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^[1]
1963, 1978, and 2001 Canadian Chess Championship, placing 6th, 8th, and 17th, respectively^[2]
1969 Winner, Ontario Open^[3]
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^[4]
1974 Placed 7th in the Pan American Chess Championship in Winnipeg^[5]
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^[6]^[7]
1977 Winner, Manitoba Championship^[8]
1999 Winner, Manitoba Open^[9]
2000 Captain and coach of the Canadian team at the World Youth Championship, Oropesa del Mar, Spain^[10]^[11]

An economics professor, Lipnowski is a faculty member of the University of Manitoba.^[12]

Biography

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