ½-½ 55 1965 Ontario Open A44 Old Benoni Defense 10. L Day vs D Grimshaw 1-0 15 1965 Ontario Open B12 Caro-Kann Defense 11. L Day vs V Pedersen 1-0 24 1965 RA CC-ch D51 Queen's Gambit Declined 12. R Rodgers vs L Day 0-1 26 1965 RA Club Championship B06 Robatsch 13. L Day vs R Draxl   0-1 46 1965 Ontario Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 14. L Day vs I Zalys   ½-½ 52 1965 Montreal-Ontario match B28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation 15. I Theodorovich vs L Day   1-0 31 1965 ON-op A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 16. L Day vs A Kalotay 0-1 37 1965 Ontario Open E82 King's Indian, Samisch, double Fianchetto Variation 17. L Day vs T Ackermann 1-0 45 1966 Ottawa-Montreal m C00 French Defense 18. L Day vs R Simpson   1-0 36 1966 League Ottawa-Cornwall C29 Vienna Gambit 19. L Day vs A Portigal 1-0 32 1966 Ottawa Championship A07 King's Indian Attack 20. I Zalys vs L Day   ½-½ 58 1966 Ottawa Open A04 Reti Opening 21. L Day vs I Martin   ½-½ 60 1966 Ontario Team Final Ottawa-Hart House B23 Sicilian, Closed 22. J Matynia vs L Day 0-1 37 1966 Ottawa A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 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 1,256

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 54 OF 81 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-06-08    DrGrobb: IM Day,is your book being sold here in the states,or can we get a copy from you? Jan-06-08    IMlday: <Kajtek> Thanks. It grew on its own. <refutor> 5..Ne7 may be even better especially since there is less theory. Biyiasis played it regularly. <DrGrobb> You can only order it if you're in the U.S. Try http://strategygames.ca/ <Eggman> Just so long as you don't osmose the errs. Jan-06-08    DrGrobb: Thank You,IM Day. Jan-07-08    LPeristy: Lawrence, I read on chesstalk.ca that you introduced bughouse chess to North America. Did you also come up with the name, "Bughouse" or is that what the Russian masters called it? Jan-08-08    Eggman: <<Just so long as you don't osmose the errs.>> Hmmm. Interesting. Jan-09-08    IMlday: <LPeristy> I think Nana Alexandria just called it 'Doubles' like in tennis. Where the name 'bughouse' came from I have no idea. Maybe it is derived from the 'fleahouse' which was slang then for the 42nd St. club in New York? <Eggman> The thing is that there is limited space in the memory bank. Using it to recall what not to do is less efficient than recalling what to do. In general optimism produces more points than pessimism. Jan-09-08    Eggman: I was going to ask what 'Bughouse Chess' was, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughou... (isn't wikipedia awesome?) In Toronto in the '80s me and the other kids played this a quite a lot, along with the occasional game of the chess variant Kriegspiel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegs...). I was never too sure of the value of 'Bughouse Chess' but it sure was a fun diversion. I introduced 'Bughouse Chess' (which I've always known as 'Double Chess') to friends (not chess players, probably all about 800 strength) at a new year's eve party back in 2000 and they loved it! We played game after game for about 7 hours (!), only taking a half hour break around midnight to join in the new year's celebrations. They in was right back to bughouse until about 5 in the morning. There are, by the way, seemingly endless variants on our game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_... Jan-09-08    Eggman: <IMlday> I guess I can see what you are saying, but would it not be of value to see the kinds of attacks and winning combinations available to your opponent so that you can easily see these things during a game and sidestep them? Jan-09-08    lentil: back in the olden days, in vancouver, around 1975, 'bughouse' was called 'siamese'. it used to get out of hand, with teams of 4 to 8 boards . ever pitched a piece? 8 feet? (i need a knight! somebody send me a knight!) ahh, those were the days. Jan-09-08    Eggman: <lentil> Yes, I remember that kind of thing too! And I thought I remembered it also being called Siamese Chess. Jan-30-08    refutor: I see you're playing in Guelph this weekend...good luck! I'm playing there too but a couple sections lower than you are :) Feb-01-08    BIDMONFA: Lawrence Day DAY, Lawrence A. New photo http://www.bidmonfa.com/day_lawrenc... _ Feb-01-08    Wild Bill: Many happy returns to the Day, sir. Feb-01-08    Caissanist: One thing I liked about Bughouse/Siamese is it's much easier to get up to a decent playing level, and so beginners and more advanced players can play it together. When I was in college I had a girlfriend who really wasn't very good at chess but would gamely come to the club sometimes. She almost always lost at "real" chess, but she did fine and had fun playing Bughouse with me; she would simply take everything I gave her and plop it in front of her king, a simple and reasonably effective strategy so long as your partner doesn't do the same. Those were the days... Happy birthday to IM Day, and many thanks for your fine contributions to this website! Feb-01-08    Benzol: Many happy returns. :) Feb-01-08    Open Defence: Happy Birthday!!! Feb-01-08    Domdaniel: And here's to the Day that's in it. Thanks for all the fine advice. I believe I haven't osmosed a single err for weeks now. Of course, the old pre-osmosed ones are still in there, begging to be repeated. Does *anyone* know what a 'happy return' is, btw? Feb-01-08    Open Defence: <Does *anyone* know what a 'happy return' is, btw?> a tax refund Feb-01-08    karnak64: Ah, a day of Day's: and may the Day be blessed for it. I think a "happy return" is when you get a full refund, and an "unhappy return" is when they deduct postage and handling. Feb-01-08    satch boogie: Happy Birthday Lawrence Feb-01-08    wolfmaster: Happy birthday Mr. Day, and may many more follow ! Feb-01-08    Knight13: Yeah happpy birthday, dude. Feb-01-08    duchamp64: Lawrence: Have a great Day! Feb-01-08    keypusher: Happy birthday, Mr. Day! Feb-01-08    Stonehenge: Mr. Day, I wish you an awesome birthday! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 81) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 54 OF 81 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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