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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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Apr-30-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: i am trying to compile an archive of my games on www.chessgames.com-which will be exclusive to www.chessgames.com and i am searching for a few game scores i do not have -if anyone can help i wd be grateful at the moment i am looking for these games:

gheorghiu v keene montilla 1974 draw
keene v rahman hong kong 1984 win
kuzmin v keene rovinj/zagreb 1975 draw
friedman v keene chicago 1985 win
keene v lein gausdal 1983 draw
keene v schussler gausdal 1983 draw
keene v kraidman gausdal 1983 ( i am not too sure this game exists but if it can be found that wd be ontological proof) draw? keene v ivanov hong kong 1984 draw

thanks if anyone can locate these-i will also post this request on the kibitzers cafe , eric schillers page and my own page

May-01-09  parisattack: There is a Keene-Schussler 1983, 1/2-1/2 Czech Benoni in Players Chess News #4, annotated by Tisdall...
May-01-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: SOUNDS LIKE IT!
May-01-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: From The Times THIS OUGHT TO WORK AS A LINK FOR MY REVIEW OF THE SUTTLES TRILOGY IN TODAYS TIMES

May 2, 2009

Chess: May 2
Raymond Keene

http://entertainment.timesonline.co...

May-01-09  parisattack: <ray keene: SOUNDS LIKE IT!>

I would be happy to scan/email if you want it. Interesting game and annotations. I loved the Czech Benoni but found myself needing a 9th rank for my pieces. My favorite C-B is Polugaevsky-Stein 1965.

Thanks also for the link to the Suttles piece!

May-01-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: Somehow the layout department got the three columns jumbled, but chess readers will figure that out much more easily than the mysterious game itself. Watching it live I was pessimistic but hadn't realized the long "best defence" with Q&B vs Q&2p was easily drawn. Robatsch was very annoyed in the postmortem having insisted it couldn't possibly be sound. Strange game. Looking forward to this Czech Benoni too!
May-02-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: <paris attack> yes please!
May-02-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: on line the suttles win v robatsch does indeed have columns 2 and 3 reversed-however its easy enough to follow-in the paper itself its a different format and seemed to be all in the right sequence
May-03-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen: <IM Day>

I thank you for your recent post in <Mrs. Alekhine> forum.

I think a post by you on the <Fischer thread> may go a long ways to helping others understand the wisdom of having a separate forum for this discussion-

So that the <Fischer page>, not to mention the <IM Lawrence Day> page, might remain free of this one topic issue.

<hackmate> is posting at the <Fischer page> and a few others-

We've had three weeks of great discussion of Bobby's life and chess on his player page- and also great spirited discussion of <My 61 games> in the <Mrs. Alekhine> forum.

Please sir- a public post from you on the <Fischer player page> endorsing this "split forum system" would earn you the lifelong gratitude of a host of people who wish to discuss <other things> about Bobby Fischer.

Yours,
jessicafischerqueen/Mrs. Aleknine

May-03-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen: <Mr. Day>

I really can't thank you enough for your succinct, reasonable, persuasive, and timely post on the <Fischer player page>.

May-18-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: congratulations to the player of the day! one might say a Day whose day has come!!
May-18-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chessgames.com: We were informed that today is "Victoria Day" in the Commonwealth nations, so we thought it was a good time to give today's honors to the most outstanding Canadian on our site.

Happy Victoria Day!

May-18-09  timhortons: Happy Victoria day IM dAY!
May-18-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: Victoria Day has plenty of fun memories for me. I played the Ontario Open from 1963-83. The first time I won was 1971 in Brockville upsetting George Kuprejanov in the last round. I put some comments on the game: Kuprejanov vs L Day, 1971
May-18-09  DiscoJew: Have you heard that FM Kevin Gentes is moving out to Toronto Lawrence?
May-29-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: <DJ> No, I hadn't heard Kevin was relocating. Thanks. <EdL> As your post was the same as you posted in the Mrs Alekhine's M61MG discussion forum I figured I'd delete it here to avoid duplication, etc.
Jun-07-09  Ed Trice: I must say, Ray, "A Day whose day has come" was very punny.
Jun-07-09  GeauxCool: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me trice, shame on me," is also very punny.
Jun-07-09  GeauxCool: <IMlday> We're waiting for your reply at Mrs. Alekhine chessforum
Jun-07-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: puns seem to be the order of the day here-i dont know if this also counts as a pun but i am writing a forthcoming article in the spectator about my favourite chess books which i have entitled:

"hoc opus hic liber est"

referring to virgils aeneid , book 6, line 129 i think. greetings to everyone who enjoyed my previous diurnal pun!

Jun-09-09  Ed Trice: I used to hate declining hic and ille in Latin class. Then I heard on a recent episode of the TV show "Lost"

The answer to the riddle

What lies in the shadow of the statue?

And "Ille qui nos omnes servabit" was the response. Somehow I said "That which we all must serve" without blinking an eye. I think that means "death", for the "real answer", but it's strange how you can sometimes remember things from years ago.

Jun-09-09  square dance: you should have blinked. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Wha...
Jun-09-09  Ed Trice: Quo usque tandem abuteris patiencia nostra, square dance?
Jun-18-09  PinnedPiece: <Ed Trice> Ed! Ed! Shake off the Rob Mitchell episode, baby! There's lots to be done. There's the medical database prototype. Is that finalized and submitted?

There's your Fischer memoirs, 250 pp at least, detailing the near miss on the bout of the decade. and Including the chapters on your crucifixion on internet sites, with special treatment of the Labate emails, and how they were manufactured.

C'mon, there must be a publisher out there willing to advance on such a story.

You're off on a useless tangent with Mitchell...spending way too much emotional and physical energy without one prospect of tangible payback.

So what if he is a useless liar, no one who plans to do business with him in the future is paying any attention to the CG.com page anyway. None of us are ever going to do business with him, but if we were to, the facts of your episode with him are so murky that they would have no influence anyway.

What a waste of a talent, going on here.

.

Jun-18-09  Ed Trice: Lawrence, in case you want to hear the lies of Rob Mitchell, in the words of the video producer that we brought to Iceland to meet Fischer, listen to this

http://www.gothicchess.com/lies.mov

Just so you know, everything he is saying on the Mrs. Alekhine forum is bull.

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