Visitors to Canada - simultaneous and exhibition games

A PGN file of associated games.

(Many thanks to Hugh Brodie for much of the Montréal information and Philip Jurgens who provided additional events and details.)

Player	Date	Location	# of boards/type (score)	Comments
Henry Bird	22 January 1877	Montréal	19 (+11 =2 -6)	or 15 (+9 =2 -4)
	23/27 January 1877		4 consultation (+2 =1 -1)
	27/30 January 1877		17 (+12 =2 -3)
	February 1877	Sherbrooke	50 games, 1 loss
	10 February 1877	Montréal	25 (+21 =2 -2)
George Mackenzie	3 January 1879	Montréal	14 (+12 =1 -1)
	4 January 1879		12 (+11 =1 -0)
	7 January 1879		13 (+11 =0 -2)
	9 January 1879		11 opponents (+13? =4 -1)
	14 January 1879		15 opponents (+14 =1 -4)
James Grundy	23 February 1880	Toronto	11 (+9 =0 -2)
	24 February 1880		8 (+6 =0 -2)
	25? February 1880	Hamilton	22 (+16 =0 -6)	"two rounds"
Johannes Zukertort	24 January 1884	Toronto	27 (+22 =3 -2)	possibly 3 more boards, +3
	25 January 1884		12 blindfold (+6 =1 -5)
	30 January 1884	Ottawa	19 (+16 =0 -3)
	31 January 1884		12 blindfold (+10 =1 -0, 1 unfinished)
	11 February 1884	Montréal	34 (+28 =3 -3)
	12 February 1884		12 blindfold (+8 =2 -2)
	19 February 1884	Québec City	29 (+24 =3 -2)	Daily Witness, 20 May 1884
	20 February 1884		23 (+21 =2 -0)	Daily Witness, 20 May 1884
	21 February 1884		12 blindfold (+10 =1 -1)	Daily Witness, 20 May 1884
Henry Bird	May/June 1889	Montréal	150 games in first week, -9	not well documented in press
Joseph Blackburne	4 June 1889	Montréal	25 (+21 =2 -2)
	6 June 1889		24 (+18 =5 -1)
	8 June 1889		8 blindfold (+3 =4 -1)
	10 June 1889		30 (+28 =1 -1)
Emanuel Lasker	21 November 1892	Montréal	24 (+21 =2 -1)
	22 November 1892		4 individual (+4)
	23 November 1892		3 individual, 1 consultation (+4)
	24 November 1892		26 (+23 =2 -1)
	26 November 1892	Québec City	5 (+5 =0 -0)
			16 (+14 =1 -1)
William H.K. Pollock	29 March 1893	Montréal (Le Club d'Echecs Canadiens Francais)	6 blindfold	La Presse, 1 April 1893, 2
William Steinitz	13 November 1893	Montréal	16 (+15 =0 -1)
	14 November 1893		2 consultation, +2
	15 November 1893		"2 people at once" +10?
	17 November 1893		+18?
	18 November 1893		2 consultation, +2
	20 November 1893		2 consultation, +2
	21 November 1893		16 (+15 =0 -1)
	22 November 1893		2 consultation, +2
	25 November 1893		22 (+20 =1 -1)
William Steinitz	30 November 1893	Québec City	13 (+12 =0 -1)
	1 December 1893		2 consultation, +2	Quebec Morning Chronicle, 6 December 1893, 4
	1 December 1893		13 (+12 =0 -1)	as above
Francis J. Lee	14 April 1894	Montréal	15 (+12 =1 -2)
	16 April 1894		14 (+12 =1 -1)
	April 1894		11 (+9 =0 -2)
Harry N. Pillsbury	16 May 1894	Montréal	10 blindfold (+7 =2 -1)
Harry N. Pillsbury	2 June 1894	Montréal	12 blindfold (+8 =0 -4)
Frank J. Marshall	September 1898	Montréal	match with Jasnogrodsky, 3-3
Harry N. Pillsbury	17 January 1899	Winnipeg	23 (+20 =0 -3)	also 6 checkers
	18 January 1899		7, consulting pairs on 5 (+6 =1 -0)
			6 blindfold (+6 =0 -0)	also two hands of whist
Harry N. Pillsbury	5 February 1900	Winnipeg	14 opponents (+16 =0 -1)	also +7 =1 at checkers
			32 (+29 =3 -0)	also +4 =4 -2 at checkers
	6 February 1900		2 individual games, +2	also +3 =1 at checkers
			10 blindfold (+7 =1 -2)	also checkers and whist
Harry N. Pillsbury	3 November 1900	Montréal	25 (+20 =3 -2)
			16 blindfold (+12 =1 -3)
Harry N. Pillsbury	6 December 1900	Toronto	12 blindfold (+11 =1 -0)	also checkers and whist
	7 December 1900
	8 December 1900
Harry N. Pillsbury	12 January 1901	Winnipeg	22 (+17 =3 -2)	also +4 =2 -1 at checkers
			10 blindfold (+10 =0 -0)	also checkers and whist
Jacques Mieses	24 November 1903	Montréal	4 consultation with clocks
Harry N. Pillsbury	5 December 1903	Montréal	17 (+16 =0 -1)
			16 blindfold (+14 =1 -1)
Emanuel Lasker	15 December 1905	Montréal	14 (+11 =2 -1)
	16 December 1905		1 consultation (+1)
Géza Maróczy	16 April 1906	Winnipeg	game vs. M. Smith, +1
			19 (+16 =3 -0)
	17 April 1906		game vs. C. Blake, +1
			20 inc. 1 blind (+17 =1 -2)
	18 April 1906		game vs. M. Smith, +1
			1 consultation, +1
	19 April 1906		game vs. R.J. Spencer, +1
			14 (+14 =0 -0)
	20 April 1906		games vs. Smith and Burrell, +2	played simultaneously
	21 April 1906		game vs. C. Blake, +1
			27 (+24 =3 -0)
Frank J. Marshall	1 December 1906	Winnipeg	19 (+15 =0 -4)
			23 (+16 =6 -1)
Emanuel Lasker	7 June 1907	Winnipeg	14 (+12 =0 -2)
	8 June 1907		8 (+7 =0 -1)
			17 (+13 =2 -2)
Jacques Mieses	20 February 1908	Toronto	14 (+10 =2 -2)
			32 (+24 =7 -1)
José R. Capablanca	19 January 1909	Toronto	23 (+23 =0 -0)	1st American tour
José R. Capablanca	29 June 1909	Montréal	15 (+12 =3 -0)
	30 June 1909		17 (+15 =2 -0)
José R. Capablanca	17 November 1909	Montréal	24 (+22 =2 -0)	2nd American tour
Paul F. Johner	9 September 1910	Toronto (Chess Club)	10 (+8 =0 -2)	Globe, 10 September 1910, 27
José R. Capablanca	14 May 1912	Winnipeg	20 (+20 =0 -0)	4th American tour
	15 May 1912		20 (+20 =0 -0)	4th American tour
Frank J. Marshall	24 June 1913	Victoria	9 (blindfold?) (+8 =1 -0)
			17 (+13 =3 -1)
Frank J. Marshall	27 November 1914	Toronto	19 (+14 =5 -0)
			33 (+25 =4 -4)
Frank J. Marshall	2 December 1914	Montréal	27 (+21 =4 -2)
	10 December 1914		3 consultation, +1 =1 -1	2 players per board, simul?
			game vs. G. Marechal, -1	both players blindfolded
Frank J. Marshall	17 February 1915	Vancouver	26 (+22 =4 -0)
Frank J. Marshall	25 November 1915	Montréal (Cerle Saint-Pierre)	31 (+26 =2 -3)	La Presse, 26 November 1915, 6
	26 November 1915	Montréal (Westmount CC)	26 (+24 =1 -1)	La Presse, 24 December 1915, 11
	27 November 1915	Montréal (Westmount CC)	25 (+19 =5 -1)	La Presse, 29 November 1915, 9
Frank J. Marshall	10 March 1916	Toronto	21 (+20 =1 -0)
Frank J. Marshall	25 October 1916	Toronto	41 (+33 =6 -2)
Frank J. Marshall	6 March 1917	Toronto	34 (+29 =3 -2)
Frank J. Marshall	17 December 1919	Montréal	33 (+24 =6 -3)
	18 December 1919		27 (+22 =3 -2)
	19 December 1919		36 (+32 =2 -2)
	20 December 1919		22 (+16 =6 -0)
Charles Jaffe	8 October 1920	Montréal (Club National)	21 (+14 =6 -1)	La Presse, 8 October 1920, 7
	10 October 1920	Montréal (Theatre Gaiety)	20 (+18 =2 -0)	La Presse, 9 October 1920, 30
Frank J. Marshall	10 March 1921	Montréal	30 (+24 =5 -1)
	11 March 1921		29 (+23 =5 -1)
			22 (+19 =3 -0)
Frank J. Marshall	19 March 1921	Toronto	37 (+29 =7 -1)	Globe and Mail, 21 March 1921, 12
Samuel Reshevsky	26 April 1921	Toronto	17 (+15 =2 -0)	Reshevsky was 9 years old
Frank J. Marshall	7 January 1922	Montréal	155 (+126 =21 -8)	World record
Samuel Reshevsky	5 April 1923	Montréal (Monument National)	20 (+15 =5 -0)	La Presse, 6 April 1923, 18 (Reshevsky was 11)
Samuel Reshevsky	19 April 1923	Ottawa (YMCA)	26 (+26 =0 -0)	Ottawa Evening Citizen, 20 April 1923, 23
Frank J. Marshall	20 May 1923	Montréal	16 (+12 =4 -0)
Alexander A. Alekhine	22 November 1923	Montréal	37 (+27 =5 -5)
	24 November 1923	Québec City	26 (+26 =0 -0)
	25 November 1923	Trois Rivieres	24 (+24 =0 -0)
	26 November 1923	Montréal	27 (+25 =2 -0)
	29 November 1923		20 (+19 =1 -0)
	1 December 1923		21 blindfold (+12 =5 -4)	North American record
	3 December 1923		1 consultation (+1)
Alexander A. Alekhine	23 January 1924	Toronto	36 inc. 2 blind (+31 =4 -1)
Frederick D. Yates	14 May 1924	Montréal (Westmount Chess Club)	9 (+6 =2 -1)	Le Devoir, 17 May 17 1924, 11
Bruno Forsberg	18/21/22 July 1924	Winnipeg	beat R.J. Spencer 3-0	in the area for several months
Géza Maróczy	18 February 1925	Montréal (Westmount Chess Club)	15 (+13 =2 -0)	La Presse, 25 February 1925, 7
	20 February 1925	Montréal (Joseph Sawyer residence)	8 (+7 =0 -1)	La Presse, 28 February 1925, 44
	21 February 1925	Montréal (club National)	26 (+20 =6 -0)	La Presse, 25 February 1925, 7
Géza Maróczy	24 February 1925	Toronto (Central YMCA)	22 (+15 =5 -2)	La Presse, 14 March 1925, 68
Géza Maróczy	30 March 1925	Winnipeg	24 (+24 =0 -0)
			48 (+45 =3 -0)
	31 March 1925		26 (+24 =1 -1)
Sir George Thomas	1926	North Vancouver	12 (+12 =0 -0)
Emanuel Lasker	21 April 1926	Toronto	31 (+25 =5 -1)
Géza Maróczy	3 November 1926	Montréal Chess Club	15 (+14 =1 -0)	La Presse, 13 November 1926, 55; La Patrie, 4 November 1926, 1 (photo)
	10 November 1926	Montréal, Harmonia Chess Club	14 (+13 =1 -0)	La Presse, 13 November 1926, 55
	13 November 1926	Montréal	18 (+10 =7 -1)	La Presse, 20 November 1926, 58
Frank J. Marshall	12 January 1928	Montréal (Harmonia club)	22 (+13 =8 -1)	La Presse, 14 January 1928, 45
Frank J. Marshall	14 January 1928	Montréal (National club)	36 (+29 =4 -3)	Globe and Mail, 17 January 1928, 7
Sir George Thomas	19 November 1930	Winnipeg	30 (+19 =5 -6)
Frank J. Marshall	January 1932	Toronto	20 (+13 =5 -2)
Alexander A. Alekhine	14 November 1932	Toronto	42 inc. 2 blind (+35 =3 -4)
Alexander A. Alekhine	26 November 1932	Winnipeg	46 (+38 =1 -7)
Isaac Kashdan	27 May 1933	Toronto	28 (+21 =5 -2)	Chess Review, June 1933, 5
	29 May 1933	Montréal (Sun Life Building)	64 (+49 =9 -6)	La Presse, 30 May 1933, 19
		Montréal	48 (+32 =10 -6) (same event?)	Chess Review, June 1933, 5
Frank J. Marshall	18 November 1933	Toronto	34 (+26 =7 -1)
Isaac Kashdan	18 February 1934	Montréal (Palestre Nationale)	72 (+58 =9 -5) plus 3 unfinished
		Montréal (Sun Life Club)	73 (+50 =16 -7)
Isaac Kashdan	9-11 March 1934	Winnipeg
Samuel Reshevsky	26 November 1934	Toronto	30 (+25 =5 -0)
Arthur Dake	11 January 1936	Toronto	29 (+27 =2 -0)
Arthur Dake	15 June 1937	Vancouver	21 (+18 =3 -0)	Province, 16 June 1937
George Koltanowski	18 September 1938	Montréal	19 blindfold (+15 =4 -0)
George Koltanowski	24 September 1938	Toronto	16 blindfold (+10 =4 -2)
Israel A. Horowitz	4 March 1939	Montréal (Sun Life CC)	61 (+55 =5 -1)	La patrie, 4 March 1939, 22; 11 March 1939, 53
Reuben Fine	28 February 1940	Winnipeg	31 inc. 2 blind (+31 =0 -0)
	2 March 1940	Montréal	16 inc. 1 blind (+16 =0 -0)
	4 March 1940	Ottawa	22 inc. 1 blind (+22 =0 -0)
Mona May Karff	April 1940	Winnipeg	6 (+6 =0 -0)
Reuben Fine	27 September 1940	Winnipeg	32 inc. 2 blind (+29 =2 -1)
Israel A. Horowitz	2 March 1942	Toronto	21 (+19 =1 -1)
Gisela Gresser	25 April 1945	Quebec City (City Hall)	26 (+14 =6 -6)	L'Action catholique, 26 April 1945, 10
	28 April 1945	Montréal (CC)	18 (+12 =5 -1)	La patrie, 1 May 1945, 20
Israel A. Horowitz	4 February 1946	Vancouver	39 (+36 =3 -0)	7 hours
George Koltanowski	10 October 1946	Vancouver	8 blindfold (+3 =3 -2)	5 hours
George Koltanowski	1947
Yanofsky/Wade tandem	February 1947	Montréal	28 (+26 =0 -2)
			27 (+25 =2 -0)
Robert Wade	1 July 1947	Arvida	20 (+19 =? -?)	Le lingot du Saguenay, 11 July 1947, 9
Robert Wade	9 October 1947	Vancouver	30 (+19 =5 -6)	4 hours
Robert Wade	10 October 1947	Victoria	24 (+21 =0 -3)
Max Euwe	4 January 1949	Montréal YMCA	42 (+35 =4 -3)
	12 January 1949	Toronto	67 (+48 =13 -6) or 61 (+48 =7 -6)
	13 January 1949		52 (+43 =6 -3)
	17 January 1949	Vancouver	50 (+43 =4 -3)	5 hours
George Koltanowski	14 February 1949	Vancouver
Lodewijk Prins	12 December 1951	Montréal	18 (+15 =0 -3)
	13 December 1951		2 consultation games, +2
	12 December 1951	Québec City	22 (+16 =4 -2)
	December 1951	Montréal	game vs. M. Fox, -1
	16 December 1951		20 (+15 =3 -2)
	December 1951		10 clock (+6 =0 -4)
Arturo Pomar	2 June 1952	Québec City	21 (+16 =4 -1)	possibly 5 more boards, +5
	4 June 1952	Montréal	27 (+16 =9 -2)
	8 June 1952		10 clock (+6 =1 -3)
	9 June 1952		game vs. J.N. Williams, +1
	11 June 1952		9 (+8 =1 -0)
	12 June 1952	Ottawa	game vs. Bohatirchuk, =1
	June 1952	Saskatoon	13 (+12 =0 -1)
	June 1952	Edmonton	33 (+31 =2 -0)
	June 1952	Calgary	20 (+19 =0 -1)
	30 June 1952	Winnipeg	7 clock (+6 =0 -1)
Herman Steiner	20 August 1952	Vancouver	30 (+26 =4 -0)	5.5 hours
George Koltanowski	19 January 1953	Vancouver	12 blindfold (+9 =3 -0)	5.5 hours
Samuel Reshevsky	10 May 1953	Montréal	43 (+35 =4 -4)
			10 clock (+9 =0 -1) (or +8 =2)
Samuel Reshevsky	8 February 1954	Vancouver	37 (+34 =3 -0)
	February 1954	Calgary	34 (+33 =1 -0)
	13 February 1954	Winnipeg	33 (+31 =2 -0)
	February 1954	Toronto	38 (+35 =3 -1)
	2 March 1954	Québec City	29 (+29 =0 -0)	3.25 hours
Igor Bondarevsky	29 June 1954	Ottawa	25 (+25 =0 -0)
Alexander Kotov			3 (+3 =0 -0)
Igor Bondarevsky	2 July 1954	Winnipeg	34 (+32 =2 -0)
Alexander Kotov			game vs. Yanofsky, +1
Igor Bondarevsky	5 July 1954	Toronto	game vs. Anderson, -1
Alexander Kotov			game vs. Vaitonis, +1
Igor Bondarevsky	6 July 1954		28 (+23 =5 -0)
Alexander Kotov			28 (+25 =1 -2)
Igor Bondarevsky	7 July 1954	Montréal	25 (+21 =4 -0)
Alexander Kotov			5 clock (+5 =0 -0)
George Koltanowski	23 February 1955	Vancouver	12 blindfold (+7 =3 -2)
	24 February 1955		6 clock (+3 =1 -2)
Samuel Reshevsky	13 February 1956	Vancouver	39 (+33 =5 -1)	4.5 hours
	14 February 1956	Victoria	40 (+31 =9 -0)	3 hours
	18 February 1956	Winnipeg	41 (+36 =3 -2)
Robert J. Fischer	5 September 1956	Montréal	19 (+18 =1 -0)	Fischer was 13 years old
Samuel Reshevsky	9 March 1957	Winnipeg	41 (+36 =2 -3)
George Koltanowski	April 1957	Montréal	58 (+55 =2 -1)	2 simuls
			2 blindfold games, +1 =1	10 seconds a move
Arthur Bisguier	31 July 1962	Vancouver	12 clock (+11 =1 -0)
Petar Trifunovic	January 1963	Montréal	? (+? =1 -?)
Svetozar Gligoric	August 1963	Montréal	22 (+15 =5 -2)
Robert J. Fischer	23 February 1964	Montréal	56 (+48 =3 -5)
	24 February 1964		10 clock (+10 =0 -0)
	25 February 1964	Québec City	48 (+48 =0 -0)
	27 February 1964	Toronto	50 (+40 =6 -4)
Cuban team, 5 players	April 1964	Montréal	2-game match, 7-3
Samuel Reshevsky	22 March 1965	Toronto	40
Larry Evans	12 January 1966	Toronto, Hart House	30 (+23 =4 -3)	Globe & Mail, 13 January 1966, 5
Arthur Bisguier	13 July 1966	Vancouver
Paul Keres	4 May 1967	Montréal	12 clock (+10 =2 -0)
	May 1967		19 (+17 =1 -1)
			32 (+20 =6 -6)
Nona Gaprindashvili	12 October 1967	Montréal	25 (+23 =1 -1)
	14 October 1967		23 (+18 =1 -4)
Paul Keres	14 October 1967	Nanaimo	23 (+22 =1 -0)
Boris Spassky			10 clock (+10 =0 -0)
Paul Keres	15 October 1967	Vancouver	23 (+17 =2 -4)
Boris Spassky			23 (+22 =1 -0)
Laszlo Szabo	15 October 1967	Winnipeg	40 (+37 =1 -2)
Paul Keres	17 October 1967	New Westminster	46 (+45 =1 -0)
Boris Spassky		North Vancouver	47 (+45 =2 -0)
Paul Keres	21 October 1967	Toronto	30 (+26 =2 -2)
Boris Spassky			40 (+29 =9 -2)
Paul Keres	26 October 1967	Quebec (l’Eglise Saint-Dominique)	32 (+32 =0 -0)	Le soleil, 28 October 1967, 47
Paul Keres	28 October 1967	Montréal (McGill)	32 (+23 =6 -3)
Boris Spassky		Montréal (Lakeshore CC)	25 (+24 =1 -0)
Paul Keres	29? October 1967	Montréal (Alcan CC)	43 (+31 =7 -5)	Over five hours
Boris Spassky	29 October 1967	Montréal (NDG Community Centre)	36 (+29 =7 -0 or +27 =9 -0)
	30 October 1967	Montréal (Metropolitan CC)	10 clock (+6 =3 -1)
Bent Larsen	25 September 1968	Montréal (McGill University)	47 (+36 =7 -4)	Montreal Gazette, 21 September 1968, 48
Bent Larsen	26 September 1968	Quebec (Boulevard Saint-Cyrille YMCA)	47 (+35 =1 -1)	L'Action: quotidien catholique, 28 September 1968, 19
Walter Browne	October 1970	Toronto (Hart House CC)	25 (+27 =0 -0)	Chess Canada, November 1970, 7
Boris Spassky	8 September 1971	Montréal	25 (+24 =1 -0)
Paul Keres	29 April 1975	Montréal	9 clock (+4 =2 -3)
	30 April 1975		33 (+30 =3 -0)
	3 May 1975	Kingston	36 (+33 =1 -2)
	4 May 1975	Ottawa	30 (+28 =1 -1)
	May 1975	Toronto	6 clock (+4 =1 -1)
	7?/12? May 1975
	11? May 1975	Hamilton	28 (+21 =4 -3)
Tonu Oim	January 1976	Montréal	14 (+11 =1 -2)
Nana Alexandria	July 1976	Montréal	29 (+24 =4 -1)
Walter Browne	17 July 1977	Montréal	33 (+28 =3 -2)	La Presse, 23 July 1977, E12
Mikhail Botvinnik	11 August 1977	Toronto	20 (+12 =7 -1)
	14 August 1977	Montréal	20 (+14 =6 -0)
Jan Timman	1977	Burlington	33 (+31 =0 -2)
Gyula Sax	30 July 1978	Montréal (Cegep du Vieux Montreal)	28 (+26 =0 -2)	Le Soleil, 12 August 1978
Boris Spassky	8 May 1979	Montréal	25 (+22 =3 -0)
Lajos Portisch	8 May 1979	Montréal		Café En Passant
	9 May 1979	Valleyfield
Anatoly Karpov	9 May 1979	Toronto	20 (+17 =2 -1)	Loss to Nickoloff
Boris Spassky	9 May 1979	Toronto	18 (+17 =1 -0 or +16 =2 -0)
	10 May 1979		17 (+14 =3 -0)
Anatoly Karpov	11 May 1979	Montréal	against women; 20 (+18 =2 -0)	La Presse, 12 May 1979, H18
Walter Browne	28 June 1979	Montréal		Gazette, 29 June 1979
Larry Christiansen	3 February 1980	Vancouver	10 blindfold (+9 =0 -1)
	4 February 1980		26 (+20 =3 -3)	3.5 hours
Anthony Miles	3 August 1981	Vancouver	30 (+21 =7 -2)
Anthony Miles	25 October 1981	Montréal	20 (+17 =2 -1)
	28 October 1981	Ottawa (Chimo Inn)	29 (+28 =0 -1)	Ottawa Citizen, 7 November 1981, 27
	1 November 1981	Scarborough (Chess Club)	17 (+13 =3 -1)	Ontario Chess News, January 1982, 7
			12 clock 1 hour (+8 =3 -3)
Boris Spassky	1982	Mississauga
Nigel Short	30 July 1982	Québec City	20 (+18 =2 -0)	Le soleil, 7 August 1982, F-8
Michael Stean	31 July 1982	Montréal
Eva Karakas	29 May 1983	Montréal
Pia Cramling	June 1984	Hamilton	20 (+19 =1 -0)
	June 1984	Scarborough	25 (+22 =1 -2)
	June 1984	Guelph	20 (+19 =1 -0)
	June 1984	Kitchener	17 (+13 =3 -1)
	18 June 1984	Ottawa	20 (+18 =1 -1)
Ljubomir Ljubojevic	13 August 1984	Montréal	12 clock
Kiril Georgiev	25 August 1985	Ottawa	18 (+18, =0 -0)	En Passant #76 (December 1985), 53
Susan Polgar	10 April 1986	Montréal	games vs. Seirawan, +1 =5 -5	11 clock simul?
Sophia Polgar			25	also blindfold blitz
Judith Polgar			25	also blindfold blitz
Boris Spassky	25 January 1988	Saint John	20 (+17 =3 -0)
John Nunn	1 February 1988		20 (+18 =1 -1)
Larry Evans	10 February 1988		15 (+14 =1 -0)
Mikhail Tal	15 February 1988		20
Gary Kasparov	19 February 1988		20
Boris Spassky	2 October 1995	Ottawa	24 (+20 =3 -1)
	4 October 1995	Pickering	24 (+20 =4 -0)	Pickering News Advertiser, 6 October 1995, 15
	5 October 1995	Toronto
	6 October 1995	Guelph
	7 October 1995	London
Jesus Nogueiras	9 July 1998	Ottawa	25?	RA Centre
Vladimir Epishin	21 May 2000	Vancouver	8 Clock, one hour each	one hour each
Jaan Ehlvest	22 May 2000	Vancouver	9 Clock, 30 minutes each
Igor Novikov	11 July 2000	Edmonton (Canadian Open)	20 (+20 =0 -0)	Alberta Chess Report, June 2000, 10 En Passant 163, 34
Peter Wells	11 July 2000	Edmonton (Canadian Open)	20	Alberta Chess Report, June 2000, 10 En Passant 163, 34
Leonid Yudasin	17 May 2001	Toronto
Vitomir Arapovic	3 June 2004	Vancouver	10 (+9 =1 -0)
Pia Cramling	4 July 2004	Vancouver	28 (+24 =1 -3)	4 hours
Juan Bellon Lopez	4 July 2004	Vancouver	18 (+14 =2 -2)
Mark Tseitlin	15 July 2004	Kapuskasing	12 (+11 =0 -1)
Viktor Korchnoi	25 July 2004	Montréal	30 (+25 =5 -0)
Victor Bologan	13 July 2005	Edmonton	17 (+16 =1 -0)
Svetlana Matveeva	August 2005	Winnipeg	23 (+21 =2 -0)
Irina Krush	10 June 2006	Vancouver	23 (+20 =1 -2)
Gary Kasparov	18 June 2007	Toronto	20 (+20 =0 -0)
Susan Polgar	3 July 2007	Ottawa
Emil Sutovsky	12 October 2007	Toronto
Anatoly Karpov	13 October 2007	Toronto
Hikaru Nakamura	12 May 2008	Richmond	25 (+25 =0 -0)
Surya Sekhar Ganguly	29 July 2008	Edmonton	12 (+12 =0 -0)	Alberta Chess Report, September 2011, 4
Evgeny Bareev	18 June 2009	Toronto	24 (+19 =3 -2)
Michael Adams	12 July 2009	Edmonton	26 (+25 =1 -0)	Alberta Chess Report, August 2009, 4
Ni Hua	July 2009	Edmonton	15 (+13 =2 -0)	Alberta Chess Report, August 2009, 4
Hikaru Nakamura	20 July 2009	Victoria	40 (+37 =2 -1)
Victor Mikhalevski	16 December 2009	Edmonton	10 clock (+10 =0 -0)	Alberta Chess Report, February 2010, 3
Alexei Shirov	11 February 2010	Ottawa	36 (+25 =9 -2)
Alexei Shirov	18 February 2010	Scarborough	25 (+17 =6 -2)
Eugene Torre	18 May 2010	Calgary CC	17 (+13 =3 -1)	Canadian Chess News, May 2010, 58-61
Nigel Short	18 November 2010	Ottawa (RA Club)	29 (+23 =6 -0)
Alexei Shirov	3 February 2011	Ottawa (RA Club)	33 (+27 =5 -1)
Wesley So	19 March 2011	Scarborough (Manila CC)	13 (+10 =2 -1)	Canadian Chess News, March 2011, 43-44
Ben Finegold	10 July 2011	Toronto (Canadian Open)	6 blindfold (+5 =1 -0)	Canadian Chess
John Fedorowicz	13 July 2011	Toronto (Canadian Open)	5 (+2 =3 -0)	Canadian Chess
Alexander Shabalov	24 July 2011	Edmonton	15 clock (+13 =0 -2)	Alberta Chess Report, October 2011, 3
Alex Yermolinsky	5 August 2011	Winnipeg	32 (+29 =3 -0)
Nigel Short	15 September 2011	Ottawa (RA Club)	27 (+24 =1 -2)
Nigel Short	19 September 2011	Toronto (Annex CC)	32 (+28 =3 -1)
Alexei Shirov	23 February 2012	Ottawa (RA Club)	20 (+19 =1 -0)
Alexei Shirov	24 February 2012	Gatineau	19 (+18 =0 -1)
Alexei Shirov	27 February 2012	Toronto (Annex CC)	27 (+26 =1 -0)
Nigel Short	21 June 2012	Ottawa (RA Club)	20 (+19 =1 -0)
Hikaru Nakamura	12 July 2012	Victoria	20 (+19 =1 -0)
Reynaldo Vera	19 July 2012	Ottawa (RA Club)	10 clock (+7 =3 -0)
Lazaro Bruzon	22 June 2013	Edmonton	21 (+21 =0 -0)	Alberta Chess Report, August 2013, 25
Elshan Moradiabadi	8 July 2013	Toronto (Annex CC)	13 (+11 =2 -0)
Elshan Moradiabadi	17 July 2014	Ottawa (RA Club)
Robin van Kampen	19 April 2015	Ottawa (RA Club)	17 (+15 =1 -1)
Pentala Harikrishna	19 June 2015	Edmonton
Gergely Szabo	29 June 2016	Mississauga
Carla Heredia Serrano	19 June 2017	Edmonton	15 (+14 =0 -1)	Alberta Chess Report, July 2017, 16
Aryan Chopra	7 July 2017	Sault Ste Marie
Timur Gareyev	31 July 2017	Calgary	10 blindfold (+8 =2 -0)	Alberta Chess Report, October 2017, 10
Alexander Cherniaev	14 July 2019	Regina
Alexei Shirov	24 July 2023	Calgary	20 (+18 =2 -0)
Abhijeet Gupta	25 July 2023	Calgary	24 (+22 =2 -0)