Category: Toronto Closed

Where Annex Chess Club, 918 Bathurst St., Toronto When March 24 – June 2 2025. No play on April 21 Easter Monday) or May 19 (Victoria Day) Rounds start at 7:30. Format Nine-round round robin in multiple sections. Time Control 90m + 30s increment from move 1. Sections Championship, Reserve, Development, Annex (Ten players in…

1950s The 1950s started to have Swiss weekend tournaments, ratings and chess clocks. Zvonko Vranesic, Belgrade Junior Champion, came to Toronto and won the TC with a perfect 9-0 the first time he entered. The 1959 TC might have been played in Casa Loma. Frank Anderson was the dominant Toronto player, winning four TCs in…

1960s In 1962 Alexander Knox of the Scarborough Chess Club got things rolling organizing a swiss Toronto Closed, Team matches and the Canadian Open (won by Benko). 50 players played in five TCs. ’63 saw a 16 player round-robin played in one month, after that the TC was split into two or more sections, with…

1970s Ninety-nine players played in the TCs of the 70s. The 1970 TC was covered in the first issue of Chess Canada, published in Toronto by Dobrich, who also started a new chess column in the Toronto Star. The Central Y Chess Club was run by working members and was packed for Saturday afternoon speed.…

1987 Toronto Closed 1987 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total 1 Gordon Taylor 2288 X 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 8.5 2 Harry Kaminker 2227 0 X ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 8.5 3 Deen Hergott 2448…

1999: 1. A.Moffat, J.Ochkoos, and S.Glinert 1998: 1. B.Nickoloff 1997: 1. I.Zugic and B.Nickoloff   Toronto Closed 1997 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total 1 Igor Zugic 2286 X 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.5 2 Bryon Nickoloff 2499 1 X 0…

2010 No Name Rtg Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 Plotkin, Victor 2362 7.5 X 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 2 Sapozhnikov, Roman 2398 6.5 1 X 1 1 0 – 1 1 1 ½ 3 Calugar, Arthur 2350 6.5 0 0 X 1 1…

Toronto Closed History The Toronto Closed Chess Championship has been running annually, with only a couple of breaks, for a 100 years. The oldest record of a Toronto Championship was 1854 (unearthed by Larry Fyffe). Until recently, it was a tournament of the top players in Toronto. Multiple winners include Harry Belson 7, Geza Fuster,…