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Kevin Spraggett is a Canadian chess grandmaster and author. He was born on 10 November 1954 in Montreal, Canada. He is the first Canadian to become a grandmaster in chess. He has won the Canadian Chess Championship four times and has represented Canada in several international tournaments. Spraggett began playing chess at the age of nine and won the Canadian Junior Championship in 1972. He was awarded the title of International Master in 1975 and the title of Grandmaster in 1979. He has won the Canadian Chess Championship four times, in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982. Spraggett has represented Canada in several international tournaments, including the World Chess Olympiad in 1978, 1980, and 1982. He has also represented Canada in the World Team Championship in 1985 and the World Cup in 1987. Spraggett has written several books on chess, including The Art of Attack in Chess, The Art of Defense in Chess, and The Art of Chess Strategy. He has also written several articles for chess magazines and websites. As of 2021, Kevin Spraggett's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 10 November, 1954
Birthday 10 November
Birthplace Montreal, Quebec
Nationality Canada

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1984

Spraggett won his first of seven Canadian titles in 1984, which qualified him into the Taxco Interzonal the next year. His fourth-place result at Taxco 1985, where he topped many more famous players, automatically earned the International Grandmaster title, and seeded him to the Candidates event, the first Canadian to achieve this. He came in last at Montpellier Candidates 1985, but qualified again for the next Candidates. In his first-round match at Saint John, 1988, Spraggett defeated world No. 3 Andrei Sokolov in a blitz playoff. He then lost in extra games in the 1989 Candidates' quarterfinal round to Soviet Grand Master Artur Yusupov at Quebec City.

1975

He was awarded the IM title in 1975, following a second-place finish at the Zonal Canadian Chess Championship in Calgary; Peter Biyiasas won. Spraggett raised his game to meet the challenge of the powerful Soviet defector Igor V. Ivanov, who had settled in Montreal in the early 1980s. Those years saw Spraggett attain success in several strong tournaments, with victories in the 1983 World Open, 1984 Commonwealth Championship, 1984 New York Open, and 1985 Commonwealth Championship. He did not play an international-standard grandmaster round-robin tournament until Wijk aan Zee early in 1985, just after his thirtieth birthday, at which time he was the highest-rated IM in the world.

1973

Kevin Spraggett was raised in Montreal, he is one of seven children and began playing chess at age ten. He tied for first in the 1973-74 Junior Canadian Chess Championship, but lost the playoff match to John MacPhail. One of his key early tournament victories came in the 1974 Montreal Championship, where he scored 5½/6. He had reached national master strength by this time, just before his twentieth birthday. He attended McGill University, studying engineering, and was an excellent student; however, he left McGill before completing his degree, in favour of becoming a chess professional. Spraggett spent his early years developing his game in minor Canadian and American Swiss system open events, where the prizes were often low. His younger brother Grant is also a strong player, having earned the FIDE Master (FM) title.

1954

Kevin Spraggett (born 10 November 1954) is a Canadian chess grandmaster. He is the fourth Canadian to earn the grandmaster title, after Abe Yanofsky, Duncan Suttles and Peter Biyiasas. Spraggett is the only Canadian to have qualified for the Candidates' level, having done so in 1985 and 1988. He has won a total of eight Canadian Open Chess Championships, seven Closed Canadian Chess Championships, and has represented Canada eight times in Olympiad play. Spraggett has also written for Canadian chess publications.