- Home
- About Us
- Store
- Ratings
- Clubs
- VIPs
- Resources
- News
- Newsfeed
(1913-91)
Born Lithuania
Post-graduate studies at university in England
High school teacher, Lithuania
Arrived Canada 1947
Worked for CN 1948-78
Won Hastings Major (non-masters) tournament 1938-9 (8/9)
Played Lithuania Championship 1945
1st place, Montreal Closed Championship (1950, 1961)
Played Canadian Championship 1959
Quebec Open Champion (1953, 1964, 1969)
Won 1952-3 Golden Knights Postal Tournament in 1959 (preliminary 5.5/6; semi-final 6/6; finals 6/6)
2nd place, Golden Knights Postal Championship 1967 (18/18, but lost supplementary match 1.5/4)
Top Senior (over 50), U.S. Open Championship 1972 (8.5/12)
2nd place, Absolute Correspondence Championship (1983, 1985)
Ignas Zalys considered this one of the best games that he ever played:
Maurice Fox - Ignas Zalys
Montreal Closed Championship, Montreal, Quebec, 1949
Ignas Zalys considered this game, against the future grandmaster, one of his best correspondence games:
Walter Browne - Ignas Zalys
Correspondence, 1963-4
Ignas Zalys called this game, his only win against the future grandmaster, ëinterestingí:
Ignas Zalys - Kevin Spraggett
Saint-Jean Open, Montreal, Quebec, 1973.06.24, Round 3
Contributor: Hugh Brodie
Source (biography, game selection): Personal correspondence of Ignas Zalys, 1989.05.07, 1989.08.08.
Copyright 2011. David Cohen.
Back to Biographies