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Frank Ross Anderson (born 3 January 1928, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – died 18 September 1980, San Diego, California, USA) was a Canadian International Master of chess, and a chess writer. Events 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Edmonton (ˈɛdmɨntɨn is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The title International Master is awarded to outstanding Chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. He twice won gold medals at the chess Olympiads, for the best scores on his board. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other Anderson tied for the Canadian Chess Championship in 1953 and won this title outright in 1955. This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open

Biography

Frank Anderson became very ill with childhood rheumatoid arthritis in Toronto, and learned to play chess while bedridden. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Unable to exercise his body, he exercised his mind. He first played correspondence chess, becoming a strong player quite quickly. Correspondence chess is Chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence usually through a Correspondence chess server, through email or by He was encouraged by chess promoter Bernard Freedman (who became his first sponsor), his good friend Keith Kerns and later by John G. Prentice, who served as Canada's representative to the FIDE, the World Chess Federation. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the Despite his physical disability, he graduated in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto. Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus

His first noteworthy result was in the 1946 Canadian Championship in Toronto. Anderson scored 10/13 in the preliminaries, just missing qualification for the top section finals; he won section 2 of the finals. ^[1]. In 1951, he took 2nd, behind Povilas Vaitonis, in Vancouver (CAN-ch). Povilas (Paul Vaitonis ( 15 August 1911, in Užpaliai, Lithuania – 23 April 1983, in Hamilton, Canada Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal In 1953, he tied for 1st with Daniel Yanofsky in Winnipeg (CAN-ch). Daniel Abraham (Abe Yanofsky ( March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000) was Canada 's first Chess grandmaster, an eight-time Winnipeg (ˈwɪnɨpɛg is the capital and largest city in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and 7th largest municipality in Canada with a population In 1955, he won in Ottawa (CAN-ch). Ottawa (ˈɒtəwə or sometimes /ˈɒtəwɑː/ is the Capital of Canada and the country's fourth largest municipality. In 1957, he tied for 3rd-4th with Miervaldis Jursevskis, after Vaitonis and Géza Füster, in Vancouver (CAN-ch). Miervaldis ‘Walter’ Jursevskis (born 1921 Riga, Latvia) a Latvian-Canadian Chess master Géza Füster ( 19 February 1910 – 1990 was a Hungarian - Canadian Chess International Master. Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal ^[2].

Anderson played three times for Canada in Chess Olympiads (1954, 1958, 1964). The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other He won the second-board gold medal at Amsterdam 1954, with a score of (+13 =2 -2), and repeated the feat at Munich 1958, with a score of (+9 =3 -1). Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. At Tel Aviv 1964, he scored (+4 =3 -5) on second board (http://www.olimpbase.org). Tel Aviv-Yafo (תֵּל ־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ تل أبيب Tal ʾAbīb) (usually Tel Aviv) is the second-largest city in Israel He came closer to the Grandmaster title than any other player, but became ill (reaction to an incorrect prescription), and was unable to play his final round in Munich. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. He missed the Grandmaster title because of this. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. Even if he had played and lost, he would have made the final norm necessary for the Grandmaster title. His Olympiad totals were (+26 =8 -8), for 71. 4 per cent. ^[3]

Awarded the IM title in 1954, he became the first Canadian-born International Master. The title International Master is awarded to outstanding Chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

He lost a transatlantic cable game with Igor Bondarevsky played over four days in February 1954. Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky ( Russian: Игорь Захарович Бондаревский) ( May 12, 1913, Rostov-on-the-Don, He played at the Canadian Hobby and Homecraft Show. ^[4] But Anderson won a return game when Bondarevsky visited Toronto a few months later in July 1954. ^[5]. Anderson scored 7/10 in the 1956 Canadian Open Chess Championship in Montreal for a shared 8-12th place, drawing his game in the last round with 13-year-old Bobby Fischer. The Canadian Open Chess Championship is Canada 's Open Chess championship first held in 1956 and held annually since 1973 usually in mid-summer Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Robert James "Bobby" Fischer ( March 9 1943 – January 17 2008) was an American -born Chess Grandmaster ^[6]

He wrote a weekly chess column for the The Hamilton Spectator, 1955-1964, and was co-author (along with Keith Kerns) of the tournament book of the Fourth Biennial World Junior Chess Championship, Toronto 1957. The Hamilton Spectator, founded in 1846, is a newspaper published every day but Sunday in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 Chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition organized Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario In this book, he came up with a small innovation, writing the moves in descriptive notation with no '-'; that is, he wrote PK4 instead of the normal P-K4 (see Descriptive chess notation). Descriptive chess notation, or just descriptive notation is a notation for recording Chess games and at one time was the most popular notation in Britain

He was a computer expert, and played with a computer chess program in 1958. A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. The idea of creating a Chess -playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century ^[7] He moved to California after the 1964 Olympiad, where he lived with his wife Sylvia, settling in San Diego, where he operated a tax consulting business. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.

Canadian Chess Hall of Fame Inductee 2001.

Style, and noteworthy chess games

The site chessbase. com has a selection of his games. His style was precise and positional, with an emphasis on the endgame, but he could also create clever tactics. He favoured 1. e4 as White. Here are three of his wins over Grandmasters, with the moves given in algebraic notation. His opponents were very strong; Yanofsky was an 8-time Canadian champion, Bondarevsky was a former Soviet champion, and Stalhberg was a many-time Swedish champion and a 1953 Candidate. A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. A candidate is the prospective recipient of an Award or honor or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position for example to be elected

Daniel Yanofsky -- Frank Anderson, Closed Canadian Chess Championship, Vancouver 1951, Ruy Lopez, Open Defence (C81): 1. Daniel Abraham (Abe Yanofsky ( March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000) was Canada 's first Chess grandmaster, an eight-time This is the list of all the winners of the Canadian Chess Championship, often referred to as the Canadian Closed Championship to distinguish it from the annual Canadian Open The Ruy Lopez, called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game outside English speaking countries, is a Chess opening characterised by the moves e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. 0-0 Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. Qe2 Nc5 10. Rd1 Be7 11. Be3 Nxb3 12. axb3 Qc8 13. Bg5 Bxg5 14. Nxg5 0-0 15. c4 Ne7 16. cxd5 Bxd5 17. Qc2 g6 18. f3 h6 19. Nc3 c6 20. Nge4 Qe6 21. Nf6+ Kg7 22. Re1 Bb3 23. Qc1 b4 24. Ng4 Nf5 25. Ne4 Qc4 26. Qf4 Qd4+ 27. Kh1 Rfe8 28. Qc1 h5 29. Ngf6 Rh8 30. Nc5 h4 31. h3 Bc4 32. Nce4 Ng3+ 33. Nxg3 hxg3 34. Ne4 Bd5 35. Nxg3 Rxh3+ 36. gxh3 Bxf3+ 0-1.

Frank Anderson -- Igor Bondarevsky, Toronto 1954, Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defence (C73): 1. Igor Zakharovich Bondarevsky ( Russian: Игорь Захарович Бондаревский) ( May 12, 1913, Rostov-on-the-Don, Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario The Ruy Lopez, called the Spanish Opening or Spanish Game outside English speaking countries, is a Chess opening characterised by the moves e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. d4 f6 7. c4 Ne7 8. Nc3 g6 9. c5 Bg7 10. cxd6 cxd6 11. 0-0 Bg4 12. dxe5 dxe5 13. Qe2 0-0 14. h3 Be6 15. Na4 Qa5 16. Qc2 g5 17. Nc5 Bf7 18. Be3 Qc7 19. Rfd1 Rfd8 20. Rxd8+ Rxd8 21. Nxa6 Qc8 22. Nc5 Ng6 23. a4 Bf8 24. a5 Bxc5 25. Qxc5 Qa6 26. Rc1 Rc8 27. Qd6 Kg7 28. b4 h6 29. Nh2 h5 30. Nf1 h4 31. Nh2 Nf8 32. Ng4 Nh7 33. Bb6 Qa8 34. Rc3 c5 35. Rxc5 Rxc5 36. Bxc5 Qxe4 37. Be3 Qd5 38. Qe7 Qc6 39. Nxh6 Kxh6 40. Qxf7 Qc3 41. Qe7 Qd3 42. Qe6 Qd8 43. a6 Nf8 44. Qc6 1-0.

Frank Anderson -- Gideon Stahlberg, Munich Olympiad 1958, Sicilian Defence, B45: 1. Gideon Ståhlberg (or Stahlberg) (1908–1967 was a Swedish Chess grandmaster. The Sicilian Defence is a Chess opening that begins with the moves 1 e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Ndb5 Bb4 7. a3 Bxc3+ 8. Nxc3 d5 9. exd5 exd5 10. Bd3 0-0 11. 0-0 h6 12. Bf4 d4 13. Nb5 a6 14. Nd6 Bg4 15. Qd2 Qd7 16. h3 Be6 17. Rfe1 Rfd8 18. Re2 Nd5 19. Bh2 Qe7 20. Ne4 Rc8 21. Rae1 b5 22. Kh1 Qf8 23. Ng3 Nde7 24. Qf4 Bc4 25. Qe4 Bxd3 26. Qxd3 Ng6 27. Nf5 Qc5 28. Qf3 Kh7 29. Qg4 d3 30. cxd3 Nd4 31. Re5 Qb6 32. h4 Nxf5 33. Rxf5 Qd4 34. Qxd4 Rxd4 35. h5 Nh8 36. Be5 Rd5 37. Rf3 f6 38. Bc3 Rxh5+ 39. Kg1 Rc6 40. Re7 Ng6 41. Ra7 Kg8 42. Ra8+ Kh7 43. Ra7 Kg8 44. g3 Rd5 45. Re3 Rd8 46. d4 Rcd6 47. Kg2 Red7 48. Rxd7 Rxd7 49. Re6 Ra7 50. Bb4 Kf7 51. Rb6 Nf8 52. Bc5 Nd7 53. Rc6 Ra8 54. b4 h5 55. Kf3 g5 56. Rc7 Ke8 57. Ke4 a5 58. Kf5 axb4 59. Bxb4 h4 60. gxh4 gxh4 61. d5 h3 62. Rc3 Kf7 63. Rxh3 Nb6 64. d6 Re8 65. Rh7+ Kg8 66. Rb7 1-0.

See also Frank Gilbert Anderson

References

1. ^ http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/Tables2017.htm<ref>. Anderson won the [[Toronto]] Championship six times (1947-48-50-51-52-58). In 1948, he tied for first place in the U. S. Junior Championship in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with future Grandmaster [[Arthur Bisguier]]. He won the [[Ontario]] Open Championship in 1948, 1949, and 1951 (source: David Cohen's Canadian Chess site). He twice won Closed [[Canadian Chess Championship]]s. In 1949, he tied for 3rd-4th, after [[Maurice Fox]] and [[Fedor Bohatirchuk]], in [[Arvida]] (CAN-ch). <ref>[http://www. rogerpaige. me. uk/Tables%2017. htm 1946<!-- Bot generated title -->]</li> <li id="cite_note-1">'''[[#cite_ref-1|^]]''' http://www. chessmetrics. com, the Frank Anderson player file. </li> <li id="cite_note-2">'''[[#cite_ref-2|^]]''' [http://www. olimpbase. org OlimpBase :: the encyclopaedia of team chess<!-- Bot generated title -->]</li> <li id="cite_note-3">'''[[#cite_ref-3|^]]''' ''[[Toronto Star]]'', Feb. 13, 1954. </li> <li id="cite_note-4">'''[[#cite_ref-4|^]]''' ''[[Toronto Star]]'', July 6, 1954. </li> <li id="cite_note-5">'''[[#cite_ref-5|^]]''' ''The Chess Games of Robert J. Fischer'', edited by [[Robert Wade (chess player)|Robert Wade]] and Kevin O'Connell, Batsford 1972, p. 105. </li> <li id="cite_note-6">'''[[#cite_ref-6|^]]''' ''[[Toronto Star]]'', Mar 2, 1959. </li></ol></ref>

   External links

   • Canadian Chess History