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In the 4 million+ game database recently released by Chessbase, I noticed that only 9 Canadian players (Charbonneau, Day, Hebert, Hergott, Lesiege, Roussel-Roozmon, Spraggett, Zalys, and Yanofsky) have more games in the database than my 489 games.
I suspect that Chessbase had different editors going through different years - and some had stricter criteria than others.
My games include:
1) 22 of the 24 games played in a 1967 match against Chesstalk poster Howard Streit.
2) all 4 games in an aborted match played in 1968.
3) games from several other matches aginst others played in 1969-71. We were all 1800 rated - at the most.
4) A 6-move loss against George Kuprejanov in 1971. The only reason it's 6 moves is that I lost the scoresheet and could only recall the first 6 moves some time later. The actual game was over 40 moves.
5) This 9-move win:
[Event "Montreal tt"]
[Site "Montreal"]
[Date "1980.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Brodie, Hugh"]
[Black "Leimanis, Andris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A04"]
[PlyCount "17"]
[EventDate "1980.??.??"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "CAN"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.11.25"]
1. Nf3 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6 4. d3 e3 5. Bxe3 Nc6 6. d4 h6 7. Bd3 Ne5 8.
dxe5 hxg5 9. Bg6# 1-0
6) No games of mine are included between 1987 and 1990 - and only a couple from 1991 and 1992. I played about 135 games in this 1987-90 time period. No games from Saint John 1988 - nor my undefeated Canadian Open of 1988. I played quite a few titled players - which I thought was one of the criteria to be included in Megabase. So this Q-sac game is missing:
[Event "CAN-op"]
[Site "Windsor CAN"]
[Date "1991.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Robes, Sylvester"]
[Black "Brodie, Hugh"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "1770"]
[BlackElo "2030"]
[PlyCount "26"]
[EventDate "1991.??.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[EventCountry "CAN"]
1. Nf3 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. d3 d5 5. b3 Bd6 6. Bb2 O-O 7. O-O Qe8 8. Re1
e5 9. Nbd2 e4 10. Ng5 e3 11. Nf1 exf2+ 12. Kxf2 Ng4+ 13. Kf3 Qe4+ 0-1
7) I am listed as an American player.
I suspect that Chessbase had different editors going through different years - and some had stricter criteria than others.
My games include:
1) 22 of the 24 games played in a 1967 match against Chesstalk poster Howard Streit.
2) all 4 games in an aborted match played in 1968.
3) games from several other matches aginst others played in 1969-71. We were all 1800 rated - at the most.
4) A 6-move loss against George Kuprejanov in 1971. The only reason it's 6 moves is that I lost the scoresheet and could only recall the first 6 moves some time later. The actual game was over 40 moves.
5) This 9-move win:
[Event "Montreal tt"]
[Site "Montreal"]
[Date "1980.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Brodie, Hugh"]
[Black "Leimanis, Andris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A04"]
[PlyCount "17"]
[EventDate "1980.??.??"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "7"]
[EventCountry "CAN"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2001.11.25"]
1. Nf3 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6 4. d3 e3 5. Bxe3 Nc6 6. d4 h6 7. Bd3 Ne5 8.
dxe5 hxg5 9. Bg6# 1-0
6) No games of mine are included between 1987 and 1990 - and only a couple from 1991 and 1992. I played about 135 games in this 1987-90 time period. No games from Saint John 1988 - nor my undefeated Canadian Open of 1988. I played quite a few titled players - which I thought was one of the criteria to be included in Megabase. So this Q-sac game is missing:
[Event "CAN-op"]
[Site "Windsor CAN"]
[Date "1991.??.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Robes, Sylvester"]
[Black "Brodie, Hugh"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "1770"]
[BlackElo "2030"]
[PlyCount "26"]
[EventDate "1991.??.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "10"]
[EventCountry "CAN"]
1. Nf3 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. d3 d5 5. b3 Bd6 6. Bb2 O-O 7. O-O Qe8 8. Re1
e5 9. Nbd2 e4 10. Ng5 e3 11. Nf1 exf2+ 12. Kxf2 Ng4+ 13. Kf3 Qe4+ 0-1
7) I am listed as an American player.
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