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I stand corrected on the site of the Canadian Championship 1945. Thanks for digging up the evidence. Dandy tournament picture!! I was thinking of Toronto 1946. :)
UK: 10-DAY CHESS CONGRESS OPENS AT BOGNOR REGIS WITH 13 COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
Story A 10-DAY INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS BEGAN AT THE ENGLISH SOUTH COAST HOLIDAY RESORT OF BOGNOR REGIS TODAY(WEDNESDAY), WITH CHESS PLAYERS FROM 13 COUNTRIES TAKING PART. THE CONGRESS IS BEING HELD ON THE GROUNDS OF A HOLIDAY CAMP, WHERE MANY OF THE PLAYERS ARE STAYING WITH THEIR FAMILIES. THE MAIN EVENT OF THE CONGRESS IS THE CHURCHILL MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT, DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, THE BRITISH LEADER DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, WHO DIED LAST YEAR. THE WINNER WILL RECEIVE A PRIZE OF GBP100 STERLING AND THERE ARE CASH PRIZES FOR THE FIRST SIX PLACES. ABOUT 80 PLAYERS ARE TAKING PART IN THE EVENT, MOST OF THEM BRITISH. IN THE CHURCHILL MEMORIAL EVENT, PLAYERS HAVE TO MAKE A MINIMUM OF 45 MOVES IN THE FIRST TWO AND A HALF HOURS AND 18 MOVES AN HOUR AFTERWARDS. IN ALL OTHER EVENTS THE RATE OF PLAY IS 40 MOVES IN THE FIRST TWO HOURS AND 20 MOVES AN HOUR AFTERWARDS. THE CONTESTANTS INCLUDE FIVE STUDENTS FROM BELGRADE UNIVERSITY, KNOWN AS...
13 Apr 1966
ENGLAND: YUGOSLAV DISC JOCKEY WINS INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS
Story NIKOLAI KARAKLAIC, WHO WORKS AS A DISC JOCKEY ON RADIO BELGRADE, WON THE CHURCHILL MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT AT THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CHESS CONGRESS, WHICH ENDED YESTERDAY IN BOGNOR REGIS, THE SEASIDE RESORT ON THE SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND. SECOND PLACE IN THE ELEVEN-DAY CONGRESS ALSO WENT TO A YUGOSLAV, ALEXANDER MATANOVIC. FOUR PLAYERS SHARED THIRD PLACE. THERE WERE: A. GULDBRANDSEN OF NORWAY, V. CIOCALTEA OF RUMANIA, H. BOUWMEESTER OF HOLLAND, AND THE TOP BRITISH PLAYER, MICHAEL BASMAN, A 20-YEAR-OLD UNIVERSITY STUDENT. THE SENSATION OF THE CONGRESS WAS, HOWEVER, TERANCE HART, A 16-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLBOY, WHOSE PLAY WAS DESCRIBED BY THE FOREIGN MASTERS AS...
24 Apr 1966
Churchill Memorial Tournament, Bognor Regis. Almost all results are shown for the first two rounds. Subsequent rounds have only the top 13-14 boards (out of about 35) - so if he had a bad score going into the round, his result is not shown. I'm sure more details about the event would have been in the magazine - except that the Petrosian-Spassky World Championship match was going on at the same time. If someone has a "BCM" from that era, there might be more details there.
Round 1 (April 13, 1966): Divinsky-R.Moss: 1-0 forfeit.
Round 2 (April 14, 1966): M.Basman(1)-Divinsky(1): 1-0.
Round 3 (April 15, 1966): unknown.
Round 4 (April 16, 1966): unknown.
Round 5 (April 17, 1966): unknown. He got 2.5/3 in these "unknown" games.
Round 6 (April 18, 1966): R.G.Wade(3.5)-Divinsky(3.5): 1-0.
Round 7 (April 19, 1966): unknown.
Round 8 (April 20, 1966): unknown.
Round 9 (April 21, 1966): unknown. He got 2/3 in these "unknown" games.
Round 10 (April 22, 1966): Divinsky (5.5)-D.E.Lloyd(5.5): 1-0.
Round 11 (April 23, 1966): unknown opponent - but it was a Divinsky win.
Here are the leading scores:
9.0-2.0: N.Karaklaic (YUG)
8.5-2.5: A.Matanovic (YUG)
8.0-3.0: V.Ciocaltea (ROM), A.Gulbrandsen (NOR), M.Bouwmeester (NED), M.Basman (ENG).
7.5-3.5: P.N.Lee (ENG), T.Hart (ENG), A.Whiteley (ENG), N.J. Divinsky (CAN), O.M.Hindle (ENG), A.K. May (ENG), F.Thorbergsson (ISL).
I first had the pleasure of meeting Nathan Divinsky when Hal Bond introduced me to him at the Winnipeg airport. He too had just arrived along with the CFC staff, and Igor Ivanov, before the 1994 Canadian Open. Our chaufeur was Albert Boxer, who drove up looking for Nathan. All of us hopped into his vehicle and were very fortunate to survive the drive to the hotel. Divinsky and Boxer were old buddies, and the conversation was hilarious. I was struck by how quickly Nathan and I hit it off, and we immediately seemed to become friends as if we had known each other all our lives. He was a fascinating man, filled with stories and tales, opinions and anecdotes, comments and concerns. He loved to talk, but was also very capable of listening and changing his views. And he could be tremendously funny in an off beat kind of way. I look back with fondness and a smile at the various times I spent with Nathan, and I feel thankful.
I do recall that he played at least one game of chess in the 1990s, in a simul against Kasparov. I remember an interesting sequence of king moves. The game may have been published in En Passant at the time.
Our chaufeur was Albert Boxer, who drove up looking for Nathan. All of us hopped into his vehicle and were very fortunate to survive the drive to the hotel.
Don't let old Air Force (RCAF) veterans chauffeur you. :)
I always liked Albert. He was good to us juniors. I seem to recall him driving a few of us to Minnesota for the Winnipeg - Minneapolis match at least one year.
Among other interactions, I was lucky enough to enjoy three weeks in Calvia 2004 with Nathan, where he held court at team dinners, regaling us with past stories of his own celebrity and intersecting with other famous people/players.
Nathan and I shared long breakfasts together each morning discussing various topics of mutual interest, and he continually amazed me with his knowledge and quick wit.
My favorite memory was when Nathan invited me to dinner with his good friend GM Lothar Schmid and his lovely wife, where I sat in awe of their stories of Fischer, business (Lothar founded, among other things, a successful publishing enterprise), and Europe.
Nathan showed me some of his early theoretical work on radicals in mathematics, and when I asked what the practicality of this work was...he replied "The future will reveal it"...I suspect many of Nathan's contributions will only be appreciated in future.
I for one, am in great debt to Nathan for the positive influence he had on me, which I unfortunately cannot now reciprocate directly, but hopefully to others.
I started playing tournament chess in 1967 in the Vancouver area. I never knew Divinsky to have played a tournament game nor give a simul nor play Blitz chess from then forward. I never saw him play chess, though I did see him talk about games. I vaguely recall that he wrote an article about attending a congress at Bognor Regis, England, Great Britain, where he played tournament games after a long break. Maybe it was fiction though, which is also literature.
By contrast, the older Elod Macskasy, who also worked at the UBC Math Department, played in tournaments, gave simuls, and played Blitz.
Divinsky spoke with great aplomb and authority. He was not under any delusions about his own chess strength, but he didn't see it as a bad thing that somebody could listen to him and take away a positive impression about chess.
I started playing chess in the Toronto area in 1965, and suscribed to Canadian Chess Chat, which I believe was edited at that time by Dr. Divinsky. Since he was also a mathematician at UBC, I thought that that was quite an accomplishment!
Was he also not married to Kim Campbell at one time!
Divinsky's "love life" from that infallible source - Wikipedia:
"Divinsky was married three times. He had three daughters from his first marriage: Judy, Pamela, and Mimi. Divinsky met Kim Campbell, 22 years younger, while she was an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia in the late 1960s. Their relationship continued while Campbell did graduate work at the London School of Economics, and the two were married in 1972. It was his second marriage and her first. Divinsky was a strong influence in interesting Campbell in political activity. The two divorced in 1983 [10 years before she became PM], but they remained on good terms. Their marriage produced no children. He died, aged 86, in Vancouver, survived by his third wife Marilyn Goldstone."
More from Wikipedia (from Kim Campbell's entry):
"Campbell married Howard Eddy in 1986, a marriage that lasted until shortly before she became prime minister. Campbell is the second prime minister of Canada to have been divorced, after Pierre Trudeau.
She briefly dated Gregory Lekhtman, the inventor of Exerlopers, during her term as prime minister, but the relationship was relatively private and she did not involve him in the election campaign. She is currently in a common-law relationship with Hershey Felder, an actor, playwright, composer, and concert pianist. Although childless, she remains close to Nathan Divinsky's daughter Pamelea."
Former CFC President Nathan Divinsky was a dedicated chess enthusiast. As CFC Fide representative for many years he did much to bring a Canadian prescence to FIDE and was well known by most of the worlds top players. He will be missed.
Les Bunning
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