Nathan Divinsky
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Nathan Joseph Divinsky (born October 29, 1925) is a Canadian mathematician, chess master, and chess author, who is also known for being the former husband of the 19th Prime Minister of Canada, Kim Campbell. Divinsky and Campbell were married from 1972 to 1983.
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[edit] Mathematician
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Winnipeg in 1946. He received a Master of Science in 1947 and Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1950 from the University of Chicago.
Divinsky served as a mathematics professor, and also as an assistant dean of science, at the University of British Columbia. He was also featured in many segments relating to mathematics and chess on a Discovery Channel Canada program called @ Discovery Canada, now called Daily Planet.
Divinsky has served on the Vancouver School Board, and as an alderman on Vancouver's city council.
[edit] Chess life
Divinsky tied for 3rd-4th places in the Closed Canadian Chess Championship, Toronto 1945, with 9.5/12, along with John Belson; the joint winners were Daniel Yanofsky and Frank Yerhoff at 10.5/12. In the 1951 Closed Canadian Chess Championship, held at Vancouver, Divinsky scored 6/12 to tie for 5th-7th places. He represented Canada twice at the Chess Olympiads, in 1954 at Amsterdam (second reserve board, 0.5/1), and in 1966 at Havana (second reserve board, 4.5/8). He served for 15 years, from 1959-1974, as editor of the magazine Canadian Chess Chat. He has played an important role in chess organization in Canada since the 1950s. He first became Canada's representative to FIDE (the World Chess Federation), in 1987, is serving again in this post after a break from it, and is a member of the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Rings and Radicals, University of Toronto Press, 1965.
- Around the Chess World in 80 Years.
- The Batsford Encyclopedia of Chess, 1990. ISBN 0-7134-6214-0
- Life maps of the great chess masters, 1994.
- Warriors of the Mind: A Quest for the Supreme Genius of the Chess Board (with Raymond Keene), 1989, 2002. ISBN 0-9513757-2-5
[edit] References
- Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry. Retrieved on February 7, 2006.
