Phil Haley: 60 Years Playing Against Canadian Titlests

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Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 22:17

Phil Haley: 1924-2017

Phil Haley, long-time Canadian chess organizer, International Arbiter, Olympiad official, and chess player, died at the age of 94. 

In 1977 he was awarded a medal from the Governor General of Canada for his contributions to Canadian chess. 

At the 2016 Baku Olympiad he was made made a FIDE Honorary Member, joining long-time chess contributors as Max Euwe, Victor Kortchnoi, Arpad Elo, and Canada's John Prentice. 

Among his contributions: President of the CFC (71-73), FIDE rep for Canada (94-99), and a FIDE official at multiple Olympiads.

Rather than repeat all is his achievments and awards, the Newsfeed suggests reading the excellent Obit in the Globe and Mail, and reading (and contributing) to the posts about Phil on ChessTalk (links below).

Globe and Mail Obituary

http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20171014.93393945/BDAStory/BDA/deaths

ChessTalk posts

http://forum.chesstalk.com/showthread.php?16384-Phil-Haley-1924-2017-R-I-P

Six Decades Playing Against Canada's Best

Reviewing databases shows that Phil Haley played against the very best Canadians for a full 60 years! What is remarkable is not Phil's results -- he has a losing record against the best, as does almost everyone -- but the fact that these games span a full 60 years, most of them at Canadian Opens ranging across the country, the last one sees him playing a 28-year-old GM when Phil was 81 years old.

Below are six annotated games against six of the best Canadian chess players:

    • 1945 - Abe Yanofsky
    • 1953 - Frank Anderson
    • 1962 - Lawrence Day
    • 1988 - Bryon Nickoloff
    • 1999 - Kevin Spraggett
    • 2005 - Dimitri Tyomkin

No doubt this list could be extended if more games were available. 

 


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