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Jonathan Berry (born Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 11, 1953) is a Canadian International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, an International Arbiter, a FIDE Master (FM) over-the-board, and a chess journalist and author. He is the only Canadian to hold international titles for over-the-board chess, correspondence chess, and chess arbiting. ==Chess over the board== Berry represented the University of British Columbia at the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships, Montreal 1969, and graduated from that institution in 1973. Berry had a solid result of tied fourth as a 16-year-old, with 6.5/10, at the 1970 Canadian Open Chess Championship, in St. John's; the event was won by Danish Grandmaster Bent Larsen. He placed third in the 1970 Junior Canadian Chess Championship, held in Toronto, with 5.5/9. Berry played his first Closed Canadian Chess Championship at Toronto 1972, and finished in the middle of a strong field, scoring 8.5/17; the winner was Peter Biyiasas.〔http://www.chessmetrics.com, the Jonathan Berry results file〕 He was of National Master strength by this time. He tied for third place at the 1972 Canadian Junior Championship in London, Ontario, with 6/9. Berry won the 1974 Vancouver City Closed Championship with 7/8, and also won the 1974 Mexican Open Championship at Guadalajara with 7.5/8. In 1975, Berry scored 9/15 at the Canadian Closed / Zonal in Calgary, Alberta, missing the standard for International Master by only one point; Biyiasas repeated as champion.〔http://www.chessmetrics.com, the Jonathan Berry results file〕 Berry scored 7.5/10 in the 1976 Canadian Open Chess Championship in Toronto. Berry represented Canada at the 1977 Pan American Individual Championship at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, placing sixth. He had a below average result of 5.5/15 at the 1978 Canadian Closed / Zonal in Toronto.〔http://www.chessmetrics.com, the Jonathan Berry results file〕 Filling in at the absolute last minute on the Canadian team for the 1982 Lucerne Chess Olympiad, because of a family emergency with one of the selected players, and with no other Master able to answer the call, he made the trans-atlantic trip, played two games on the second reserve board, and drew both of them.〔http://www.olimpbase.org〕 Berry was at around 50 per cent in each of his next four Canadian Championship Zonals: 7/15 at Ottawa (1984); 8/15 at Hamilton, Ontario (1994); 4.5/9 at Brantford, Ontario (1999); and 5.5/11 at Richmond, British Columbia (2002).〔http://www.chessmetrics.com, the Jonathan Berry results file〕 Since returning to Canada's west coast in the mid-1980s, he has been champion of British Columbia three times: in 1994, in 2000 (first equal), and in 2006 (first equal). He was awarded the FIDE Master title by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, in 1984. Berry, by then living in Nanaimo, British Columbia, scored 5.5/9 at the London, England International II in 1997. Berry also plays simultaneous blindfold chess and in 2004 played 12 games, tying the world record for players over the age of 50, scoring +9=2-1. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Berry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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