Daniel Yanofsky

Daniel Abraham Yanofsky ( born March 26, 1925 in Brody / Poland (Galicia ); † March 5, 2000 in Winnipeg ) was a Canadian chess player.

Daniel Yanofsky was eight months old when his parents emigrated with him to Canada.

As an 8- year old, he learned to play chess and soon revealed himself as a child prodigy. At age 11, he was already in Winnipeg simultaneous exhibitions, as a 14- year-old he played for Canada at the 1939 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires on 2nd board, where he scored a phenomenal result of 85 % ( 13.5 / 16). The former world champion Alexander Alekhine, who took part in this tournament, Yanofsky said a bright chess future ahead. Overall, Yanofsky took for Canada from 1939 to the Chess Olympiad 1980 in Valletta on 11 Chess Olympiads. 1939 Canada ranked 2nd in the final group B.

But all Vorschusslorbeeren challenged the young man not to - Daniel Yanofsky opted for a solid middle-class professional and was a lawyer. Chess he ran just yet in leisure hours, what it certainly did not stop to be eight times champion of Canada to defeat future world champion Mikhail Botvinnik in the Groningen International Tournament in 1946, 1942 winner to be at the U.S. open championships and finally in 1964, the first Canadian ever, the Grandmaster title awarded by the world Chess Federation to get.

His best historical Elo rating of 2618, he reached in December 1946.

Daniel Yanofsky died, 74 years old, in March 2000 in a hospital in Winnipeg with cancer.