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    Peter Biyiasas (born November 19, 1950) is a Canadian chess grandmaster. He was Canadian champion in 1972 and 1975, represented Canada with success on...
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    stayed at the home of grandmaster Peter Biyiasas in San Francisco, where, over a period of four months, he defeated Biyiasas seventeen times in a series of...
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  • Daniel Yanofsky 1969 Duncan Suttles *, Zvonko Vranesic 1972 Peter Biyiasas 1975 Peter Biyiasas 1978 Jean Hébert 1981 Igor V. Ivanov 1984 Kevin Spraggett...
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  • 1972, and finished in the middle of a strong field, scoring 8.5/17; Peter Biyiasas won. Berry was of national master strength by this time. He tied for...
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  • Open section (six GMs and five IMs). Eight players scored 7½–1½. IM Peter Biyiasas (who was awarded the GM title later in the year) was first on tiebreak...
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    earn the grandmaster title, after Abe Yanofsky, Duncan Suttles and Peter Biyiasas. Spraggett is the only Canadian ever to have qualified for the world...
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  • annotations. The book has had a great influence on today's top players. Peter Biyiasas became an International Master by studying only two books: Rook Endings...
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    Gheorghiu (Romania) 2530 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ - 1 ½ ½ 1 7½ 15  Peter Biyiasas (Canada) 2395 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 - ½ 1 1 6½ 16-18  Tan Lian...
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  • Abdusattorov and Bakhora Egamberdieva (née Abdusattorova) Peter Biyiasas and Theodore Biyiasas Vladimir Eljanov and Pavel Eljanov Celso Golmayo Zúpide and...
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  • player with PAOK of the Greek Basket League Hercules Kyvelos – boxer Peter Biyiasas – chess grandmaster Alexandre Despatie – diver, Olympic silver medalist...
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  • Klaus Bischoff (Germany, born 1961) Arthur Bisguier (US, 1929–2017) Peter Biyiasas (Greece, Canada, born 1950) Dimitrije Bjelica (Serbia, born 1935) Roy...
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  • 1949 – Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster 1950 – Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player 1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer...
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    chess player. She married chess Grandmaster Peter Biyiasas in 1978 and divorced in 2005. She and Biyiasas have three children: Lauren, Tina, and Theodore...
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    for Seattle's amateur and professional Go and chess players including Peter Biyiasas, Viktors Pupols, and Yasser Seirawan, who wrote of the venue, "Those...
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    Torre (Philippines) 2505 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 - 0 1 1 0 7 17  Peter Biyiasas (Canada) 2460 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 ½ 0 6 18  Ludek Pachman (West...
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  • his best result in 1972, when he shared 2nd place with Lawrence Day; Peter Biyiasas won. Kuprejanov was awarded the FIDE International Master title in 1972...
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  • were earned by Jack Peters, Vitaly Zaltsman, Ken Rogoff (all USA), and Peter Biyiasas (Canada). IM norms were earned by Yasser Seirawan and Tim Taylor (both...
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  • better part of a decade. Other group members from the late 1960s were Peter Biyiasas, Bruce Harper, Jonathan Berry, and Robert Zuk. Suttles' originality...
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    Olympiad victories include wins against IM Lazaros Viantiadis (1968), IM Peter Biyiasas and IM Tüdeviin Üitümen (1974), IM Juan Manuel Bellón López (1976) and...
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  • State Chess Championship, ahead of James Tarjan. In 1974, he tied with Peter Biyiasas for the American Open title. In 1976, he won three International Chess...
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  • place, and at Calgary 1975, he scored 9/15 for a shared 5-7th place; Peter Biyiasas won both events. Amos represented Canada three times at Chess Olympiads...
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    5/15; the winner was Peter Biyiasas. At his next attempt, Hebert won the 1978 Zonal at Toronto with 11/15, just ahead of Biyiasas. For scoring two-thirds...
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    Keres 1 1976 James Tarjan 2 1977 John Watson 3 1978 Robert Zuk 4 1979 Peter Biyiasas John Grefe James McCormick 5 1980 Viktors Pupols 6 1981 John Donaldson...
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  • President and PM, FIDE, 4 February 2024, retrieved 5 February 2024 Doggers, Peter (5 February 2024), Honorary Grandmaster Title Posthumously Awarded To Sultan...
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