(1954-11-10) 10 November 1954 (age 69) Montreal, Quebec
Title
Grandmaster (1985)
FIDE rating
2440 (June 2024)
Peak rating
2633 (January 2007)
Peak ranking
No. 27 (January 1985)
Kevin Spraggett (born November 10, 1954, in Montreal) is a Canadian chess grandmaster.[1][2] He was the first Canadian-born player and fourth Canadian overall to earn the grandmaster title, after Abe Yanofsky, Duncan Suttles and Peter Biyiasas.
Spraggett is the only Canadian ever to have qualified for the world championship Candidates Tournament, having done so in 1985 and 1988.[3] He has won a total of eight Canadian Open Chess Championships, seven Closed Canadian Chess Championships, and has represented Canada eight times in Olympiad play. Spraggett has also written for Canadian chess publications and published a chess blog.[4]
Spraggett is widely considered to be the strongest Canadian-born player in chess history.[2] His FIDE rating peaked at 2633 in January 2007, at age 52. In the late 1980s, he ranked consistently amongst the top 100 players in the world.
^"Kevin Spraggett". The Canadian Encyclopedia. 8 July 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
^ abDivinsky, Nathan J. (1990). The Batsford Encyclopedia of Chess. Batsford. p. 200. ISBN 9780713462142. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
^"Kevin Spraggett". Chessgames.com. 10 November 2021. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
^"Kevin Spraggett". Chess Federation of Russia. 10 November 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
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champion in the Zonal at Calgary 1975 with 12/15, half a point ahead of KevinSpraggett. This earned him another Interzonal chance at Manila 1976, where he...
(which were held in Saint John, New Brunswick) nominated one player, (Spraggett). Finally, Karpov, the challenger in the previous cycle, was seeded into...
Bordeta in Barcelona edging out Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Emilio Cordova, KevinSpraggett and Samuel Shankland on tiebreak score, after all players scored 8...
Championship at Richmond, British Columbia. He tied for 1st-2nd places with KevinSpraggett with 8.5/11, then won the two-game playoff match 1.5–0.5. Charbonneau...
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for 1st with a score of 7–1. The winners, in tiebreak order, were IM KevinSpraggett, GM Miguel Quinteros, IM Kamran Shirazi, IM Leonid Bass. 1984 – The...
Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union) 2565 ½ ½ - ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1* 10 4 KevinSpraggett (Canada) 2560 ½ 0 ½ - 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 9 5 Jon Speelman (England)...
(Netherlands, 1873–1956) Rudolf Spielmann (Austria, Sweden, 1883–1942) KevinSpraggett (Canada, born 1954) Ana Srebrnič (Slovenia, born 1984) Gideon Ståhlberg...
were KevinSpraggett (Canada) and Murray Chandler (England). The winners of the 1985 London tournament were Praveen Thipsay (India) and KevinSpraggett. The...
Championship in Montreal. He tied for 3rd-4th places, behind only winners KevinSpraggett and Alexandre Lesiège. He won the 2001 Toronto Christmas Open with...
Sokolov (RUS), 2585 Joel Benjamin (USA), 2580 Boris Gulko (USA), 2580 KevinSpraggett (CAN), 2575 Vladimir Epishin (RUS), 2570 Stefan Kindermann (GER)...
ideas. Duncan Suttles vs KevinSpraggett, Canadian Open, Ottawa 1973, Sicilian Defence, Closed Variation (B26), 1–0 Spraggett was one of the best young...
1978–1982, after which he was eclipsed by Grandmasters Igor V. Ivanov and KevinSpraggett. Day survived a bout with cancer in 1975. He served as the non-playing...
1996) 1953 – Les Miles, American football player and coach 1954 – KevinSpraggett, Canadian chess player 1954 – Bob Stanley, American baseball player...
Candidates' matches, he unexpectedly lost his first-round match to KevinSpraggett. In the 1990 Interzonal he scored 6½ out of 13, failing to qualified...
he finished clear second, with 10.5/15, a point behind Grandmaster KevinSpraggett. In the controversy-marred Closed at Ottawa 1995, Hergott tied for...
1984 on 8.5/15, with KevinSpraggett winning. At the Winnipeg (Zonal) 1986, he scored 7/16 to share 8-9th places, with Spraggett and Igor Ivanov winning...
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