(1925-03-25)March 25, 1925 Brody, Poland (now western Ukraine)
Died
March 5, 2000(2000-03-05) (aged 74) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Title
Grandmaster International Arbiter
Peak rating
2460 (July 1971)
Daniel Abraham (Abe) Yanofsky (March 25, 1925 – March 5, 2000) was a Canadian chess player, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, and politician. An eight-time Canadian chess champion, Yanofsky was Canada's first grandmaster and the first grandmaster of the British Commonwealth.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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