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Daniel Yanofsky
Canadian chess player
Daniel Abraham (Abe) Yanofsky (March 25, – March 5, ) was a Canadian chess player, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, and politician. An eight-time Canadian chess champion, Yanofsky was Canada's first grandmaster and the first grandmaster of the British Commonwealth.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Early life
[edit]Yanofsky was born to a Jewish family in Brody, Poland (now western Ukraine), and moved to Canada when he was eight months old, settling with his family in Winnipeg.
Life in chess
[edit]Early successes
[edit]He learned to play chess at the age of eight. Yanofsky won his first Manitoba provincial championship at age 12 in , also making his debut in the Closed Canadian Chess Championship that same year in Toronto. In , just 14 years old, he played for Canada at the Buenos AiresOlympiad. Yanofsky was the sensation of the tournament, making the highest score on second board.[7] He won his first Canadian Chess Championship in at age 16, at home in Winnipeg. He won at Ventnor City with /9, and tied 1st-2nd with Herman Steiner on 16/17 in the U.S. Open at Dallas.[8]
First Commonwealth GM
[edit]In , at age 21, Yanofsky entered the first major post-World W
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List of chess players
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This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.
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[edit]- Jacob Aagaard (Denmark, Scotland, born )
- Manuel Aaron (India, born )
- Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan, born )
- István Abonyi (Hungary, –)
- Gerald Abrahams (England, –)
- Tatev Abrahamyan (Armenia, US, born )
- Hasan Abbasifar (Iran, born )
- Farid Abbasov (Azerbaijan, born )
- Jude Acers (US, born )
- Péter Ács (Hungary, born )
- Weaver Adams (US, –)
- Tanitoluwa Adewumi (Nigeria, US, born )
- Utut Adianto (Indonesia, born )
- András Adorján (Hungary, born )
- Vladimir Afromeev (Russia, born )
- Simen Agdestein (Norway, born )
- Evgeny Agrest (Belarus, Sweden, born )
- Georgy Agzamov (Uzbekistan, –)
- Carl Ahues (Germany, –)
- James Macrae Aitken (Scotland, –)
- Ralf Åkesson (Sweden, born )
- Anna Akhsharumova (Russia, US, born )
- Varuzhan Akobian (Armenia, US, born )
- Vladimir Akopian (Armenia, born )
- Mohammed Al-Modiahki (Qatar, born )
- Semyon Alapin (Lithuania, –)
- Vladimir Alatortsev (Russia, –)
- Adolf Albin (Romania, –)
- Lev Alburt (Russia, US, born )
- Alexander Alekhine (Russia, France –)
- Alexei Alekhine (Russia, –)
- Grace Alekhine (US, England, France –)
- Aleksej Aleksandrov (Belar