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Why can't Canadians play good chess?

Why can't Canadians play good chess?

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Originally posted by jimslyp69
And so are people who's username begins with 'J'. 🙄
NO!

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Originally posted by tomtom232
Why can't Canadians play good chess?
Why can't Americans speak good English?

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Originally posted by darvlay
Why can't Americans speak good English?
Why can't some of them speak English well?

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Originally posted by darvlay
Why can't Americans speak good English?
Nobody on this site speaks English, whilst here, be they US, UK or World based. They just try and write it, and generally it's to a very poor standard! :'(

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Originally posted by tomtom232
I ain't American
Liar

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And remember, they can't help it if they're Canadian. No one chooses their race.

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Originally posted by Frank Burns
And remember, they can't help it if they're Canadian. No one chooses their race.
Not true!

See: Kirksey and DoctorScribbles

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LOL tomtom you're gettin hammered off your own joke.. I love it.

It's true though.. I can't think of a single good (GM/superGM)canadian chess player off hand..

And you do seem to have my number despite me being a million times better than you when I give you a muzio 😛.

And you are one of the few players on this site smart enough to avoid the traxler or french lines which I so love to play.

... but the nice thing about being in canada is that you don't have to be all that good at something (hockey excluded) to be the best in the country 😛.

Crosby is da bomb... i couldn't believe it...

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Originally posted by Frank Burns
And remember, they can't help it if they're Canadian. No one chooses their race.
Canadian is not a race, it's a nationality.

Irish is a race, having been around a LOT longer.

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Originally posted by ih8sens
LOL tomtom you're gettin hammered off your own joke.. I love it.

It's true though.. I can't think of a single good (GM/superGM)canadian chess player off hand..

And you do seem to have my number despite me being a million times better than you when I give you a muzio 😛.

And you are one of the few players on this site smart enough to avoid the traxl xcluded) to be the best in the country 😛.

Crosby is da bomb... i couldn't believe it...
Pascual Charbonneau's a pretty good player (2500ish at 24 years old); here's a nice win he had against Vishy in 2006: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1417848

He also beat Nigel Short in Montreal earlier this year.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1467466

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Originally posted by ih8sens
It's true though.. I can't think of a single good (GM/superGM)canadian chess player off hand..

Canada has had ten over-the-board grandmasters: Peter Biyiasas who was awarded the title in 1978, Mark Bluvshtein 2004, Pascal Charbonneau 2006, Igor Ivanov 2005 (deceased), Joel Lautier (Born in France to a Canadian father) 1990, Alexandre Lesiege 1997, Kevin Spraggett 1985 (lives in Portugal), Duncan Suttles 1973, Dmitry Tyomkin 2000 (immigrated from Israel) and Daniel Yanofsky (deceased) 1964. Georgian/Israeli GM Yona Kosashvili is currently residing in Toronto with his wife IM Sofia Polgar.

In correspondence play, Canada has seen six grandmasters: Francis Jonathan Berry 1985, Jean Hébert 1984, Robert Kiviaho 1984, Wolfram Schön 2006, Duncan Suttles 1982 and Alexander Ugge 2005

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Originally posted by no1marauder
Pascual Charbonneau's a pretty good player (2500ish at 24 years old); here's a nice win he had against Vishy in 2006: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1417848

He also beat Nigel Short in Montreal earlier this year.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1467466
Also Jean Hebert.

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Originally posted by darvlay
Also Jean Hebert.
The REAL one or the RHP one?

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Originally posted by no1marauder
The REAL one or the RHP one?
The RHP one was much better than the real one, methinks.

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Originally posted by uzless
Canada has had ten over-the-board grandmasters: Peter Biyiasas who was awarded the title in 1978, Mark Bluvshtein 2004, Pascal Charbonneau 2006, Igor Ivanov 2005 (deceased), Joel Lautier (Born in France to a Canadian father) 1990, Alexandre Lesiege 1997, Kevin Spraggett 1985 (lives in Portugal), Duncan Suttles 1973, Dmitry Tyomkin 2000 (immigrated from Israel ...[text shortened]... ébert 1984, Robert Kiviaho 1984, Wolfram Schön 2006, Duncan Suttles 1982 and Alexander Ugge 2005
Sofia Polgar lives in Toronto?

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