Eric Hansen - Officially #1 in Canada!

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Eric Hansen - Officially #1 in Canada!

More on Valerian Adam and "suspicions" from 2006 and 2007 (games from his IM norm events don't seem to be available):

http://chesslodge.blogspot.ca/2006/1...rian-adam.html

And from an interview with John Donaldson (about 3 screens down):

http://www.saintlouischessclub.com/c...-donaldson-wtc

[Louis Morin]

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Isn't he the guy who got his title under extremely suspicious circumstances at the age of 70 in some corrupted chess country?

I never heard about that before. According to the FIDE website, he played in Serbia, Croatia and Rumania. Are these corrupted chess countries?

At any rate, I have to admit that his ICC rating is a lot less than his FIDE rating, but there are quite a few IMs rated between 1800-2000 on ICC.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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Where is an all-time best ratings' list for CAN?

[Bindi Cheng]

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IM Valerian Adam (#23 on the list, 76-year old) is still active on ICC. I recently played 6 games with him.

Isn't he the guy who got his title under extremely suspicious circumstances at the age of 70 in some corrupted chess country?

[Louis Morin]

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IM Valerian Adam (#23 on the list, 76-year old) is still active on ICC. I recently played 6 games with him.

[Louis Morin]

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IM Valerian Damian is still active on ICC.

[Marcus Wilker]

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He is now inactive.

... but still ruling the all-time list FWIW:



http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml...=2&country=CAN

[Felix Dumont]

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Where is Mark on this list? He was around 2600...

He is now inactive.

[Laurentiu Grigorescu]

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Where is Mark on this list? He was around 2600...

[Zeljko Kitich]

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Careful - *you* might end up as the Beach Bum of the Day.
I dare say we aren't ready for that...

:D

[Kerry Liles]

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Way to go & congrats. About time we had somebody sane on top of the list.

Careful - *you* might end up as the Beach Bum of the Day.
I dare say we aren't ready for that...

[Ken MacDonald]

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Way to go & congrats. About time we had somebody sane on top of the list.

I am ROTFLMAO!

[Zeljko Kitich]

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It seems appropriate for Canada's newest GM to finally claim the spot as Canada's #1 player on the FIDE list. Congrats! :D

Way to go & congrats. About time we had somebody sane on top of the list.

[Hans Jung]

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It seems appropriate for Canada's newest GM to finally claim the spot as Canada's #1 player on the FIDE list. Congrats! :D

Long may he reign!

[Roger Patterson]

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It seems appropriate for Canada's newest GM to finally claim the spot as Canada's #1 player on the FIDE list. Congrats! :D

I have 3.5/7 against that list :-)

Get em while they're young!