Canadian Open History

YearLocation#Winner(s)Score
1st1956Montreal88Larry Evans, William Lombardy8.0/10
2nd1958Winnipeg44Elod Macskasy9.0/10
3rd1960Kitchener40Anthony Saidy8.0/10
4th1962Ottawa47Laszlo Witt9.0/9  
5th1964Scarborough76Pal Benko8.5/10
6th1966Kingston116Larry Evans9.0/10
7th1968Toronto164Bent Larsen10.5/11
8th1970St. John's55Bent Larsen9.5/10
9th1971Vancouver156Boris Spassky, Hans Ree9.0/11
10th1973Ottawa232Duncan Suttles9.0/11
11th1974Montreal636Ljubomir Ljubojevic10.0/11
12th1975Calgary215Leonid Shamkovich9.0/10
13th1976Toronto408Nick de Firmian, Lawrence Day8.5/10
14th1977Fredericton164Jan Green-Krotki8.5/10
15th1978Hamilton185Gyula Sax9.0/11
16th1979Edmonton135Abe Yanofsky8.5/10
17th1980Ottawa212Lawrence Day8.5/10
18th1981Beauport148Igor Ivanov9.5/10
19th1982Vancouver148Gordon Taylor8.5/10
20th1983Toronto330Kevin Spraggett, Bozidar Ivanovic8.0/10
21st1984Ottawa146Igor Ivanov, Dave Ross, Denis Allan, Brett Campbell8.0/10
22nd1985Edmonton91Igor Ivanov, Brian Hartman8.5/10
23rd1986Winnipeg146Artur Yusupov, Viktor Kupreichik8.0/10
24th1987Toronto208Kevin Spraggett8.0/10
25th1988Scarborough201Lawrence Day8.5/10
26th1989Edmonton181Vladimir Tukmakov9.5/10
27th1990Edmundston59Georgi Timoschenko8.5/10
28th1991Windsor120Walter Browne9.0/10
29th1992Scarborough254Alexei Barsov, Bryon Nickoloff8.5/10
30th1993London128Kevin Spraggett8.5/10
31st1994Winnipeg187Vladimir Tukmakov9.0/10
32nd1995Toronto303Kevin Spraggett, Eduardas Rozentalis, Ron Livshits, Bryon Nickoloff, Deen Hergott8.0/10
33rd1996Calgary147Kevin Spraggett9.0/10
34th1997Winnipeg188Julian Hodgson8.5/10
35th1998Ottawa223Dimitry Tyomkin, Michael Oratovsky, Evgeny Prokopchuk, Kevin Spraggett8.0/10
36th1999Richmond204Kevin Spraggett, Georgi Orlov9.5/11
37th2000Edmonton192Jonathan Rowson, Joel Benjamin, Kevin Spraggett8.0/10
38th2001Sackville169Anthony Miles, Larry Christiansen9.0/10
39th2002Montreal326Jean-Marc Degraeve, Pascal Charbonneau, Jean Hébert8.0/10
40th2003Kapuskasing141Alexander Moiseenko8.0/10
41st2004Kapuskasing124Dimitry Tyomkin, Alexander Moiseenko8.0/10
42nd2005Edmonton222Alexei Shirov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Victor Bologan, Mark Bluvshtein, S.R. Chowdhury8.0/10
43rd2006Kitchener198Abhijit Kunte, Walter Arencibia
U2000: John Upper; U1600: Alexandra Botez
7.0/9  
44th2007Ottawa280Xiangzhi Bu8.0/10
45th2008Montreal325Alexander Moiseenko, Victor Mikhalevski, Matthieu Cornette, Eduardas Rozentalis
B: Jean Hébert; C: Omaray M. Shah; D: Jonathan Turcotte; E: Jacques Deroneth
6.5/9  
46th2009Edmonton202Mark Bluvshtein, Edward Porper7.5/9  
47th2010Toronto265Luke McShane8.0/9  
48th2011Toronto277Walter Arencibia, Joel Benjamin, Dejan Bojkov
U2000: John Doknjas, Palmer Jordan, Sam Haziprodromu, Alexander Strugach
U1600: Rodrigo Oliveira
7.0/9  
49th2012Victoria155Eric Hansen
U2000: Darren Bates, Robert North, Paul Leblanc, Yifei Han;
U1600: Kajan Thanabalachandran, Kristijan Gjorgjevik
7.5/9  
50th2013Ottawa178Nigel Short, Eric Hansen7.5/9  
51st2014Montreal402Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, Robin van Kampen, Sergey Tiviakov
B: Jean Hébert; C: Thiago Pinho, Paul Weston;D: Sylvain Dumoulin
E: Julia Tsukerman, Michael Hollander
6.5/9  
52nd2016Windsor125Gergely Antal
U2000: Jafar Faraji; U1600: John Young, Dora Koltai U1200: Kevin Cui
7.5/9  
53rd2017Sault Ste. Marie137Razvan Preotu, Aman Hambleton
U2200: Chike (Jude) Aniunoh; U1800: Joey Orozco; U1400: Kate Jiang
6.5/9  
54th2018Quebec City153Bitan Banerjee, Raymond Kaufman
U2000: William Bremner; U1800: Yun Hong (Kevin) Li;
U1600: David Gauthier, Arnaud Pelletier; U1400: Jessica Qian
7.0/9  
55th2019Regina84Alexander Cherniaev: U1800: Matthew He9.0/9  
56th2022Hamilton235Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, Nikolay Noritsyn7.5/9  
57th2023Calgary183Alexei Shirov; U1600: Jeffrey Liu8.5/10