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There's a lot of names missing. Two that come to mind are Peter Murray (one of the lowest numbers) who is still rated master (played two years ago) and originally advised me to become a life member, and Dave Jackson who was once 2300 and is now about 1700 but still very active.
Yes, Murray and Jackson are just below Armstrong, and are Ontario's longest lasting Life Members..
To go back to last slow tournament in 2017
100182 Jung, Hans - London - 2227
To 2016
100030 Jackson, David - London 1729
100298 McClellan, Tom - Kitchener 1732
To 2015
100032 Murray, Peter - Markham 2289
100126 Rohanchuk, Ed - Thunder Bay 1909
100237 Maley, Desmond - Sudbury 1772
There's a lot of names missing. Two that come to mind are Peter Murray (one of the lowest numbers) who is still rated master (played two years ago) and originally advised me to become a life member, and Dave Jackson who was once 2300 and is now about 1700 but still very active.
In 1965, Phil Haley, my good friend from my hometown, now deceased, advised me to get a CFC Life Membership when I was a pauper......he said I had to scrape together $ 50!!! That was no easy task for me then.........but I followed his advice......# 100034! And what he told me is definitely true:
Lowest numbers across Canada are: 100005 Charles Birch, Victoria BC. 100007 Keith Kerns, Toronto. 100020 I.J.Dremen, Winnipeg. 100027 Phil Haley (deceased). 100030 David Jackson, London ON.
Phil Haley has an expiry date of 01/12/2099 - the same as many living Life members. Is he included in the Ontario totals?
Some of the "100's" have "normal" expiry dates in the 1990's or 2000's. Some numbers are skipped - e.g. 100100, 100102, and 100103. Do we assume that they are deceased and were inactive before online crosstables were available? Or were these numbers accidentally skipped? (I am 100101 - bought mine in the mid 70's).
CFC #
100034 Armstrong, Robert J.- Toronto 1569
100046 Bunning, Les - Ottawa 1686
100049 Percival. Stan - Burlington 1490
100059 Dale, Steven - Nepean 1769
100167 Monaghan, Jim - Thunder Bay 2184
100196 Malmsten, Erik - Toronto 1959
100198 Runstedler, Albert - Drayton 1812
100230 Gonsalves, Richard - Whitby 1554
100234 Cohen, David - Toronto 1883
100275 Verkley, Fred - Brantfort 1588
100280 Sharpe, Michael D. - Toronto 1569
100294 Dougherty. Michael - Etobicoke 2217
100304 Warren, Robert - Brampton 1403
100319 Langer, Herb - Arnprior 1686
100349 Sharpe, Sam - Ajax 1940
100355 Litchfield, Gerry - St. Marys 1618
101207 Humphreys, Stephen - Kitchener 1770
101866 Finlay, Ian - Brampton 1920
101925 Upper, John - Ottawa 2174
102011 De Kerpel, Stijn - Nepean 2129
102232 Kiviaho, Robert - Sudbury 2180
102700 Hartman, Brian - Seguin 2369
102764 Morrison, Robert - Toronto 2276
102868 Drkulec, Vladimir - Tecumseh 2020
102882 Brown, John R. - Brampton 1493
103144 Ortiz, Hugo - London 1512
103276 Martin, Spencer - Carleton Place 1680
103754 Doubleday, William G. - Ottawa 2077
103877 Serdula, Jay - Kingston 1736
103959 Nadeau, Benoit - Foleyet 1636
I think this is great (for the CFC), but for the Life Memberships I do wonder...
a - How many of these are titled players (IMs, GMs, awarded life membership automatically).
b - How many total life members are active?
The vast majority of players I come across are not life members (easily 80%+ if not 90%+), and I have to worry about checking their memberships.
Alex F.
497 keen players became life members with an expiry of 1/12/2099 or 31/12/2099
255 of them are oldtimers, starting with membership number 100 (to 100357) Vranesic has 10100. I bought mine in 1978 (with my first paycheck), #100196.
Only 218 have a FIDE number, indicating that likely half haven't played in the past decade.
Ratings
>2500 20
2400 21 (52 have a high rating over 2400)
2300 21
2200 21 83 or 17% are masters (108 [22%] have had a high rating over 2200)
2100 24
2000 38
1900 39
1800 47
1700 71
1600 63
1500 55
1400 42
1300 12
<1300 23
Province
Ontario 258
52 Toronto (not incl NY, Scarb etc), 34 Ottawa, 10 London, 9 Thunder Bay,
8 Richmond Hill, 7 Kitchener, 7 Burlington, 6 Brampton
British Columbia 85 (17 Vancouver, 11 Victoria)
Quebec 40 (12 Montreal, 5 Quebec)
Alberta 37 (14 Edmonton, 9 Calgary)
USA 22
Nova Scotia 17
Sask 11
Manitoba 7
New Brunswick 7
Newfoundland 5
Foreign 5 (Canadians abroad)
PEI 2
Yukon 1
So I looked at the CFC rating page for the 258 Ontario lifers and their last tournament (not scrolling down for actives) was:
2019 59
2018 31 so I would say that 35% are active.
2017 6
2016 7
2015 8
2014 4
2013 7
2012 6
2011 6
2010 2
2009 8
2008 5
2007 2
2006 2
2005 5
2004 4
2003 5
2002 3
2001 7
2000 5
1999 5
1998 7
1997 2
1996 1
"Dead," or sitting in a senior's home waiting for a chess volunteer to come by:
61 24% , include up to 2009 122 48% clearly inactive.
59 of these 61 have membership numbers that start with 100. 50% of those 120 members starting with 100 are "dead," only 15 (13%) are active.
Last edited by Erik Malmsten; Saturday, 25th May, 2019, 01:06 PM.
I hope the CFC doesn't delete deceased and inactive players like the FQE did for a while...they also recycled membership numbers. Of course...this made a mess of cross tables...showing blank and incorrect player names.
Living Life or Honorary members have an expiry date that looks like 2099/XX/XX. I think any deceased Life members before we were computerized were not brought over, and any Life or Honorary members that pass away now, have their expiry date altered. Maybe some of you with time on your hands can prune the list of Life Members for us. It's probably easier to know about the Honorary members passing away. At one time life members could be identified by their CFC number, ie mine used to be 145 and then became 100145 when we computerized, but I'm not sure if we are still assigning numbers that way - I suspect that if you become a life member you now keep your existing cfc number.
Last edited by Fred McKim; Friday, 24th May, 2019, 04:10 PM.
I like the stories of Bernard Freedman, Daniel MacAdam, and Lynn Stringer. Some of the heroes of Canadian chess. Never met them (sadly) but was told about them. They are amongst the life members. Important history. I think Lynn Stringer is still alive and I wish her all the best.
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