Nicholas Menalaus MacLeod (8 February 1870, Quebec

Quebec

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 – 27 September 1965, Spokane, Washington

Spokane, Washington

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) was a Scottish–Canadian chess

Chess

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 master.

He took 6th at Ottawa 1881, tied for 3rd-9th at Quebec 1881/82, took 8th at Glasgow 1884, and finished 5th at Glasgow 1886 (the 3rd Scottish Chess Championship

Scottish Chess Championship

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).

MacLeod won the Canadian Chess Championship

Canadian Chess Championship

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 in 1886 and 1888, and shared 1st but lost a play-off match for the title in 1887. He finished last out of 20 players at New York 1889 (the 6th American Chess Congress

American Chess Congress

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, won by Max Weiss

Max Weiss

Miksa Weisz was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary.Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects....

 and Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Chigorin

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, losing a world-record

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 31 games while winning 6 and drawing 1. He finished 2nd at Quebec 1890.

He was the only player to beat Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years...

 in an 18-board simultaneous exhibition

Simultaneous exhibition

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 at Quebec on November 26, 1892. Lasker won 15, drew 2, and lost 1, to MacLeod. It may have been Lasker's worst loss, as he was two queens down.

He was Minnesota Champion in 1899, and won the second Western Chess Association Tournament (later called the U.S. Open Chess Championship

U.S. Open Chess Championship

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) at Excelsior 1901.

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