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weekender april 12 1986 p7 unionville man wins chess tourney by steve houston staff reporter unionville chess champion ian findlay likes to compare himself to golf great jack nicklaus in his style of play on the board if he nicklaus gets a bogey he comes back and birdies the next two holes said the 26-year- old normandale rd resident and applying the previous anal ogy to chess thats exactly what mr findlay did last week at the new york open after losing what should have been an easy sixth match he buckled down and won his seventh and eighth matches this allowed him and millikens vinny puri to split the first and second prize money of s10500 anyone in claremont a picknicker a community picnic shelter may soon be erected in claremonfs neighborhood park at a cost of about s2000 marion peddie president of the claremont and district commun ity association said her group is supporting the project with assist ance from the hamlets service organizations ratepayer lorne almack has donated a one acre parcel of land to house the new structure near the parks existing ice pad according to mrs peddie the town of pickering has also purch ased a new set of playground equipment that s slated for the ex panded claremont site further details will be discus sed at the associations next general meeting on tuesday april 22 it begins at 8 pm in the masonic hall mrs peddie hopes a better crosssection of people will attend that session to provide in put on the shelter proposal the project is to be funded en tirely by public donations she said american both players won seven of eight matches unofficially ranked 10th in canada mr findlay is a fide master and found himself facing vinny puri in the sixth match at the open though 18yearold puri is a junior player he beat mr findlay taking his own half point lead of all my games i had played at the open i probably took that one the least serious said mr findlay vinny slowly outplayed me later on i was kicking my self held at the new york penta in manhattan the tournament was a best of eight series following mr findlay s loss to vinny he went on to face yugoslav emigre zoran gaechuk and won then faced american champ chris chase in the eighth and succeeded i felt more confident going into the final game said mr find lay i felt i owed it to myself to play for a win ian findlay began playing chess at seven years of age with his father in junior high school he became more involved in the game and vowed to beat the schools top player then i started reading chess books and i went- to the toronto chess club he recalled even tually i began to get better and better by g rade 8 1 could hold my own against him and by grade 9 i was much better he subsequent ly stopped playing that early streak of determina tion has stayed with him and now pays off in the toughest of battles he plans to continue working on his game and improve his cana dian rank the next major tourna ment he enters is the canadian closed an invititational competi tion the winner of that repre sents canada in the next world tournament the final goal is rep resenting canada in the olym pics the new york open really en couraged me and ill play in win nipeg canadian closed in july he said even for the best play ers the new york open would have been a good pay day for them one move at a time unionville resident ian find lay 26 studies the board before making his next move the set up shown is the winning one against american chris chase that captured him a first place draw at the recent new york open in manhat tan he and milliken resident vinny puri split the first and second prize purse and brought home 5250 each for their efforts markham office ransacked in breakin thieves escaped with 300 dur ing a recent theft at gibbs natha niel canada ltd on riviera dr in markham york regional police said the theft took place between march 31 at 630 pm and april 1 at 8 pm entry was gained through an un locked door leading to the ware house the office area was ransacked 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