Nicholas MacLeod, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British-Canadian chess player
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Place of Birth: Quebec, Canada
About Nicholas MacLeod
- Nicholas Menalaus MacLeod (8 February 1870, Quebec – 27 September 1965, Spokane, Washington) was a Scottish–Canadian chess master.
- He took 6th at Ottawa 1881, tied for 3rd-9th at Quebec 1881/82, took 8th at Glasgow 1884, and finished 5th at Glasgow 1886 (the 3rd Scottish Chess Championship).MacLeod won the Canadian Chess Championship in 1886 and 1888, and shared 1st but lost a play-off match for the title in 1887.
- He finished last out of 20 players at New York 1889 (the 6th American Chess Congress, won by Max Weiss and Mikhail Chigorin, losing a world-record 31 games while winning 6 and drawing 1.
- He finished 2nd at Quebec 1890.He was the only player to beat Emanuel Lasker in an 18-board simultaneous exhibition at Quebec on November 26, 1892.
- Lasker won 15, drew 2, and lost 1, to MacLeod.
- It may have been Lasker's worst loss, as he was two queens down. He was Minnesota Champion in 1899, and won the second Western Chess Association Tournament (later called the U.S.
- Open Chess Championship) at Excelsior 1901.
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