Nicholas MacLeod
Nicholas Menalaus MacLeod (8 February 1870, Quebec – 27 September 1965, Spokane, Washington) was a Scottish–Canadian chess master.
He took 6th at Ottawa 1881, tied for 3rd-9th at Quebec 1881/82, took 8th at Glasgow 1884, and finished 5th at Glasgow 1886 (the 3rd Scottish Chess Championship).[1]
MacLeod won the Canadian Chess Championship in 1886 and 1888, and shared 1st but lost a play-off match for the title in 1887.[2] He finished last out of 20 players at New York 1889 (the 6th American Chess Congress, won by Max Weiss and Mikhail Chigorin, losing a world-record 31 games while winning 6 and drawing 1.[3] He finished 2nd at Quebec 1890.[4] He was only player to beat Emanuel Lasker in a simultaneous exhibition at Quebec 1892.
He was Minnesota Champion in 1899, and won the second Western Chess Association Tournament (later called the U.S. Open Chess Championship) at Excelsior 1901.[5]
References
- ^ http://www.chessmetrics.com
- ^ http://web.ncf.ca/bw998/Champions.html
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
- ^ http://web.ncf.ca/bw998/canchess.html#MACLEODN
External links
- Nicholas MacLeod player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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