The chess games of Bryon Nickoloff

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Bryon Nickoloff

B Nickoloff

Photograph courtesy of Mark Dutton.

Number of games in database: 224
Years covered: 1974 to 2004
Highest rating achieved in database: 2470

Overall record: +88 -58 =75 (56.8%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 3 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

King's Indian (23)
    E92 E91 E95 E94 E73
Nimzo Indian (10)
    E42 E21 E32 E45 E38
Queen's Indian (9)
    E15 E12 E16 E17
Sicilian (8)
    B84 B83 B47 B40 B92
Queen's Gambit Declined (7)
    D39 D30 D35 D38
Queen's Pawn Game (7)
    A41 A40 A46

With the Black pieces:

Sicilian (20)
    B45 B83 B96 B25 B82
Ruy Lopez (13)
    C78 C67 C92 C90 C69
Queen's Pawn Game (11)
    A45 D02 A46 D05 E00
Sicilian Scheveningen (7)
    B83 B82 B80 B81
English, 1 c4 c5 (6)
    A30 A37 A33
Bogo Indian (5)
    E11

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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Nickoloff vs D Ross, 1993 1-0
   E Raaste vs Nickoloff, 1986 0-1
   L Day vs Nickoloff, 1978 1/2-1/2
   Nickoloff vs L Day, 1987 1-0
   Nickoloff vs C Braga, 1978 1-0
   J Berry vs Nickoloff, 1994 0-1
   Y Molchanov vs Nickoloff, 2004 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Canadian Championship (1984)
   Thessaloniki Olympiad (1988)
   Novi Sad Olympiad (1990)
   Dubai Olympiad (1986)
   Moscow Olympiad (1994)
   Elista Olympiad (1998)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   1978 Canadian championship by gauer
   1984 Canadian championship by gauer
   1974 Canadian (open) U-18 championship by gauer

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BRYON NICKOLOFF
(born Jun-23-1956, died Aug-03-2004, 48 years old) Canada

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Bryon Robert Nickoloff was born in 1956 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada & tied 1st-2nd in its city championship with Igor Zugic in 1997, winning it outright the year following & in 1978. He was awarded the IM title in 1981. He represented Canada on 6 Olympiad occasions between 1978-98, including once as team captain, & other times playing as high as 2nd board, accumulating 29.5 points in 57 team games.

In 1995 at Ottawa, Robert Joel Kiviaho woke him up after Nickoloff fell asleep during one of his games of the Canadian Championship. Since Ron Livshits was also leading in the latter rounds, a number of arguments and appeals were submitted in the final rounds before a winner of that tournament could be determined.

References: http://www.olimpbase.org/, http://www.chess.ca/, http://www.fide.com/, http://www.bryonnickoloff.com/, Wikipedia article: Bryon Nickoloff

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. L Day vs B Nickoloff	1-0	30	1974	Toronto League	D60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
2. B Nickoloff vs J Berry	1-0	37	1974	Vancouver Congress A	B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen
3. B Nickoloff vs K Spraggett	1-0	50	1974	Ch. junior du Canada	E73 King's Indian
4. B Nickoloff vs P Nurmi	0-1	29	1974	CAN-ch U18	B89 Sicilian
5. B Nickoloff vs G Morin	1-0	20	1974	CAN-ch U18	D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
6. B Nickoloff vs R Stewart	1-0	49	1974	CAN-ch U18	B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
7. B Nickoloff vs M Campbell	½-½	40	1974	CAN-ch U18	B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen
8. R Wachtel vs B Nickoloff	0-1	41	1975	Toronto ch	C78 Ruy Lopez
9. L Day vs B Nickoloff	½-½	44	1976	Toronto Closed	A00 Uncommon Opening
10. P Nurmi vs B Nickoloff	0-1	56	1976	Toronto ch	C67 Ruy Lopez
11. L Day vs B Nickoloff	1-0	52	1977	Toronto Open	A30 English, Symmetrical
12. B Nickoloff vs Z Vranesic	1-0	28	1977	Toronto Closed Championship	B40 Sicilian
13. L Day vs B Nickoloff	1-0	54	1977	Labour Day Open	A56 Benoni Defense
14. L Day vs B Nickoloff	½-½	22	1977	Winter Open	A14 English
15. L Day vs B Nickoloff	1-0	27	1977	Christmas Open	A71 Benoni, Classical, 8.Bg5
16. L Day vs B Nickoloff	0-1	29	1977	Toronto Closed Championship	A07 King's Indian Attack
17. J Peters vs B Nickoloff	1-0	42	1977	Lone Pine	B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
18. D J Strauss vs B Nickoloff	0-1	38	1977	Lone Pine	B25 Sicilian, Closed
19. B Nickoloff vs Bisguier	0-1	33	1977	Lone Pine	D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
20. B Nickoloff vs Browne	0-1	57	1977	Lone Pine	E12 Queen's Indian
21. Fedorowicz vs B Nickoloff	½-½	73	1977	Lone Pine	B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
22. B Nickoloff vs D Goodman	½-½	48	1977	Lone Pine	B08 Pirc, Classical
23. Dake vs B Nickoloff	½-½	58	1977	Lone Pine	E44 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation, 5.Ne2
24. B Nickoloff vs V McCambridge	½-½	32	1977	Lone Pine	A56 Benoni Defense
25. J Tisdall vs B Nickoloff	1-0	36	1977	Lone Pine	A57 Benko Gambit


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Aug-03-04		Chessical: Date of birth: 1956-06-23 Represented Canada at World Youth Team Championship 1978, and became an IM. Canadian Champion 1995 Canadian Open Champion (1992, 1995) Represented Canada at six Olympiads (1978, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1998) Pan-Am Open Champion 1999

Aug-03-04		IMlday: Bryon died early this morning, peacefully, in his sleep. A heart attack followed successful treatment of Hodgkin's Disease. Sad..

Aug-04-04		Lawrence: <IMlday>, thank you for all that info on the Nickoloff vs Joel Benjamin, 1988 page. How sad and unfair that he died so young.

Aug-07-04		Lawrence: There's a tribute to <Bryon Nikoloff> today at http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

Aug-07-04		ruylopez900: Yes, thanks to chessbase for putting the tribute to Byron up, with several favourite/good games of his including: <Molchanov-Nickoloff>, 2004 Canadian Open (Last game played) <Nickoloff-Spraggett>, 1974 Canadian Junior <Wachtel-Nickoloff>, 1975 Toronto Closed <Watson-Nickoloff>, 1988 Saint John International Open <Nickoloff-Hulak>, 1989 New York Open <Nickoloff-LeSiege>, 1994 (twice) <Shirov-Nickoloff>, 1994 North Bay International Open Thanks for the games.

Mar-09-06		EmperorAtahualpa: Nice haircut. :)

Mar-09-06		Fan of Leko: I played Nickoloff once, back in the 80's, and lucked into a draw (which upset him somewhat). I had no idea he was dead, or had even been ill. I know people who have recovered from Hodgkin's, but have long term effects from the chemo and radiation treatments.

Mar-09-06		EmperorAtahualpa: Oops, only now I notice that he has passed away already. I didn't mean any disrespect in my above kibitz.

Mar-09-06		tamar: <EmperorAtahualpa> You can read some biography, and some tributes at Nickoloff vs J Benjamin, 1988 Sounds like quite a character.

Oct-10-07		refutor: Finished IM Lawrence Day's labour of love "Nick's Best" and I highly recommend it. The games are interesting, the annotations enjoyable and the stories are fabulous! It's a nice biography

Aug-25-08		myschkin: . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryon_... "Bryon Nickoloff Memorial Page" (last updated 10 days after he passed away!) http://www.torontochess.org/nickolo... The tribite <Lawrence> mentioned is well done - have a look. "In 1999 doctors told Bryon Nickoloff that he had cancer and less than six months to live. But the well-known Canadian IM survived for five years, playing strong chess tournaments to the very end. His last game was at the Canadian Open in July, where he defeated his opponent with the black pieces." RIP

Aug-25-08		myschkin: . . . Book: "NICK'S BEST: Selected Games of Bryon Nickoloff" (2007) (Author Lawrence Day, review Jeremy Silman at http://tinyurl.com/5p9oxf)

Jun-23-13		GrahamClayton: A tribute site here: http://www.bryonnickoloff.com/

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