November 19, 1950 (1950-11-19) (age 73) Athens, Greece
Title
Grandmaster (1978)
FIDE rating
2450 (June 2024)
Peak rating
2485 (January 1979)
Peter Biyiasas (born November 19, 1950) is a Canadian chess grandmaster.[1][2][3][4] He was Canadian champion in 1972 and 1975, represented Canada with success on four Olympiad teams, and played in two Interzonals. He moved to the United States in 1979, settling in California. He retired from competitive play in the mid-1980s to work as a computer programmer. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a frequent training partner of Bobby Fischer, who stayed at his home in San Francisco for extended periods.[5]
^Day, Lawrence (2008-07-08). "Peter Biyiasis". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
PeterBiyiasas (born November 19, 1950) is a Canadian chess grandmaster. He was Canadian champion in 1972 and 1975, represented Canada with success on...
earn the grandmaster title, after Abe Yanofsky, Duncan Suttles and PeterBiyiasas. Spraggett is the only Canadian ever to have qualified for the world...
annotations. The book has had a great influence on today's top players. PeterBiyiasas became an International Master by studying only two books: Rook Endings...
Daniel Yanofsky 1969 Duncan Suttles *, Zvonko Vranesic 1972 PeterBiyiasas 1975 PeterBiyiasas 1978 Jean Hébert 1981 Igor V. Ivanov 1984 Kevin Spraggett...
Abdusattorov and Bakhora Egamberdieva (née Abdusattorova) PeterBiyiasas and Theodore Biyiasas Vladimir Eljanov and Pavel Eljanov Celso Golmayo Zúpide and...
Gheorghiu (Romania) 2530 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ - 1 ½ ½ 1 7½ 15 PeterBiyiasas (Canada) 2395 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 - ½ 1 1 6½ 16-18 Tan Lian...
stayed at the home of grandmaster PeterBiyiasas in San Francisco, where, over a period of four months, he defeated Biyiasas seventeen times in a series of...
Klaus Bischoff (Germany, born 1961) Arthur Bisguier (US, 1929–2017) PeterBiyiasas (Greece, Canada, born 1950) Dimitrije Bjelica (Serbia, born 1935) Roy...
Open section (six GMs and five IMs). Eight players scored 7½–1½. IM PeterBiyiasas (who was awarded the GM title later in the year) was first on tiebreak...
1949 – Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster 1950 – PeterBiyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player 1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer...
were earned by Jack Peters, Vitaly Zaltsman, Ken Rogoff (all USA), and PeterBiyiasas (Canada). IM norms were earned by Yasser Seirawan and Tim Taylor (both...
for Seattle's amateur and professional Go and chess players including PeterBiyiasas, Viktors Pupols, and Yasser Seirawan, who wrote of the venue, "Those...
Torre (Philippines) 2505 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 - 0 1 1 0 7 17 PeterBiyiasas (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...
player with PAOK of the Greek Basket League Hercules Kyvelos – boxer PeterBiyiasas – chess grandmaster Alexandre Despatie – diver, Olympic silver medalist...
chess player. She married chess Grandmaster PeterBiyiasas in 1978 and divorced in 2005. She and Biyiasas have three children: Lauren, Tina, and Theodore...
1972, and finished in the middle of a strong field, scoring 8.5/17; PeterBiyiasas won. Berry was of national master strength by this time. He tied for...
better part of a decade. Other group members from the late 1960s were PeterBiyiasas, Bruce Harper, Jonathan Berry, and Robert Zuk. Suttles' originality...
his best result in 1972, when he shared 2nd place with Lawrence Day; PeterBiyiasas won. Kuprejanov was awarded the FIDE International Master title in 1972...
Olympiad victories include wins against IM Lazaros Viantiadis (1968), IM PeterBiyiasas and IM Tüdeviin Üitümen (1974), IM Juan Manuel Bellón López (1976) and...
State Chess Championship, ahead of James Tarjan. In 1974, he tied with PeterBiyiasas for the American Open title. In 1976, he won three International Chess...
place, and at Calgary 1975, he scored 9/15 for a shared 5-7th place; PeterBiyiasas won both events. Amos represented Canada three times at Chess Olympiads...
Keres 1 1976 James Tarjan 2 1977 John Watson 3 1978 Robert Zuk 4 1979 PeterBiyiasas John Grefe James McCormick 5 1980 Viktors Pupols 6 1981 John Donaldson...
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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