Fedor Parfenovich Bohatirchuk, 1954

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September 09 1954

Times Colonist, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Thursday, September 09, 1954

Former Russian, Now Canadian, New Chess Master
Toronto (CP)—Canada's three-year fight to have Dr. Fedor P. Bohatirchuk named its third international chess master has ended successfully. Russia withdrew its opposition to recognition of the X-ray research expert who fled from Russia to Canada by way of Germany.
Bernard Freedman, president of the Chess Federation of Canada, said today that he had received word from Federation Internationale des Echecs, the world chess body to which he is Canadian representative, that the University of Ottawa anatomy professor's claim had been recognized “on merit.”
Dr. Bohatirchuk, now a Canadian citizen, is representing Canada with Canada's other two international masters Abe Yanofsky of Winnipeg and Paul Vaitonis of Hamilton—at the international chess championships at Amsterdam.

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