10-time North-West Champion – the North-West Championship was the forerunner of the Manitoba Championship, and was contested from 1897 to 1930. R.J. Spencer won 10 times – 1897, 1902, 1906, 1919-1922, 1924, 1930. Read more at R. J. Spencer – … Continued
Our research shows that Charles Blake won the North West Championship, the pre-cursor to the Manitoba Closed, on no less than 6 occasions. https://mbchesshof.org/champions/ Stephen Wright (with additional information from Tony Boron) fills in more biographical detail here.
The first Manitoba – Minnesota Match commenced on May 25, 1935. The most recent version of the match was held on-line on May 24, 2020. This is the latest in a series of different formats in which the match has … Continued
May 2020 marks one hundred and forty-five years since the birth of Canon Henry L. C. Roy. Abe Yanofsky wrote in his 100 Years of Chess in Canada in 1967 that he regarded Roy as one of the four most … Continued
In the Winnipeg Tribune of March 2, 1906, it was reported that Magnus Smith ‘resigned’ the championship of the Northwest Chess association and the associated Fraser Cup, and that a new tournament would commence. That tournament was won by R.J. … Continued
The 1974 Batsford Chess Yearbook (published in 1975) has a few Manitobans listed in tournament results pages. For the Canadian Open, we see results for 23. John Burstow, 26. Cecil Rosner, 27. Neil Kirton, 169 Scott Cleghorn. (The seemingly random … Continued
MCA is naming the 2020 March TNT in honour of Herbert Gregory, a former Winnipeg Champion, Winnipeg Free Press Chess Editor, and longtime secretary of the MCA. Mr Gregory was the chess editor of the Winnipeg Free Press from March … Continued
Cecil Rosner wrote in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 22,2020″ Winnipeg’s Jewish community has played a critical role in the development of chess in this city, and that legacy will be celebrated next month at a special meeting organized by … Continued
MCA is naming the 2020 February TNT in honour of Agnar Rae Magnusson, a former Manitoba Champion. He also had a remarkable record in simultaneous exhbitions against visiting masters. He was a life-long educator. More on Mr. Magnusson here. https://mbchesshof.org/agnar-rae-magnusson/ … Continued
MCA is naming the 2020 January TNT in honour of Percy Chiswell. Perhaps not a readily recognizable name to current players, but he was a important figure in Manitoba chess in the period from 1920 to 1945. More on Mr. … Continued
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