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I am offering another game for users' interest! This time, some clues. The two players, both now deceased, were European immigrants to Canada. In their former countries, each played a significant role in chess activities, and continued, once arriving in Canada. The game was played in the eastern Ontario region in the 1960s, with some details about it which are mysteries even to me! Both players played in the Canadian Championship.
Dr. George Danilov vs. Dr. Fedor Bohatirchuk, Eastern Ontario Chess League, Cornwall 1972. I am indebted to my friend Dr. Alex Danilov, son of George, for this fascinating game; Alex provided precise date and location. Scoresheet simply says '1960s'. George was playing board one for Kingston, Fedor for Ottawa, in the days of team play in the region.
Fedor (1892-1984) had one of the more 'interesting' lives in chess history. He was co-Soviet champion in the 1920s, and a Master by his late teens in Kiev, Scored three wins over future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik. Then a pioneeering radiologist, and a Ukrainian nationalist, he was spoken of by some as the model for the fictional Dr. Zhivago, in Boris Pasternak's novel, made into an Oscar-award winning movie in 1965. Made his way westward, just ahead of the counterattacking Soviets, 1944-45, assisting the retreating Germans. Lived under an alias of 'Bogenko', while playing some European tournament chess in this era, with high finishes. Settling in Ottawa as a professor at the U. of Ottawa medical school, he played for Canada at Amsterdam 1954 Olympiad, where he got the IM title (Soviets blocked GM recognition for political reasons). Faced younger generation Canadian Masters such as Yanofsky, Anderson, Vaitonis, Fox in Canadian Championship play in late 1940s and 1950s. Coached the junior Lawrence Day, IM from 1972, in Ottawa. Then in his early 80s, Fedor analyzed with me, following my crushing last-round loss to future NM Kevin Pacey in a big scholastic tournament, Ottawa 1976; Kevin and I both had 5/5 going into that game. Also IM of Postal Chess,
George was of Yugoslav heritage, and settled in Kingston where he worked as a medical doctor. Played in the 1961 Canadian Championship at Brockville. Many time champion of Kingston. He wrote a chess column for the Kingston Whig-Standard newspaper, which I intend to research on the microfilmed archives stored at Kingston library. The Club Championship trophy at the Kingston Chess Club is named in his memory. Alex told me he drew a simul game circa 1935 against Alexander Alekhine in Yugoslavia, while Alekhine was World Champion.
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