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Category Archives: Irish championships
Irish Championship 2022
The Irish Championship is in progress in Dublin, and reaches the halfway stage today. A report has been added to the tournament pages here; updates will be added round by round until the conclusion. Numbers are down from the past … Continue reading
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Irish Championship 1951
A report on the 1951 Irish championship has been added to the tournament pages here. The championship was held in University College, Cork from the 16th to the 24th July. Eighteen players participated over eight rounds with the Swiss pairing … Continue reading
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More games from the Irish Championship 1971
I’m delighted to report that Jim Murray has sent all of his games from the 1971 Irish championship. Only one of these, his round 6 game against John O’Brien, was available before, and these are the first new games to … Continue reading
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Irish Championship 1971
A report on the 1971 Irish championship has been added to the tournament pages here. The championship was held in Cork, at Lee Maltings, U.C.C., and 23 players participated. It was remarked at the time that the field was relatively … Continue reading
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Irish Championship 1978, updated
The reports on the 1978 Irish championship posted here over the past couple of years were unusually difficult to compile, because many of the pairings and results were unknown. Apart from leading to many missing entries in the tables, this … Continue reading
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Irish Championship 1982
A report on the Irish Championship 1982 has been added to the tournaments pages here. 16 of the 99 games are included; there are currently none in the ICU games archive. The event, sponsored by IBM Ireland, took place (mostly) … Continue reading
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Porter – Griffin, Irish Championship 1978
When I posted an initial report on the 1978 Irish championship here last year, I noted that there was one game that was known to survive, but was nevertheless missing: an annotation by John Griffin of one of his games, … Continue reading
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Irish championship players, updated
The lists of Irish championship players have been updated to reflect the 2021 championship, and to correct a couple of errors. There are 570 players in all, including 557 men and 13 women. Of these, 49 have been Irish champion. … Continue reading
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Irish Championship 2021
A report on the Irish Championship 2021 has been added to the tournament section here. Yet another outstanding championship—the last five have never been surpassed in the history of the event, it seems to me—saw Mark Heidenfeld win for the … Continue reading
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Irish championship players, updated
The lists of Irish championship players have been updated to add the previously missing players from the 1889 championship, i.e., those who received a handicap and who did not qualify for the final. With these additions, the lists contain the … Continue reading
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