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Lawrence Day
L Day 
Photo copyright © 2008 Julia Day.   

Number of games in database: 1,256
Years covered: 1962 to 2015
Last FIDE rating: 2214 (2200 rapid)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2435
Overall record: +667 -276 =300 (65.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 13 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (168) 
    B21 B23 B20 B25 B50
 King's Indian Attack (76) 
    A07 A08
 French Defense (53) 
    C00 C02 C12 C10 C11
 French (43) 
    C00 C12 C11 C10
 Uncommon Opening (43) 
    A00 B00
 Caro-Kann (29) 
    B10 B12 B11 B17 B13
With the Black pieces:
 Robatsch (87) 
    B06
 Sicilian (79) 
    B43 B27 B33 B45 B23
 Old Indian (62) 
    A53 A55
 Queen's Pawn Game (48) 
    A46 A40 A41 D02 A45
 Ruy Lopez (46) 
    C92 C60 C91 C67 C69
 Uncommon Opening (33) 
    A00 B00
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   L Prins vs L Day, 1968 0-1
   L Day vs T Koliada, 1994 1-0
   L Day vs J Berry, 1975 1-0
   L Day vs Benko, 1980 1-0
   L Day vs Timman, 1980 1/2-1/2
   L Day vs I Morovic Fernandez, 1978 1-0
   L Day vs G Johnstone, 1994 1-0
   L Day vs Suttles, 1969 1-0
   L Day vs J Stopa, 1988 1-0
   E Preissmann vs L Day, 1978 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Canadian Championship (1991)
   Canadian Championship (1972)
   Canadian Open (1980)
   Canadian Championship (1978)
   Toronto Closed (1982)
   Canadian Championship (1994)
   Canadian Championship (1975)
   Canadian Championship (1996)
   Canadian Championship (1981)
   Canadian Championship (1969)
   Dubai Olympiad (1986)
   Canadian Open (1995)
   Canadian Open (2007)
   Yerevan Olympiad (1996)
   Buenos Aires Olympiad (1978)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   0ZeR0's collected games volume 47 by 0ZeR0
   The Big Clamp by Ken by fredthebear
   The Big Clamp Compiled by Kenilworthian by trh6upsz
   The Big Clamp by kenilworthian
   1994 Canadian championship by gauer
   1996 Canadian championship by gauer
   1975 Canadian championship by gauer
   1972 Canadian championship by gauer
   1978 Canadian championship by gauer
   1981 Canadian championship by gauer

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Grand Pacific Open
   P Kalisvaart vs L Day (Apr-06-15) 1/2-1/2
   L Day vs J Kenney (Apr-05-15) 1/2-1/2
   J Cao vs L Day (Apr-04-15) 1-0
   L Day vs A He (Apr-04-15) 1-0
   L Day vs J Roback (Apr-04-15) 1/2-1/2

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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  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. I Theodorovich vs L Day 1-0301962Canadian OpenA05 Reti Opening
2. G Danilov vs L Day  1-0571962Canadian OpenE43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation
3. L Day vs H O Payne 1-0141962Canadian OpenB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
4. L Day vs P Haley  ½-½181962Canadian OpenA06 Reti Opening
5. L Day vs R Rodgers  0-1271962Canadian OpenD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. L Day vs D Grimshaw  ½-½421963Ontario OpenE80 King's Indian, Samisch Variation
7. L Day vs Suttles 0-1391964Canadian OpenB06 Robatsch
8. Z Sarosy vs L Day  1-0481964Canadian OpenE71 King's Indian, Makagonov System (5.h3)
9. L Day vs V Pedersen 1-0241965RA CC-chD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
10. G Fuster vs L Day  ½-½551965Ontario OpenA44 Old Benoni Defense
11. I Theodorovich vs L Day  1-0311965ON-opA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
12. L Day vs I Zalys  ½-½521965Montreal-Ontario matchB28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation
13. R Rodgers vs L Day 0-1261965RA Club ChampionshipB06 Robatsch
14. L Day vs R Draxl  0-1461965Ontario ChampionshipA07 King's Indian Attack
15. L Day vs D Grimshaw 1-0151965Ontario OpenB12 Caro-Kann Defense
16. L Day vs A Kalotay 0-1371965Ontario OpenE82 King's Indian, Samisch, double Fianchetto Variation
17. I Zalys vs L Day  ½-½581966Ottawa OpenA04 Reti Opening
18. L Day vs I Martin  ½-½601966Ontario Team Final Ottawa-Hart HouseB23 Sicilian, Closed
19. J Matynia vs L Day 0-1371966OttawaA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
20. L Day vs A Portigal 1-0321966Ottawa ChampionshipA07 King's Indian Attack
21. L Day vs R Simpson  1-0361966League Ottawa-CornwallC29 Vienna Gambit
22. L Day vs T Ackermann 1-0451966Ottawa-Montreal mC00 French Defense
23. L Day vs B Leckie 1-0371966Canadian OpenB12 Caro-Kann Defense
24. Ivkov vs L Day 1-0341966Canadian OpenC60 Ruy Lopez
25. L Day vs C Coudari  1-0421966Canadian OpenB12 Caro-Kann Defense
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Mar-15-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: Thanks <youvsyourself> good idea.

This is the original post without the address.

Ed Trice: <Rookhouse - Won't dare answer to the fact that Dr. Frank Brady admitted that Trice approached him about helping to promote "My 61 Memorable Games" before it was ever in the public eye.>

I emailed Dr. Frank Brady about this very same thing recently. His email address is [redacted] if you want to contact him and verify what I am posting here.

I met him at the World Open, so I was surprised he would say anything about the book involving me. He said he received an email from "me", and after further discussion just the other day, we both agree that the person who emailed him was NOT me, bit someone claiming to be me.

He recalled sending me an email a few months after the first email the imposter wrote, but it was not a REPLY to my email address, he COMPOSED it to my email address. He was talking about things I supposedly discussed with him.

I replied back "What? I don't know what you are talking about."

He now recalls this and admits he was erroneous in his assumption.

Furthermore, he states this was not an ANNOUCEMENT at the chess club, like Riverbeast claims it was. Dr. Brady said he was approached by a "young scruffy-looking man, possibly from New England" and asked that question privately. That person is Riverbeast.

Riverbeast is probably the original person who tried to spoof an email from me to Dr. Brady. I asked Dr. Brady to foward that email to a former Federal Prosecutor who now is an advisor for the FBI.

Mar-15-09  Jim Bartle: Good decision.

Just to be clear, as I find the presentation a little confusing, in IM Day's post above, everything past the name "Ed Trice" is from Trice, not Mr. Day.

Mar-15-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <IMDay> I was checking pg 1 of your page, and I was wondering if you are still working on your games collection?
Mar-16-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: Well that was nostalgic rereading page one from 2004. :) Yes, I still sometimes work on the book but lots of other stuff intervenes. Sometimes quite interesting, like I serendipitously received a review copy of The Posthuman Dada Guide by Andrei Codrescu from Princeton University Press. It starts "This is a guide for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life. It is not advisable, nor was it ever, to lead a Dada life." The centrepiece to a LOT of musery is a Tzara-Lenin Zurich 1916 chess game (dadaist vs communist)which is ungooglable so forget peaking ahead to the result--it's not over yet. Anyway I'm enjoying it so far; it's really funny.

It's courting time for the ducks. Some couples have already paired off. Last year it took a whole month to sort out the flock. Macho mallard male competitions include the "You shut up!" "No you shut up" game where they try to close each others bills with their own. Whichever gets the outside grip can push the other one off the shore into the water. The females watch carefully, keeping score and evaluating thoughtfully.

Mar-16-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Open Defence: <It's courting time for the ducks. Some couples have already paired off. Last year it took a whole month to sort out the flock. Macho mallard male competitions include the "You shut up!" "No you shut up" game where they try to close each others bills with their own. Whichever gets the outside grip can push the other one off the shore into the water. The females watch carefully, keeping score and evaluating thoughtfully> a courting ritual that deserves emulation by Male Homo Sapiens :)
Mar-16-09  Jim Bartle: "Macho mallard male competitions include the "You shut up!" "No you shut up" game where they try to close each others bills with their own."

As good a description of kibitzing at chessgames as I've read.

Mar-16-09  timhortons: duck mating season.

I presume the duck in Asia mate in the same way with the duck in North America.

I always pity a duck when it mate with a drake.A large heavy drake step into a ducks back for a certain period of time before it engage in copulation.Sometimes that mating ritual hurt the duck, it takes the skin off the ducks back especially if the drake is so heavy.

I'll sell a book on ducks, My book has no copyright claim, no publisher list and the editor are anonymous-

I have friends in senate hall, friends in hall of justice, the superfriends are my friends too, it include batman, superman, wonderwoman and plasticman.Ill also include wolverine and the 3 ninja turtles.

Like some pizza?

Me i prefer poutine, thanks.

Im day please dont delete the post, just for laugh, Montreal style:)

Mar-16-09  Riverbeast: Wow, <Trice> is there no bottom to the depths you'll sink to?

<Furthermore, he states this was not an ANNOUCEMENT at the chess club, like Riverbeast claims it was. Dr. Brady said he was approached by a "young scruffy-looking man, possibly from New England" and asked that question privately. That person is Riverbeast>

I never said he made an ANNOUNCEMENT... What I said was that he confirmed it was you who approached him, Trice!

<Riverbeast is probably the original person who tried to spoof an email from me to Dr. Brady. I asked Dr. Brady to foward that email to a former Federal Prosecutor who now is an advisor for the FBI>

Oh, so now you're going to claim that I, who's been arguing the book is a clear fraud the whole time, imitated you and approached Brady about marketing the book.

You couldn't pin it on Labate, so now you're going to try to pin it on me?? Ingenious!

You go ahead and run to the FBI....I'm going to love this, and I'll be more than happy to talk to them if they want to talk to me.

Filing false charges is a felony, Trice...You try to play those games with me and I'll laugh my arse off when they haul you to prison

Mar-16-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <Persons of any level of intelligence are vulnerable to deception by experienced con artists. Confidence tricks exploit human weaknesses like greed, dishonesty, vanity, but also virtues like honesty, compassion, or a naïve expectation of good faith on the part of the con artist.>

<Just as there is no typical profile for swindlers, neither is there one for their victims. Virtually anyone can fall prey to fraudulent crimes. … Certainly victims of high-yield investment frauds may possess a level of greed which exceeds their caution as well as a willingness to believe what they want to believe. However, not all fraud victims are greedy, risk-taking, self-deceptive individuals looking to make a quick dollar. Nor are all fraud victims naive, uneducated, or elderly.>

<Confidence tricksters often rely on the greed and dishonesty of the mark, who may attempt to out-cheat the con artist, only to discover that he or she has been manipulated into losing from the very beginning. This is such a general principle in confidence tricks that there is a saying among con men that "you can't cheat an honest man.">

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confid...

Mar-16-09  Shams: <there is a saying among con men that "you can't cheat an honest man.">

they say that to justify their own actions. it's total crap, of course.

Mar-16-09  Shams: <Riverbeast> this is truly delicious. an early Xmas present!
Mar-16-09  blacksburg: duck fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkbK...

Mar-16-09  blacksburg: i lived in Memphis when i was a little kid and we went on a field trip to see this, best field trip ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd3e...

Mar-16-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <blacksburg> I think you'll like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipm5...

Mar-17-09  blacksburg: <you spilt my pint> heehee
Mar-17-09  timhortons: Duck season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gTw...

People who fell trap to a scam are greedy people, just like these duck!@

click on the link.

Mar-20-09  MageOfMaple: Ducks are neet. Ducks are fun. I like ducks!
Mar-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: hi lawrence-thanks for your comments on my pterodactyl game v rogers-you will see that after the most recent update i now have a decent number of games up on chessgames.com ( by decent i mean over 1000 like yourself)
Mar-21-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: <ray> Somewhere I may have a picture of us inspecting the British Museum's pterodactyl display circa winter '81. It certainly was a useful line for Swisses then. I was surprised how good your openings were as a 13-14 year old; also noted the early lion vs Sugden.
Mar-28-09  Ed Trice: Hello IM Day,

You have run into the trolls on here, no doubt. I don't understand why they derive perverse enjoyment out of fabricating lies and trying to "take credit away" from some of the obvious things I have done. Surely GM Keene would be able to confirm from colleague Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer that I was of some assistance to Jonthan in his quest to solve checkers (many detractors on here say otherwise).

Anyway, here is an article about the $15,000,000 I raised to get Karpov to play Fischer in Gothic Chess.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KQ8DMAfZC...

You're probably well aware the Phildadelphia Inquirer would not print any such thing without 3 confirmed sources. Susan Polgar was one of those sources, and she is cited in the article. I also had to show copies of the account statements with the money in place, and they went to great lengths to get overseas confirmation of the account.

This is from a blog that contains a list of some of the things I have done that made the news, or was published, or covered by the media in some way. From my chess program that people claim I didn't write (yet I sat next to Hans Berliner at HiTech's last tournament while my program played in the same event), to the patent I supposedly never had, the list goes on and on.

http://edtrice.blogspot.com/

Don't let the clowns on here try and tell you what I did or did not do.

Mar-29-09  capatal: <Playing False>

Trading false with a
Lost champion's great name
Shall bring to those guilty
Real time misery and shame

Mar-29-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: we need to bo back to the british museum of natural history for some more pterodactyl shots-i am not sure where the originals are now- tho i do have pics of myself with a t rex and a triceratops-thanks for the comments about my juvenile openings-one thing i did do was -like hubner many years later-take on c3 in the nimzo without waiting for a3-just to make sure the doubled pawns arose!

re ed trice and chinook-i dont recall but i can check with jonathan. btw i have no opinion yet in this debate since i havent seen the product which is causing the controversy. a quick update for the perplexed wd be helpful and much appreciated!

Mar-29-09  Ed Trice: Hi Ray,

Some of the trolls on here insist that I claimed to have written the "Checkers World Champion" program. I never made that claim. I did co-author a program named "World Championship Checkers" with my friend Gil Dodgen. N.B. "-ship" changes the whole meaning!

Anyway, it's a free download at http://www.WorldChampionshipChecker...

Next item for the checkers pions: they say I never helped Jonathan Schaeffer at all. Yet he mentions myself (and Gil) on his website under the "thank you" link

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/...

It's under the category of "Database Verification".

Jonathan was also nice enough to recount how Gil and I, in 2001, found 89 erroneous positions in the Chinook endgame databases (what chess players call tablebases the checkers world calls databases).

Had Jonathan built his 9- and 10-piece databases off of this, they would have been incorrect, and his checkers proof would have been faulty.

Fortunately, this was fixed in 2001 before he started the big push to solve checkers.

Jonathan explains all of this in his new book. I'm in the index, so it's very easy to look all of this up, yet the trolls here continue to say "No you didn't."

They're all very childish.

Anyway, this same cluster of people are trying to say I never went to Iceland to meet Fischer. It's well documented that I have.

Sorry to bog down the page with such a trivial entry. It's just that Lawrence, in his review of "My 61 Memorable Games", has inadvertantly attracted the same collection of low-lifes to badger him.

I just wanted to let him know, he is dealing with people who never let the facts get in the way of their own far-flung, ridiculous conclusions.

Mar-29-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: <ed trice> any chance of sending me a review copy c/o the london times? the address is

ray keene chess correspondent c/o the times 1 pennington st london uk e19xn

great if thats possible

Mar-29-09  AnalyzeThis: <Ed Trice: Anyway, this same cluster of people are trying to say I never went to Iceland to meet Fischer. It's well documented that I have. >

Is there a witness other than yourself who can verify that you met Bobby Fischer?

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