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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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Kibitzer's Corner
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Mar-31-09  Riverbeast: Mr. Day, I trust you saw the emails in <JonD'SouzaEva>'s post, from Einar Einarsson.

The ducks have come home to roost, it seems.

Now that this book has been exposed as a scam beyond all reasonable doubt, are you now willing to do what any journalist of integrity would do...and publish a retraction of your '61MG' review (in which you said the book is real) in your next chess column?

Mar-31-09  Ed Trice: <Riverbeast> You should know that Dr. Frank brady believes you are the one who has spoofed my email address on AOL and sent out the emails. You have "returned to the scene of the crime" by going up to him at the end of the talk and then asking him about "me" contacting him about the book.

We all know it was you. He described you as a "young scruffy-looking man, possibly from New England."

That's plenty of proof that it wasn't me, and it was you.

Mar-31-09  Riverbeast: <Ed Trice> I know you looked up my real identity and that it is YOU who described me as 'a scruffy young man from New England'

It's also painfully obvious that you made up lies and libelous accusations toward me, as you did to Labate, once we started getting closer and closer to the truth about you.

Now that Einar Einarsson has undeniably exposed you for the liar and the cheat you are.....I PRAY that you go to the police or the FBI with your b.s. desperate charges against me....So I can have you put away for good, you low life, corpse-eating scumbag

Mar-31-09  Ed Trice: <Riverbeast> Can you start by spelling the guy's name correctly at least? His name is not "Einar".

And I will forward the email sent to me by Dr. Frank Brady to anyone who emails me at GothicChessInfo@aol.com

Make sure you use the letter "i" and not the lower case "L" that Riverbeast uses to spoof my email address and send out fake correspondence in my name.

And if anyone wants to send me their address, i wil mail them a photocopy of the report on file with the FBI on Riverbeast.

It's an active, open file.

You are the one they will be contacting.

Mar-31-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: Trice accusing someone of wrongdoing.
Haha, that's rich.
Mar-31-09  Riverbeast: <And if anyone wants to send me their address, I will mail them a photocopy of the report on file with the FBI on Riverbeast.>

Can someone please get a copy of this report and let me know if they get it? I will give you my email address so you can forward it to me.

If a false charge has been filed by <Trice> against me to the FBI, I think I will need to contact the police myself.

How far do you want to take this <Trice>?

I have truth on my side...You have nothing but lies...And if you want to dig yourself in deeper be my guest.

Mar-31-09  timhortons: you guys are serious? FBI?

YOU MEAN LIKE AGENT SCULLY AND MULDER?

Mar-31-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: How does someone go from accusing another of being the perpetrator of a book scam, and the next moment is saying that the same book was written by Bobby Fischer? It's madness!
Mar-31-09  Riverbeast: Don't bother getting me the copy of the report....On this one, I'm willing to take Ed Trice's word for it....I believe that he did in fact file this charge.

Mr. Trice, I think it only fair to tell you that I have just filed a complaint myself to the FBI, informing them of the entire story, and telling them that if this charge has been filed against me, it is a false charge and I would like to prosecute it to the fullest extent allowable by law.

Perhaps we'll both be contacted now!

Mar-31-09  PinnedPiece: IMlday, I have been curious for some time about the copy of M61MGs that you purchased.

Could you indicate whether or not, when you obtained your copy, any external evidence of proof of authorship was provided to you?

If yes, are you able to say what?

If no, were you offered any further proof nevertheless?

Simple curiosity.

Mar-31-09  Riverbeast: And just so you know <Trice> I'm not one who usually likes to involve the police, but you've left me no choice but to fight fire with fire.

I'm going to give you one last chance to get out of this before it gets ugly.....Call the FBI, retract your charge, and post proof that the charge has been withdrawn.

If you do, I will not pursue this matter any further.

If you don't, then deal with the consequences

Mar-31-09  AnalyzeThis: Just wondering - when is Trice's blog going to be updated with his middle school days?
Mar-31-09  rookhouse: <Ed Trice: <Riverbeast> Can you start by spelling the guy's name correctly at least? His name is not "Einar".>

Now he's telling someone else how to spell their name. That's rich.

He gets even more ridiculous when completely busted and exposed.

Everyone in the entire world is lying except you, right Trice?

You are finally getting everything you deserve and you're too stupid to even know the gig is up.

Completely pathetic.

Mar-31-09  MageOfMaple: <Riverbeast> I am sending my own letter to the FBI about Trice and would like to be able to communicate with you. Can you make your email address available to me? At first I thought I would post my address and wait for you to write me, but then a Trice sockpuppet could write pretending to be you and I wouldn't be able to tell...
Mar-31-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: <Pinnedpiece> Proof no, but information I was curious about, that UBS was glad to transfer the estate to Miyoko who had then happily set up a trust for Jinky. I score that as a happy ending. In journalistic terms it's single sourced and necessarily anonymous information, however it would be odd for a source to make up something like that. <Riverbeast> "beyond all reasonable doubt" you say. Golly but you sure are sure with "passionate intensity" despite some weak points in the logic: like our wounded Fischer King himself not deigning to make a decisive public comment on the rumour. He looked sad, so case closed? Ed L. quotes Mr. E:
"...That he had supposedly written 12 pages foreword and preface dated Nov 9. 2007, while suffering in hospital is preposterous. It is therefore completely clear, beyond any doubt, the full truth and nothing but the truth, that..." Hey wait, where did that rumour come from? Who claimed Fischer while in the hospital had written a twelve page foreward? It's not in the book. The rumour is preposterous. No one who has the book would believe the rumour. But that rumour has nothing to do with the authorship of the book. Perhaps someone has added their own fanciful details about when and how in order to serve as a straw man which can be easily knocked down? Perhaps Ed L. should put up for context the letter to which Mr E. is responding.

Besides that, what kind of etiquette is evident from this bit: "He would very much like to know if somebody has ever seen a copy of it in print." So, can we deduce that Ed L. has solicited Mr. E's opinion without informing him that somebody (me) has not only seen but read a real 3D copy in print but does not feel defrauded in the slightest?

There are all sorts of unexplored possibilities.
Suppose for example Fischer had written commentary on the critical analysis which M60MG had provoked as it occurred over the years, say just stuffing his handwritten notes of rebuttal into some shoebox left in the Phillippines or Japan. He does mention some analysis was from his jail time. This variation would have the vast bulk of the labour done long before he even set foot in Iceland. It certainly wouldn't have required writing anything from his hospital bed. Ed T. ripping off Mr. E's photograph, if true, is quite deplorable, but proof of forgery it isn't.

Another possibility: Ed T. and Ed L. are the "Eds" of the book and secretly collaborating to keep up public interest in their product.. This variation was suspected by some when the authors of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" sued Dan Brown over "The Da Vinci Code" supposedly plagarizing their work. It made an entertaining if ludicrous court case and lots of free publicity.

I don't know. I don't even know why it matters.

The ducks are down to eight undecided.
Fortunately this year there is an even number.
The male mallards helmuts go from dark blue almost flourescent to that shiny green in a fast morph. There is also a new pair of maximus size Canada geese, her friendly, him more en guard.

Apr-01-09  rookhouse: Wow. Somebody needs to seriously lay off the cough medicine.

That's 60 seconds of my life I'll never get back.

Apr-01-09  PinnedPiece: <IMlday>

Thanks for the reply, about "Mr E". j' suis daccord on the photo issue, was not soliciting your views there...

"Mr L" has now assigned you a collaborator's role so don't expect courtesy of any kind from him. The groupies, as is evident, are not going to think for themselves on this issue.

Apr-01-09  Riverbeast: <IMLDay> The fact that you continue, in light of all the evidence, to go through contortions of logic and plausibility in order to defend this book's veracity, seems to confirm some of the worst fears about you regarding your association with this book.

You do what you want, <Lawrence Day>, and keep making your vacuous, Trice-like arguments. It's YOUR legacy, not mine....I'm just letting you know what a journalist of INTEGRITY, who did not have an apparent CONFLICT OF INTEREST, would do

<MageofMaple> Thank for the offer to help but I'm not interested in collaborating on this....Trice filed a false charge against me and this is strictly between me and him

Apr-01-09  PinnedPiece: <Riverbeast: <IMLDay> The fact that you continue, in light of all the evidence, to go through contortions of logic and plausibility in order to defend this book's veracity, seems to confirm some of the worst fears about you regarding your association with this book. You do what you want, <Lawrence Day>, and keep making your vacuous, Trice-like arguments. It's YOUR legacy, not mine....I'm just letting you know what a journalist of INTEGRITY, who did not have an apparent CONFLICT OF INTEREST, would do>

I don't see any reasoning of any kind in this post. Only emotion. This type of "argument" sways me--at least--not at all. Just what the heck does "all the evidence" prove anyway? I'd really like someone to lay it out clearly so I can match fact with theory.

.

Apr-01-09  Riverbeast: I'm not talking to you, <Pinned Piece> I'm talking to <IMLDay>.

If anybody seems to be the 'groupie' here, it seems to be you....Keep defending <Day> and <Trice> all you want, but don't expect me to play along with your game...There are enough hucksters and b.s. artists to deal with here as it is

Apr-01-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <Riverbeast> Yeah, I'm starting to think the same as you. Check what <PinnedPiece> posted in responce to something I posted in another page:

<Chancho: And Trice has accused Riverbeast of pretending to be Ed Trice and contacting Frank Brady...>

<Pinned Piece: Funny thing is, <Riverbeast> certainly has the balls to do something like that, but to me it is enough out of character that I believe you have the germ of a very good point...>

Apr-01-09  PinnedPiece: <If anybody seems to be the 'groupie' here, it seems to be you....Keep defending <Day> and <Trice> all you want, >

I think I see it from your point of view, finally. This should be welcome news to you.

====<Riverbeast> Algorithm for Trust===

Case 1. Agree/sympathize with Me:
:: You are rational, honest and trustworthy, dependable, and most important, Right.

Case 2. Agree/sympathize with Trice:
:: You are irrational, dishonest and untrustworthy, undependable, and most important, Wrong.

Case 3. Express neutrality and caution:
::Jump ==> Case 2.

..

Apr-01-09  Riverbeast: <Pinned Piece> You are not expressing neutrality and caution, you are also ignoring the evidence, which was substantial before Einarrson's email, and irrefutable now.

I'm not worried about YOUR possible conflicts of interest...You're a bit player and a groupie as far as I'm concerned

Apr-01-09  PinnedPiece: <Chancho> let me help you along on the "enough out of character" bit.

<Riverbeast> is on a crusade against fraud. How or why could he possibly want to perpetrate one himself????

Anyone who thinks about it can see the contradiction in that. Except Trice, of course.

The statement about the "nerve to do it" says I can tell he is a very determined person and fearless to a certain extent.

Do I have to spell everything out for you too?

Apr-01-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <PinnedPiece> Don't bother. I see what you are about. No need to discuss anything further with you.
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