List of Canadian chess players

Yevgeny Bareev was the only Canadian player to achieve an Elo rating of over 2700 .

The list of Canadian chess players contains chess players who are or were eligible to play for the Canadian Chess Federation and who meet at least one of the following conditions:

• Winner of one of the following FIDE titles: Grand Master , Honorary Grand Master , International Master , Grand Master of Women , Honorary Grand Master of Women, International Master of Women;
• Holder of one of the following ICCF titles: Grand Master, Honored International Master, International Master, Grand Master of Women, International Master of Women;
• Winning a national individual championship.

General

In local chess, 13 grandmasters, 38 international masters, three women's grandmasters and 13 international women's champions are eligible to play for the Canadian Chess Federation. One grandmaster and one international women's champion are no longer eligible to play for the Canadian Chess Federation, two grandmasters and one international women's champion have already passed away. An International Master is only eligible to play for the Canadian Federation in correspondence chess.

In correspondence chess, 6 Canadian players have earned the title of Grand Master, 13 that of an Honored International Master and 15 that of an International Master. Of these, three Merited International Masters and five International Masters have already passed away. The Canadian Individual Championships were played 83 times, the Canadian Women's Championship 16 times. Record champions are Maurice Fox and Daniel Abraham Yanofsky with eight titles each, while Nava Starr won the women's competition with eight titles the most.

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The following table contains this information:

• Name : gives the name of the player.
• Life data : states the year of birth and, if applicable, the year of death of the player.
• FIDE : Name the player's highest FIDE title (GM = Grand Master, IM = International Master, FM = FIDE Master , WIM = International Women's Master , CM = Candidate Master )
• Year : Name the year the title was awarded
• ICCF : Calls the player's highest ICCF title (GM = Grand Master, SIM = Honored International Master, IM = International Master).
• Year : Name the year the title was awarded.
• Title : Indicates the number of Canadian individual championships won.
• Title (Women) : The number of Canadian women's individual championships won.
• Other associations : For players who were sooner or later eligible to play for at least one other association, this indicates these associations with the periods of eligibility to play (if known).

The list is current as of May 24, 2020.

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Surname	Life dates	FIDE	year	ICCF	year	title	Title (women)	other associations
Valerian Adam	1937	IN THE	2009			0	0
Mario Adriano				IN THE	2001	0	0
Bruce Amos	1946	IN THE	1969			0	0
Frank Ross Anderson	1928-1980	IN THE	1955			2	0
Jacob Ascher	1841-1912					1	0
Vesma Baltgailis	1950	WIM	1985			0	0
Yevgeny Bareev	1966	GM	1989			0	0	Soviet Union (until 1991), Russia (1992-2015)
Michael Barron	1962	IN THE	2015			0	0
George Barry						1	0
Harry Belson	1906-1947					2	0
Jonathan Berry	1953	FM	1984	GM	1985	0	0
Peter Biyiasas	1950	GM	1978			2	0	United States (since 1980)
Boris Blumin	1908-1998					2	0
Mark Bluvshtein	1988	GM	2004			0	0
Fedir Bohatyrchuk	1892-1984	IN THE	1954	IN THE	1967	0	0	Russian Empire (until 1917), Soviet Union (1922–1944)
William Boultbee	1832-1902					1	0
Stephen Boyd	1955	FM	1997	IN THE	2008	0	0	France (since 1998)
Anna Burtasova	1987	WGM	2009			0	0	Russia (until 2019)
Arthur Calugar	1994	IN THE	2011			0	0
Pascal Charbonneau	1983	GM	2006			2	0
Johanne Charest	1975	WIM	1996			0	1
Bindi Cheng	1990	IN THE	2011			0	0
Olivier Kenta Chiku Rat	1999	IN THE	2020			0	0
Jocelyn Coté				SIM	2007	0	0
Camille Coudari	1951	IN THE	1979			0	0
David Cummings	1961	IN THE	1984			0	0	England (until 1996), Wales (1996-2000)
Thomas Davison						2	0
Urmila Das		WIM	1985			0	0
Angela Day	1952	WIM	1982			0	0
Lawrence Day	1949	IN THE	1972			1	0
Svitlana Demchenko	2003	WIM	2019			0	0	Ukraine (until 2015)
Valer Demian	1963	CM	2012	IN THE	2001	0	0
André DeVriendt	1926-2006			SIM	2002	0	0
Brian Douthwaite	1931-2006					0	0	Wales
Serge Dubuc				IN THE	2003	0	0
Thanh Nha Duong	1970	IN THE	2001			0	0
Michael Edelstein	1918-2003			SIM	1999	0	0
Albert Ensor	1843-1883					1	0
Alan Fichaud				IN THE	2013	0	0
Maurice Fox	1898-1988					8th	0
Géza Füster	1910-1990	IN THE	1969			0	0	Hungary (until 1953)
Sydney Gale	approx. 1893-1950					1	0
Leonid Gerzhoy	1987	IN THE	2003			0	0	Israel (until 2007)
Eugene Gibney	1955 or 1956			SIM	2004	0	0	Ireland (correspondence chess)
Stephen Glinert	1984	IN THE	2003			0	0
Aman Hambleton	1992	IN THE	2013			0	0
Eric Hansen	1992	GM	2013			0	0
Brian Hartman	1957	IN THE	1992			0	0
Jean Hébert	1957	IN THE	1978	GM	1984	2	0
Deen Hergott	1962	IN THE	1990			0	0
William Henry Hicks	1817-1899					1	0
Henry Howe	1815-1900					2	0
Wayne Hynes				SIM	2009	0	0
Igor Ivanov	1947-2005	GM	2005			3	0	Soviet Union (until 1979), United States (1990 – June 2005)
George Jackson	1834-1919					1	0
Lionel Joyner	1932-2001					1	0
Dina Kagramanov	1986	WIM	2009			0	1
Raymond Kaufman	1982	IN THE	2008			0	0	United States (until 2019)
Dinara Khaziyeva	1986	WIM	2004			0	1
Natalia Khoudgarian	1973	WIM	1996			0	4th	Soviet Union (until 1991), Russia (1992–1996)
Robert Joel Kiviaho	1950			GM	1991	0	0
Anton Kovalyov	1992	GM	2008			0	0	Argentina (until 2013)
Stanislav Kriventsov	1973	IN THE	2002			0	0	Russia (until 1998), United States (1998–2008)
Tomas Krnan	1988	IN THE	2006			1	0	Slovakia (until 2002)
George Kuprejanov	1938-1991	IN THE	1972			0	0	Yugoslavia (until the mid-1960s)
Murray Kurtz				IN THE	1998	0	0
Richard Labonté				IN THE	2010	0	0
François-Xavier Lambert	1833-1920					1	0
Eric Lawson	1984	IN THE	2004			0	0
Vicente Lee		IN THE	2006			0	0
Alexandre Lesiège	1975	GM	2007			3	0
Zoltan Emerk Leskowsky	1921			IN THE	1985	0	0
François Léveillé	1961	FM	1990			1	0
Ron Livshits	1973	IN THE	1996			1	0
David MacLeod	1952			SIM	1999	0	0
Nicholas MacLeod	1870-1965					2	0
Robert Martin	1910-1978					1	0
Agnieszka Matras-Clement	1982	WIM	2000			0	0	Poland (until 2016)
Serge Maurer				IN THE	2007	0	0
Diane Mongeau		WIM	1981			0	0
John Stuart Morrison	1889-1975					5	0
Arthur Mrugala				SIM	2000	0	0
James Narraway	1857-1947					4th	0
Bryon Nickoloff	1956-2004	IN THE	1981			1	0
Nikolay Noritsyn	1991	IN THE	2007			0	0
Tom O'Donnell	1965	IN THE	1993			0	0
Maili-Jade Ouellet	2002	WGM	2020			0	0
Raja Panjwani	1990	IN THE	2009			0	0
Claude Paré				SIM	1999	0	0
Jackie Peng	1998	WIM	2014			0	0
Leon Piasetski	1951	IN THE	2015			0	0
Denis Pineault	1959			SIM	1999	0	0
Edwin Pope	1843-1936					1	0
Edward Porper	1963	IN THE	1991			0	0	Soviet Union (until 1990), Israel (1991–2008)
Razvan Preotu	1999	GM	2016			0	0
Quan Zhe	1990	IN THE	2008			0	0	China (until 2001), United States (2001–2002)
Alexander Rabinovich	1978	IN THE	1998			0	0	Israel (until 2012)
Celine Roos	1953	WIM	1985			0	0	France (after 1988)
David Ross	1961	IN THE	2001			0	0
Dan Rotaru				SIM	2012	0	0
Thomas Roussel-Roozmon	1988	GM	2010			0	0
Gary Ruben	1942-2015			SIM	2005	0	0
Bator Sambuev	1980	GM	2006			2	0	Russia (until 2010)
Artiom Samsonkin	1989	IN THE	2007			0	0	Belarus (until 2008)
Edward Sanderson						2	0
Zoltán Sárosy	1906-2017			IN THE	1988	0	0	Hungary (before 1950)
Joseph Sawyer	1874-1965					1	0
Michael Schleifer	1967-2009	IN THE	2001			0	0
Wolfram Schön	1967	IN THE	1987	GM	2006	0	0	Norway (Nahschach until 1985), Germany (Nahschach since 1986)
Joseph Shaw	1834-1897					1	0
Robert Short	1844-1927					1	0
Alex Sandor Siklos	1935-2000			IN THE	1968	0	0
Magnus Smith	1869-1934					3	0
Michael Song	1999	IN THE	2016			0	0
Paul Dieter Spinath	1946			IN THE	1991	0	0
Kevin Spraggett	1954	GM	1985			5	0
Nava Starr	1949	WIM	1978			0	8th
Drew Lamb Stoll	1950-1995			IN THE	1987	0	0
Raymond Stone	1953	FM	1986			1	0
Duncan Suttles	1945	GM	1973	GM	1982	1	0
Jonathan Tayar	1988	IN THE	2009			0	0
Shiyam Thavandiran	1992	IN THE	2017			0	0
Yan Teplitsky	1975	IN THE	1996			0	0	Russia (until 1994), Israel (1995)
Dimitri Tyomkin	1977	GM	2001			0	0	Israel (until 2002)
Alexander Ugge	1937			GM	2005	0	0
Paul Vaitonis	1911-1983	IN THE	1952			2	0	Lithuania (until 1940), Soviet Union (1940–1944)
Zvonko Vranesic	1938	IN THE	1969	IN THE	1973	0	0	Yugoslavia (until 1958)
Smilja Vujosevic	1935-2016	WIM	1978			0	1
Richard Wang	1998	IN THE	2012			0	0
Kurt Widmann				SIM	1999	0	0
Laszlo Witt	1933-2005	IN THE	1969			0	0	Hungary (until 1956)
John Wright	1940			SIM	1999	0	0
Yang Kaiqi	1988	GM	2019			0	0	China (until 2017)
Daniel Abraham Yanofsky	1925-2000	GM	1964			8th	0
Frank Yerhoff	1918-1999					1	0
Yuanling yuan	1994	WIM	2009			0	0
Qiyu Zhou	2000	WGM	2017			0	1	Finland (until 2011)
Igor Zugic	1981	IN THE	1999			1	0

See also

• List of Canadian champions in chess

Web links

Commons : Canadian Chess Players  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Canadian Top 100 Men and Women (Elo List, Active and Inactive)
• Canadian Top 100 Women (Elo List, Active and Inactive)
• Overview of the Canadian Masters at the Canadian Chess Federation
• Correspondence chess title holder at the International Correspondence Chess Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boris Blumin was born in the Russian Empire. According to the Julian calendar valid there at that time, his birthday was in 1907.
2. ↑ Fedir Bohatyrtschuk once won the Soviet individual championship.
3. ↑ In correspondence chess Stephen Boyd continues to play for the Canadian Federation.
4. ↑ Brian Douthwaite won the Welsh Individual Championship once.
5. ↑ Géza Füster won the Hungarian individual championship once.
6. ↑ Qiyu Zhou has also had the FM title since 2016.
7. ↑ Qiyu Zhou also won the Finnish women's championship once.