Irwin Lipnowski
Irwin Lipnowski (born May 2, 1946) is a Canadian chess FIDE Master. Biography
Lipnowski, who grew up in Winnipeg, was one of Canada's strongest chess players of the 1960s and 1970s. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 1983. His competitive accomplishments include:  

 1960, 1962 Winner, Manitoba Junior Championship and in 1959 shared first with Michael Nozick
 1963, 1978, and 2001 Canadian Chess Championship, placing 6th, 8th, and 17th, respectively
 1969 Winner, Ontario Open
 1971 Played fourth board for Canada at the World Student Team Chess Championship in Mayagüez, scoring +1, =2, -2; the team won the bronze medal
 1974 Placed 7th in the Pan American Chess Championship in Winnipeg
 1976 Played first reserve board ( scoring +1, =4, -1) on the Canadian men's team at the 22nd Chess Olympiad in Haifa; the team's eighth place finish was its best ever
 1977 Winner, Manitoba Championship
 1999 Winner, Manitoba Open
 2000 Captain and coach of the Canadian team at the World Youth Championship, Oropesa del Mar, Spain

An economics professor, Lipnowski is a faculty member of the University of Manitoba. References

External links

Irwin Lipnowski Chessmetrics player profile
Irwin Lipnowski Chessbase profile
Irwin Lipnowski Chess Federation of Canada
Interview with FM Irwin Lipnowski (En Passant, April 2002)
The Jewish Gambit: Celebrating the Legacy of Jews and Chess in Winnipeg (video, 2021) Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada

1946 births
Living people
Canadian chess players
Chess FIDE Masters
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Chess Olympiad competitors
20th-century chess players
 Jewish chess players