John Morrison (chess player)

John Morrison (chess player)

John Stuart Morrison (7 December 18891 March 1975) was a Canadian chess Master, who was born and died in Toronto.citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=291
]

He won the Canadian Chess Championship five times (1910, 1913, 1922, 1924, and 1926) and shared first place in 1931 (Maurice Fox won play-off). [ [http://web.ncf.ca/bw998/canchess.html Canadian Chess ] ] He took twelfth place at New York 1913 (José Raúl Capablanca won), took seventh place at New York 1918 (Capablanca won), and tied for 14-15th place at London 1922 (Capablanca won). [ [http://www.chessmetrics.com Welcome to the Chessmetrics site ] ]

Morrison played at first board (+5 –6 =4) for Canada in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939. [ [http://www.olimpbase.org/players/rrp71p1l.html Morrison, John Stewart] team chess record at olimpbase.org]

References

Further reading

*"American Chess Bulletin", 1914, p. 33
*"Toronto Globe and Mail", March 3, 1975, p. 33
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last=Yanofsky | first=D. A. | author-link=Daniel Yanofsky
year=1967 | title=100 Years of Chess in Canada
page=20


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