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  • Canadian Chess Hall of Fame

    The Canadian Chess Hall of Fame Committee is accepting nominations for the Class of 2024, until Sunday, November 24. We welcome discussion of any nominations made. The complete list of the current Hall of Fane can be seen at the following site:
    https://mcc.devastation.ca/cchof.pdf

    A useful resource is David Cohen's Canadian Biography Site (last updated in 2018)
    https://www.canadianchess.info/canad...ographies.html

    Fred
    Canadian Hall of Fame Committee Chair

    other members include: Larry Bevand, Hugh Brodie, Ian Findlay, and Stephen Wright

  • #2
    I nominate IM Deen Hergott (born Kitchener, 1962).

    Deen has been a Canadian Junior Champion, a many-time member of the Canadian Olympiad Team, a tremendous writer and contributor to the En Passant / Chess Canada magazine over a period of several years, and an excellent newspaper columnist with the 'Ottawa Citizen' newspaper. He has had many successful international tournament performances, in Europe, Latin America, and the USA. Deen has also been a creative openings originator, most notably with his devastating adoption of the so-called new variation 'Dutch Benoni' / 'Beefeater' variation (1.d4 c5 2.d5 g6 3.c4 Bg7 4.Nc3 Bxc3+ 5.bxc3 f5), from the mid-1980s onward. Deen is a mathematics honors graduate of the University of Waterloo, which he has represented in international college team play.

    In addition to his wide-ranging chess achievements covering several decades, Deen has been a complete class act throughout his career, and is highly respected in the chess world, both in Canada and internationally.

    I believe Deen would be a most worthy selection for the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame.

    Best regards,
    Frank Dixon
    NTD, Kingston

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