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As we were putting together the list of past champions of Ottawa's RA chess club, with the invaluable assistance of David Cohen, the question arose: What is the oldest continuous chess club championship in Canada? In the case of the Ottawa RA Chess Club, we have a continuous record back to 1954 including such illustrious names as Lawrence Day, Ron Rodgers and Ken Winterton as multiple winners.
Are there other clubs that can top this?:)
As we were putting together the list of past champions of Ottawa's RA chess club, with the invaluable assistance of David Cohen, the question arose: What is the oldest continuous chess club championship in Canada? In the case of the Ottawa RA Chess Club, we have a continuous record back to 1954 including such illustrious names as Lawrence Day, Ron Rodgers and Ken Winterton as multiple winners.
Are there other clubs that can top this?:)
The "continuous" part might be a problem for most clubs. The earliest I can remember going to the Scarborough Club was about 1963 and I had the impression that it had been around for some time when I started going there. The club that was based at the Downtown YMCA in Toronto (I think) may also have been around before 1964 (and that club no longer exists of course).
I have a feeling that a Winnipeg Club might stretch back quite a while, but I leave that to folks from out there...
The Montreal Chess Club (some years known as the "Westmount Chess Club" - depending on where it met in that particular year) was founded in 1844, and had regular championships until the 1960's. Unfortunately - almost all of its records were lost in a fire in January 1924, and I haven't been able to dig through old papers recently to find pre-1900 results.
Frank Marshall won the club championship a couple of times in the 1890's.
The club still exists - or at least the name does - on the 4th floor of the CMA building on Montreal.
The Lakeshore CC (suburban Montreal) has names on its championship trophy going back to 1973. The club itself (under that name) dates back to about 1960, and under various other names back to the late 1940's.
What is the oldest Canadian chess-related trophy that is still around (and still competed for)? How about oldest Canadian chess-related trophy that still exists (although it may not be competed for anymore - or "retired")?
2010 Yuanling Yuan
2009 John Hall
2008 Erwin Casareno
2007 John Hall, Bryan Lamb
2006 Donal Deiseach
2005 Bryan Lamb
2004 Imtiaz Husain, Bryan Lamb
2003 Bryan Lamb
2002 Allan Cai
2001 Allan Cai, Bryan Lamb
2000 Bryan Lamb
1999 Joachim Hentschel
1997-8 Bryan Lamb
1996-7 Joachim Hentschel
1995-6 Andrei Moffat
1994-5 Bob Long
1991-2 Ron Livshits
1990-1 Grant Spraggett
1989-90 Hugh Murphy
1987-8 Imtiaz Husain
1986-7 Laszlo Witt
1985-6 Joachim Hentschel
1984-5 Mark Leliever, Zbigniew Okolotowicz
1982-3 Brian Fiedler, Joachim Hentschel
1981-2 Deen Hergott, Bob Long
1980-1 Alex Morrison
1971 John Angermann
1969-70 David Broughton *, John Kohlfurst
1968-9 Hans Beck
1967-8 Hans Beck
1966-7 William Albin *, Peter Skelton
1965-6 Alex Strojevs
1964-5 Helmut Lanziner
1963-4 Dusan Kustudic
1962-3 Andrew Pressburger
(1st) 1961 John Kohlfurst
________________________________________
* Winner or advances to next stage on tie-break
.
Note from DC –
Other years it was not held; or not reported in the CFC magazine.
What is the oldest Canadian chess-related trophy that is still around (and still competed for)? How about oldest Canadian chess-related trophy that still exists (although it may not be competed for anymore - or "retired")?
The Drewry Cup, first awarded to the winner of the Canadian Championship in 1904, has since been retired but still exists in Winnipeg - photo. In the May/June 1997 issue of En Passant there is a photo of the DeSoyres Cup (1888), which at the time was in the possession of Jonathan MacDonald. There has been a succession of trophies for the B.C. Championship since its inception in 1916 - the current trophy dates from 1956.
The Victoria Chess club has two trophies for the Victoria and/or Victoria club championship - the Gonnason Cup which dates 1921-1930 (currently in Stephen Wright's possession) and the Victoria Cup with winners on it 1936-1968 (and was recently restored / refurbished by the club). There have not been recent championships although I was thinking of something for later this year.
photos and other info at: http://victoriachessclub.pbworks.com...5/Club-History (including a link to the BCCF bulletin with an article by Stephen on the cup). There are also a few other club trophies listed which go back a quite a few years.
The Kingston Chess Club has run a Club Championship / City Championship consecutively for a similar length of time to the RA Club in Ottawa, roughly since the mid-1950s.
Some distinguished past Kingston winners include the following talented Masters: NM Andrew Kalotay, NM Bill Doubleday, NM Martin Devenport, NM Maher Saleh, IMC Mario Adriano, GMC/FM Martin Kreuzer, NM Brian Profit, IM Raja Panjwani. :) :)
How long has the U of T's Hart House had the words "chess" printed on its doors for? Looking at the trophy cases between rounds on that floor shows a chess-related trophy, & one wonders whether it is or had been continually awarded for a period of time (not too many names on the plaque, but one assumes that the University club might've existed back to 1924: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1012317 - if this is where that event took place) or had been retired for another cup.
How long have the universities hosted clubs for, even if not continually? A couple of photos of members of the Queen's chess club are occasionally found. It might also make for an interesting discussion of competition history of various Canadian university championship cups.
Brantford goes back a long ways too. The trophy has no winner listed for 1997 but that was a merger year for the two clubs; an event may have been run and just not "counted" ?
Here is the list of cmapnions of Ottawa's RA Chess Club since 1954:
RA Chess Club Champions
2010 Zi Yi Qin
2009 David Gordon
2008 Karoly Szalay
2007 Valdizon/Cliff
2006 David Gordon
2005 Alex Davies
2004 Ozren Nezirovic
2003 Miladin Derkovic
2002 Kevin Pacey
2001 Hum/De Kerpel
2000 Devenport/Derkovic
1999 Deen Hergott
1998 Peter Hum
1997 Deen Hergott
1996 Miladin Derkovic
1995 Miladin Derkovic
1994 Bunning/Devenport/Pacey/Saleh
1993 ---
1992 Kevin Pacey
1991 Peter Ferguson
1990 Martin Devenport
1989 Saleh/Hergott
1988 Hergott/Sexton/Winterton
1987 Philip Northover
1986 Prosanto Sarkar
1985 Ken Winterton
1984 Dougherty/Gilmore/Sexton/Veltmann
1983 Bob Zuk
1982 Ed Marlowe
1981 Dougherty/Winterton
1980 Ken Winterton
1979 Wayne Barclay
1978 Dave ross
1977 Fred Howey
1976 Robert South
1975 Fred South
1974 Ken Winterton
1973 Jan Krotki
1972 Charles Jeanneret
1971 Alex Downham
1970 Doug Dougherty
1969 Byrne/Pedersen
1968 Lawrence Day
1967 Lawrence Day
1966 Lawrence Day
1965 Vernon Pedersen
1964 Vernon Pedersen
1963 Ron Rodgers
1962 Ken Winterton
1961 W. Oldemeir
1960 Ron Rodgers
1959 Ron Rodgers
1958 Ron Rodgers
1957 Ron Rodgers
1956 Ron Rodgers
1955 S. Kiltces
1954 Ron Rodgers
2010 Yuanling Yuan
2009 John Hall
2008 Erwin Casareno
2007 John Hall, Bryan Lamb
2006 Donal Deiseach
2005 Bryan Lamb
2004 Imtiaz Husain, Bryan Lamb
2003 Bryan Lamb
2002 Allan Cai
2001 Allan Cai, Bryan Lamb
2000 Bryan Lamb
1999 Joachim Hentschel
1997-8 Bryan Lamb
1996-7 Joachim Hentschel
1995-6 Andrei Moffat
1994-5 Bob Long
1991-2 Ron Livshits
1990-1 Grant Spraggett
1989-90 Hugh Murphy
1987-8 Imtiaz Husain
1986-7 Laszlo Witt
1985-6 Joachim Hentschel
1984-5 Mark Leliever, Zbigniew Okolotowicz
1982-3 Brian Fiedler, Joachim Hentschel
1981-2 Deen Hergott, Bob Long
1980-1 Alex Morrison
1971 John Angermann
1969-70 David Broughton *, John Kohlfurst
1968-9 Hans Beck
1967-8 Hans Beck
1966-7 William Albin *, Peter Skelton
1965-6 Alex Strojevs
1964-5 Helmut Lanziner
1963-4 Dusan Kustudic
1962-3 Andrew Pressburger
(1st) 1961 John Kohlfurst
________________________________________
* Winner or advances to next stage on tie-break
.
Note from DC –
Other years it was not held; or not reported in the CFC magazine.
Bob
I won the club championship one year. It was in the early 1970's. The winner of the Swiss tournament was the club champion at the time. There was a club champion in 1972, 1973 and 1974 for sure. It crossed the year. Like 1971-1972, etc. It was the season starting in September.
How long has the U of T's Hart House had the words "chess" printed on its doors for?
The Cupboard where all the chess club stuff is stored has some really old stuff in it... Alex told me once upon a time that they were going to take an inventory of all the old books and documents in there, but I don't know if that ever happened. I definately recall seeing chess yearbooks in there with dates from the first decade of the 20th century... though they may be year volumes of periodicals aquired at a later date.
My understanding is that the club was the Victoria College Chess club before VC federated with U of T in 1890-- how long it was extant before that I don't know.
I imagine compiling any lists beyond what is possessed by the Hart House administration would be quite challenging considering the membership changes so rapidly (being a university club).
It would be interesting to dig through the cupboard and see what all is there
Last edited by Stuart Brammall; Friday, 28th January, 2011, 11:26 PM.
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