The CFC Regular Chess Post – November 17/12 – Canadian GM’s.

The Canadian Grandmasters ( past and present ) are ( year of being awarded title in brackets ):

1st GM Abe Yanofsky ( 1964 )
2nd GM Duncan Suttles ( 1973 )
3rd GM Peter Biyiasas ( 1978 )
4th GM Kevin Spraggett ( 1985 )
5th GM Alexandre Lesiège ( 1997 )
6th GM Dmitri Tyomkin ( 2001 )
7th GM Mark Bluvshtein ( 2004 )
8th GM Igor Ivanov ( 2005 )
9th GM Pascal Charbonneau ( 2006 )
10th GM Bator Sambuev ( 2006 )
11th GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon ( 2010 )
12th GM-elect Eric Hansen ( to be awarded in 2012 )

3 other Canadian GM's with other federations are:

GM Joel Lautier – France ( 1990 )
GM Anton Kovalyov – Argentina ( 2008 )
GM Wesley So – Philippines ( 2008 )

Bob Armstrong, CFC Public Relations Coordinator
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