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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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Jun-18-09  PinnedPiece: <ET> I'm sure <Lawrence> cares as much as I do.

You can "prove" 500 people are liars or con artists, but that doesn't improve your own veracity one whit. If anything, it comes off as a diversion cum vendetta tactic of a desperado, a "desperate one".

What is at issue in your vendetta isn't even clear. But for heaven's sakes, don't bother to explain. MEGO effect, big time.

.

Jun-18-09  MageOfMaple: Seriously. What next? Ranting and raving about how his neighbor doesn't cut the grass often enough? Followed by pictures to back it up?
Jun-18-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: <PinnedPiece> You make sense that the Trice-Mitchell dispute is not very interesting or relevent to third parties. Besides, there is an agreed upon place to discuss it which isn't here. <Ed Trice> I didn't take Latin but "That which we all must serve" reminds me of the ambiguity often present in old grail mythology. The querant presented the grail in the fisher king's castle is supposed to ask "Who(m) does the grail serve?" or "Who serves the grail?" which have different nuances. I prefer the former as the grail will cure the wasteland so (clean) water makes sense, e.g. in Kill Bill Vol. 2 Uma Thurman claws her way out of the grave, crosses the desert and orders a glass of water in a restaurant. The waitress serves. But it is the water which serves to refresh the (anti)heroine. This is the root sense of "serve" evident in "conserve" or "preserve", closer to environmentalism than service in the feudal sense. For example if one takes the St. Lawrence watershed as the grail then the ongoing clean-up project "serves the grail" and the grail again serves clean water. Bobby Fischer enters grail metaphor as in "Searching for Bobby Fischer", obviously a quest of some sort, and echoing the "fisher king" who's wound is central to the mythopoetic plot. Of course nowadays Monty Python, Indiana Jones and Dan Brown have spun new associations onto the older myths. I devoured "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" when it came out, perhaps because Mallory and "Gawain and the Green Knight" were on my U edu literature course. In the HBHG sense the "knights" who serve the grail serve the deposed bloodline's descendants in a feudal sense. Note: that earmarks Miyoko and Jinky as who deserves the chivalric service, in the M61MG case royalties, since if Fischer is fit in as "fisher king" they become the surviving "grail family" (mythopoetically). There is really a lot more to it than Indiana Jones-style "treasure hunting" imo.
Jun-18-09  MageOfMaple: ... Wow.
Jun-18-09  square dance: <ed trice> i dont speak latin, so i have no idea how to respond to what you said. the online translators dont make any sense out of it either.

<The answer to the question is "Ille qui nos omnes servabit", which is Latin for "He who will save [or "protect"] us all".>

Jun-18-09  PinnedPiece: <Ed Trice> <IMlday> is positing a mythic role for you and asking if you are truly an honorable man.

How signify ye?

.

Jun-19-09  Ed Trice: <square dance> That was a quote from one of the orations of Cicero against Cataline, but I deliberately changed "abutere" to "abuteris" so you could not google the result.

Abuteris is future tense, second person, singular, of the verb "abuse." So Cicero was saying "will you abuse" there. But, he used "flowery speach" and said abutere there instead of abuteris, something which made the crowd's ears perk up.

The phrase translates as "How long will you continue to abuse our patience, Cataline?" in the original.

Jun-19-09  Ed Trice: <IMDay> Rob Mitchell is using the other internet noise as a lever to try and insert his own character assassination of me in a lame attempt to absolve himself of previous misdeeds. His position is that a programmer I hired to do Java work paid for my trip to Iceland, and not the match financiers who put $15,000,000 into an account in Geneva.

This has been well documented, for example, here

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

Susan Polgar herself confirmed the Fischer vs. Kaprov match I was arranging was legitimate, and the money was in place.

Rob just can't admit he was asking me for $35,000 here

http://www.gothicchess.com/images/b...

to pay down a $57,000 debt he owed the video producer I hired to film the Fischer-Karpov match.

So, I allowed Rob Mitchell to pile on the lies. Now he has nothing to say.

I apologize for borrowing heavily from the style of Viktor Korchnoi.

Jun-19-09  robmtchl: Fiat Justidia Caelum Ruat
Jun-19-09  PinnedPiece: Ecce nidor amplus muris
Jun-19-09  Jim Bartle: "well-documented"

In a newspaper article where the person making the claim is the source of the documentation.

Jun-19-09  Shams: <Ed Trice> How is it that trouble and maleficence so often find their way to your door? Don't you find it strange?
Jun-19-09  Tomlinsky: <Ed Trice> I suspect that the old(ish) English phrase 'Nobody really gives a toss any more' would be far more appropriate.
Jun-19-09  Ed Trice: I'm not the one who sold everything I own for pennies on the dollar, then moved to Ohio, that was Ed Labate. I guess if somebody has a forgery felony chasing them around, that's the thing to do.

And Dr. Frank Brady confirmed that Riverbeast was the one who spoofed my email address to Labate all those times. Recall Riverbeast said to Brady the exact same words in an email I never sent to Labate that was sent from GothicChess L nfo@aol.com where he used a lower-case "L" to look like the upper case "i" in my email address. Nice try. Maybe you and Eddie Labate can be cell buddies.

So, "Robby" Mitchell is back, and this time he has nothing to say about the Trump meeting, about his claim to have contacted Karpov, and so on, and so on.

Why is that I wonder?

Oh, that's right, because you were lying Rob!

Jun-19-09  Ed Trice: And it's "justitia" not "Justidia" Robby.
Jun-19-09  Ed Trice: Orbe locus medio est inter terrasque fretumque
caelestesque plagas, triplicis confinia mundi -
unde quod est usquam, quamvis regionibus absit,
inspicitur, penetratque cavas vox omnis ad aures.

Fama tenet summaque domum sibi legit in arce,
innumerosque aditus ac mille foramina tectis
addidit et nullis inclusit limina portis. Nocte dieque patet - tota est ex aere sonanti, tota fremit vocesque refert iteratque quod audit.

Jun-19-09  PinnedPiece: <IMlday> I am resigned to having all my clever rejoinders (its the era of self-promotion) join the ghostly plasmic porridge of spinning electrons in that great bitbucket in the sky as you clean house here (eventually).

Latin translation, please, Ed?

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Jun-19-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: <PP> Yeah eventually I'll clear out all the Trice-Mitchell off-topic stuff except the Latin and of course this eloquent metaphor: "the ghostly plasmic porridge of spinning electrons in that great bitbucket in the sky"

Guys please, Mrs. A's forum is for this stuff. I don't even know these guys. Of course I'd already read the Philly Inquirer story. That's also the paper that FOIAed the FBI's Fischer file.

Jun-19-09  MageOfMaple: Please give it a day or two before deleting Trice's comments. His most recent post is not only a libel against Ed Labate (since it's factually incorrect), but it's also in violation of an injunction against him specifically prohibiting any _additional_ slander or libel against Ed Labate. Time should be given for attorneys and law enforcement to document/verify the post.
Jun-19-09  parisattack: IM Day - GM Keene's Learn from the Grandmasters is one of my favorite books. I especially enjoyed your section - The annotations to Benko-Suttles and to your game Prins-Day.

In regard to the latter - 1) What do you suggest for White instead of 11.P-KR3 (?)? and 2) Perhaps a better move for White than 10. B-K3, also? 3) You mentioned you had hoped to play the 'fast' Kan with 5. ...P-QN4 - do you think that variation is still valid?

I have always liked the Kan - it fits in with my idea of playing defences where Black potentially has options on both sides of the board...

Thank You!

Jun-19-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: <parisattack> Re: Prins vs L Day, 1968 Robert Hubner watched this game and in the post mortem recommended 11.g3!? instead of 11.h3?! but Black is OK either way because Prins' system was too passive. But in the Kan 5.Nc3 is almost a clear error since it blocks the c-pawn thereby limiting options unnecessarily. Also the ♘ becomes a target. Fortunately in the 1960s White's best anti-Sicilian strategies weren't well understood. In Fischer-Petrosian 1971 5.Bd3! showed the correct flexible move order (with c2-c4 available to blow open the centre quickly). This very quickly became normal. I checked CG's Explorer and believe it or not the self-block 5.Nc3 still has a negative score after over 800 games!
Jun-20-09  Riverbeast: <And Dr. Frank Brady confirmed that Riverbeast was the one who spoofed my email address to Labate all those times.>

Stop it, Trice. I'm tired of talking about this farce and I would think you would tire of all these lies.

I'll tell you one thing, though...You better hope these false charges and frauds don't catch up to you...Speaking of cellmates, I'm sure there are plenty of guys in prison that would love that mushy fat a*se of yours

Jun-20-09  Ed Trice: Riverbeast, you will get caught one day. And I'll be there when it happens.
Jun-20-09  Jim Bartle: Don't worry, RB, I'll visit and bring you a nice cake in jail. With something useful inside.
Jun-20-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <Jim> <RB> in jail? Never gonna happen. :-)
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