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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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FIDE player card for Lawrence Day

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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Apr-06-09  Mage of Maple: <Riverbeast: The last lying gasps of a cornered scam artist>

Indeed. I started to post a response to this latest evasion and then I remembered my own point from weeks ago (that Ed deleted of course) ... Trying to debate facts with Trice is less productive than debating the meaning of life with a pistachio nut.

Anyone who has followed any part of Trice's illustrious career knows what he is about.

Apr-06-09  Ed Trice: Well can somebody tell me why Labate was so mad, or not? And who paid me money for these books?

Answer = nobody.

As for my illustrious career, anyone want to see how badly "Mage of Maple's" program lost in the Gothic Chess Computer World Championships? Talk about embarassing for him.

http://edtrice.blogspot.com/

Apr-06-09  Ed Trice: And who started this poll

http://poll.pollcode.com/jyhU

anyway? Wasn't it Riverbeast?

124 people think the book is the real deal.
46 think it isn't.

Posters from all over the world share the same view as International Master Lawrence Day --- the book was written by Fischer.

All of you little whiny pissants who haven't seen it or read it, your opinion has no merit.

Apr-06-09  Shams: <All of you little whiny pissants who haven't seen it or read it, your opinion has no merit.>

...unless you're one of the 124 who thinks it's the "real deal", presumably.

Apr-06-09  Jim Bartle: "All of you little whiny pissants who haven't seen it or read it, your opinion has no merit."

That is an outright ridiculous statement, maybe the first of no possible merit I've read from Trice.

We "whiny little pissants" DO NOT HAVE the opportunity to read it, because it is not for sale through any standards means, and there is no information anywhere concerning how to get it. That fact in itself is enough to suspect it is not the "real deal."

Apr-06-09  Ed Trice: There is one person who has the book that spoke against it. From the polling site, you have to scroll down a bit to find it

<From Bill H. on April 6, 2009 at 6:23 pm. IP Logged, 116.227.214.x Report Abuse

Have and love the book.

From noname on April 5, 2009 at 2:54 pm. IP Logged, 192.251.226.x Report Abuse

I thought it might be a hoax but someone I play chess with now has the book. To me the proof is how well the book is done and how much it sounds like Bobby. No hoax.

From M. W. on April 4, 2009 at 10:44 am. IP Logged, 173.49.70.x Report Abuse

Labate is a psycho. Stay away from this guy. He freaked when someone didn't like a book he received from him and killed his eBay score.

From Allan McDevitt on April 3, 2009 at 10:52 pm. IP Logged, 212.24.147.x Report Abuse

The posts on chessgames.com vs. this poll are in almost complete conflict. I can only conclude a small number of people on chessgames have more than 1 account and probably lots of duplicated accounts. The same people post all of the trash talk.

This poll shows the world's comments which are much wider. I'm one of the many who have the book, enjoy the book, believe it was Fischer, and don't care what a few narrow minded people think.

From Just Kevin on April 3, 2009 at 7:22 pm. IP Logged, 213.189.20.x Report Abuse

I have the book. I read it thoroughly as a skeptic. I don't care who says somebody emailed one picture to somebody else. That doesn't explain how such a great book came to be. This book has Fischer written all over it.

From Russ on April 2, 2009 at 11:12 pm. IP Logged, 209.162.35.x Report Abuse

Maybe someone should sell directions from Milton Keynes to Jon D'Souza-Eva's house.

From Alton Meyer on April 2, 2009 at 10:26 pm. IP Logged, 202.75.39.x Report Abuse

I put no faith in the Labate postings. Too one sided to be believed. He does come off sounding like a crackpot. I might otherwise have bought stuff from him, no way, not now.

From Boatrocker on March 20, 2009 at 11:29 am. IP Logged, 89.248.169.x Report Abuse

I guess I'm the boatrocker of the group. I have the book but I don't think Fischer wrote it. It's way too big for him to have done while he was on his deathbed. Don't get me wrong, it's a great book and very nicely put together. But I can't see how Bobby did it.>

Apr-06-09  Jim Bartle: What I meant was it was possibly the first outright ridiculous comment which you didn't even have to think about before saying, "Give me a break."
Apr-06-09  madlydeeply: you want the facts? I'll give you the facts.

(1) The Givenness of the Given is I Think therefore I am.

(2) Is gravity a sucking or a pulling?

(3) "strong" and "weak" atomic forces prove that noone knows how protons work.

(4) Cats own you.

(5) Everything a dog does is a grift to get food.

(6) Every present standard will soon be obsolete.

(7) The hippies are still around they are New Agers and just as annoying.

(8) How could everybody be an "indian warrior" in a past life?

Apr-06-09  madlydeeply: (9) If every time you go backwards a generation your ancestors increase by the power of two, why were there less people before?

in other words.

I was pretty much related to every single person alive in the year 330 B.C.

Apr-06-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: That poll Trice likes to talk so much about, first appeared on March 16, 2009.

Trice had last posted on March 15th and reappeared ten days later on March 25th.

And he knew about the poll.

Maybe he read up everything from the last nine days and found it.

But on March 16th when said poll was first introduced, <hackmate> showed up on the scene.

Very interesting.

Apr-06-09  Jim Bartle: I love how Trice, under the pretext of posting ONE comment from a person who thinks the book is not by Fischer (but a great book!), manages to post five which support his position.
Apr-06-09  AnalyzeThis: Einar Einarsson represents game, set, and match.
Apr-06-09  timhortons: <madlydeeply > could it be possible to be a duck in a past life?
Apr-06-09  PinnedPiece: <madlydeeply: you want the facts? I'll give you the facts.

(2) Is gravity a sucking or a pulling? >

Its a warping. Like when you leave your breadboard outside in the rain for a week.

.

Apr-07-09  PinnedPiece: <Augalv> began the poll after my suggestion as <Pinhead> (title bestowed by loveable <Travis Bickle>) and after I warned anybody that did so that they would be subject to heckling and abuse....

It hasn't been so bad for him to this point.

The actual commenters have certainly been subject of abuse. Anyone who claims to have the book is immediately identified as <Ed Trice> by the Fischer page <Group of Six>.

(Wish I had the creativity of <ET> if indeed he is writing all those different posts.)

.

Apr-07-09  Mage of Maple: He's too busy revolutionizing Chess, colonizing Mars, and helping old ladies cross the street.
Apr-07-09  Jim Bartle: Art VanDeLay, the importer-exporter?
Apr-07-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Ted Rice, the inventor of Gothic tic-tac-toe.
Apr-07-09  PinnedPiece: <Mage:What next? I'm ugly and my mother dresses me funny?>

No, he's only into falsehoods.

.

:-)
.

Apr-07-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: LMAO!

http://media.photobucket.com/image/...

Apr-07-09  Jim Bartle: That is pretty mean-spirited stuff on the page chancho links to. Over the top.
Apr-07-09  Dredge Rivers: <chancho> <Jim Bartle>

Can't we all just get along?

Apr-07-09  Jim Bartle: Piggy: I was referring to the text of the page you linked to. The writing was just nasty and arrogant, really condescending toward "Weinstein." Not like the Fischer of My60, but I guess there's a good reason for that.

Did you notice the page was posted by hackmate?

Apr-07-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <Jim: Did you notice the page was posted by hackmate?>

Yeah, that's pretty weird considering that <hack and Trice> are probably one and the same.

Apr-07-09  Jim Bartle: p. 735: “...each player has roughly the same level of Kingside resources distributed relatively suitably for the position, and the Queenside has the appearance of defensibility, though in state of pending liquidation. Such a static summary is shattered by the strategic maneuver I was about to undertake with the Knight.”

Quick, an emergency copy of "The Elements of Style" for "Bobby"!

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