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'''John Stuart Morrison''' (7 December 1889 – 1 March 1975) was a [[Canadian]] [[chess]] [[Master]], who was born and died in [[Toronto]].<ref name=Gaige>{{citation |
'''John Stuart Morrison''' ([[7 December]] [[1889]] – [[1 March]] [[1975]]) was a [[Canadian]] [[chess]] [[Master]], who was born and died in [[Toronto]].<ref name=Gaige>{{citation |
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Revision as of 11:13, 15 September 2008
John Stuart Morrison (7 December 1889 – 1 March 1975) was a Canadian chess Master, who was born and died in Toronto.[1]
He won the Canadian Chess Championship five times (1910, 1913, 1922, 1924, and 1926) and shared first place in 1931 (Maurice Fox won play-off).[2] He took twelfth place at New York 1913 (José Raúl Capablanca won), took seventh place at New York 1918 (Capablanca won), and tied for 14-15th place at London 1922 (Capablanca won).[3]
Morrison played at first board (+5 –6 =4) for Canada in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939.[4]
References
- ^ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 291, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- ^ Canadian Chess
- ^ Welcome to the Chessmetrics site
- ^ Morrison, John Stewart team chess record at olimpbase.org
Further reading
- American Chess Bulletin, 1914, p. 33
- Toronto Globe and Mail, March 3, 1975, p. 33
- Yanofsky, D. A. (1967), 100 Years of Chess in Canada, p. 20
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