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    Kevin Spraggett (born November 10, 1954, in Montreal) is a Canadian chess grandmaster. He was the first Canadian-born player and fourth Canadian overall...
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  • Spraggett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Allen Spraggett (1932–2022), Canadian writer and broadcaster Kevin Spraggett (born 1954)...
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  • Ivanov 1984 Kevin Spraggett 1985 Raymond Stone*, Igor V. Ivanov 1986 Igor V. Ivanov, Kevin Spraggett 1987 Igor V. Ivanov 1989 Kevin Spraggett 1991 Lawrence...
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    ISBN 1-85744-330-6. Kevin Spraggett. "Part 1: Alekhine's death". BlogSpot.com. Archived from the original on October 9, 2009. Kevin Spraggett. "Part 2: Alekhine's...
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    and in 2003 (Jodhpur, India) In 1985, Thipsay tied for first with Kevin Spraggett in the Commonwealth Chess Championship. In 1998, he tied for 4-7th...
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    champion in the Zonal at Calgary 1975 with 12/15, half a point ahead of Kevin Spraggett. This earned him another Interzonal chance at Manila 1976, where he...
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    (which were held in Saint John, New Brunswick) nominated one player, (Spraggett). Finally, Karpov, the challenger in the previous cycle, was seeded into...
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    Commonwealth Championship at Hong Kong 1984. The event was won by Kevin Spraggett and Murray Chandler. He is the author of Dubai Olympiad 1986 and a...
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  • for 1st with a score of 7–1. The winners, in tiebreak order, were IM Kevin Spraggett, GM Miguel Quinteros, IM Kamran Shirazi, IM Leonid Bass. 1984 – The...
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  • Viktor Bologan, Artur Yusupov, Bu Xiangzhi, Alexander Moiseenko, Kevin Spraggett, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Larry Evans, Pal Benko, William Lombardy, Gyula...
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    Georgiev (BUL), 2595  Valery Salov (URS), 2595  Jaan Ehlvest (URS), 2585  Kevin Spraggett (CAN), 2580  Alexander Chernin (URS), 2560  Jesús Nogueiras (CUB),...
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     Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union) 2565 ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1* 10 4  Kevin Spraggett (Canada) 2560 ½ 0 ½ - 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 9 5  Jon Speelman (England)...
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  • Quesada Perez Alexander Romanovsky and Peter Romanovsky Kevin Spraggett and Grant Spraggett Endre Steiner and Lajos Steiner Rasmus Svane and Frederik...
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  • in print, in chess videos, and in chess blogs. In particular, GM Kevin Spraggett prefaced his game analysis by observing that "Esserman had already...
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    Bordeta in Barcelona edging out Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Emilio Cordova, Kevin Spraggett and Samuel Shankland on tiebreak score, after all players scored 8...
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  • were Kevin Spraggett (Canada) and Murray Chandler (England). The winners of the 1985 London tournament were Praveen Thipsay (India) and Kevin Spraggett. The...
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  • Championship at Richmond, British Columbia. He tied for 1st-2nd places with Kevin Spraggett with 8.5/11, then won the two-game playoff match 1.5–0.5. Charbonneau...
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    Sokolov (RUS), 2585  Joel Benjamin (USA), 2580  Boris Gulko (USA), 2580  Kevin Spraggett (CAN), 2575  Vladimir Epishin (RUS), 2570  Stefan Kindermann (GER)...
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  • (Netherlands, 1873–1956) Rudolf Spielmann (Austria, Sweden, 1883–1942) Kevin Spraggett (Canada, born 1954) Ana Srebrnič (Slovenia, born 1984) Gideon Ståhlberg...
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    Čabrilo (Yugoslavia) 2485 −48 −2 =59 +60 +56 =39 =28 =42 −22 +49 =50 =30 −26 6 42  GM Kevin Spraggett (Canada) 2540 =18 −1 =40 +64 −19 =35 =33 =41 +51 =26 −20 =38 =46 6...
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  • undefeated 7/8, to finish half a point ahead of Kevin Spraggett, whom he defeated in their head-to-head game. Spraggett later said that Ivanov was playing some...
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  • 1978–1982, after which he was eclipsed by Grandmasters Igor V. Ivanov and Kevin Spraggett. Day survived a bout with cancer in 1975. He served as the non-playing...
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  • he finished clear second, with 10.5/15, a point behind Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett. In the controversy-marred Closed at Ottawa 1995, Hergott tied for...
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    Invitational with 6/8, and drew an exhibition match 2-2 with Kevin Spraggett that year. Hébert faced Spraggett again in a playoff match in 1982, after the two had...
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  • ideas. Duncan Suttles vs Kevin Spraggett, Canadian Open, Ottawa 1973, Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation (B26), 1–0 Spraggett was one of the best young...
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    seven rounds to finish with a score of 8/9 for a performance of 2876. Kevin Spraggett was second at 7/9. He also won a category 12 invitational tournament...
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  • 1996) 1953 – Les Miles, American football player and coach 1954 – Kevin Spraggett, Canadian chess player 1954 – Bob Stanley, American baseball player...
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    Championship in Montreal. He tied for 3rd-4th places, behind only winners Kevin Spraggett and Alexandre Lesiège. He won the 2001 Toronto Christmas Open with...
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    Fridman (LAT), 2529  Christian Bauer (FRA), 2528  Pablo Ricardi (ARG), 2527  Kevin Spraggett (CAN), 2523  Stefan Đurić (YUG), 2517  Friso Nijboer (NED), 2515  Peter...
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  • the 1992 Canadian Chess Championship at Kingston, Ontario, defeating Kevin Spraggett in the key game. This made him the second-youngest Canadian champion...
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