Lionel Joyner

Lionel Berry Joyner (28 March 1932 – 2001) was a Canadian chess player, Canadian Chess Championship winner (1961), Canadian Open Chess Championship medalist (1964).

Lionel Joyner
CountryCanada
Born(1932-03-28)28 March 1932
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Died2001

Chess career

From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, Lionel Joyner was one of Canada's leading chess players. In 1951, he represented Canada in the first World Junior Chess Championship.[1] In 1956 Lionel Joyner became the chess champion of Montreal, having won all 17 games in the tournament. He won gold (1961) and silver (1965[2]) medal in Canadian Chess Championship. Also Lionel Joyner won bronze medal in Canadian Open Chess Championship in 1964. In 1975, in Vancouver he shared 1st place in Paul Keres Memorial Tournament.

Lionel Joyner played for Canada in the Chess Olympiad:[3]

Also Lionel Joyner played correspondence chess and won the Correspondence Chess Tournament Golden Knights Postal (1961–1962).

After leaving Montreal, he lived in the Alberta province and later in the British Columbia province. Lionel Joyner worked at the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

The British Columbia Chess Federation every year hosts a Joyner Chess Memorial.

References
  1. "OlimpBase :: 1st World Junior Chess Championship, Coventry & Birmingham 1951". www.olimpbase.org.
  2. "OlimpBase :: 58th Canadian Chess championship, Vancouver 1965". www.olimpbase.org.
  3. "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Lionel Joyner". www.olimpbase.org.
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