John Morrison (chess player)

John Stuart Morrison (7 December 1889 – 1 March 1975) was a Canadian chess Master, who was born and died in Toronto.^[1][2]

He won the Canadian Chess Championship five times (1910, 1913, 1922, 1924, and 1926) and shared first place in 1931 (Maurice Fox won play-off).^[3] He took twelfth place at New York 1913 (José Raúl Capablanca won), took seventh place at New York 1918 (Capablanca won), and tied for 14-15th place at London 1922 (Capablanca won).^[4]

Morrison played at first board (+5 –6 =4) for Canada in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939.^[5]

References

1. ↑ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, p. 291, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6 
2. ↑ Passengers of the Piriápolis
3. ↑ Canadian Chess
4. ↑ Chessmetrics
5. ↑ Olimpbase

Further reading

• American Chess Bulletin, 1914, p. 33
• Toronto Globe and Mail, March 3, 1975, p. 33
• Yanofsky, D. A. (1967), 100 Years of Chess in Canada, p. 20