Monthly Archives: August 2012

Yet ?!??!!!

Gawain Jones has won this year’s British championship, the 99th overall. Hearty congratulations, though not a huge surprise as he was after all the top seed. He lived for two years in Ennis, and his name came up here recently … Continue reading

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Heidenfeld-Kerins, Dublin 1973

Over at the LCU Blog, there’s a discussion of illegal moves in games (scroll down in the comments for an example from Peter Cafolla). This calls to mind an Irish world record, at least according to Tim Krabbé’s Chess Records … Continue reading

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Monthly update, July

Here are some of the items in the past month that were not the subject of separate posts, along with some description of future plans: Games archive: 39 games were added from TWIC 923 (there were no Irish games in … Continue reading

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