The Glorney Cup for 1972 was held in Sidcup, England. Six teams competed, including the Netherlands and France.
The Irish team was Bernard Kernan, Stephen Meyler, Tony Spillane, Colm Quigley, Robert Pye, John Nicholson, and Rod Nixon.
Ireland finished fifth, losing 4½-1½ to the Netherlands, France, and England, and 3½-2½ to Scotland, and winning 4-2 versus Wales.
England, with John Nunn, Jonathan Speelman, and Jonathan Mestel on the top three boards, easily finished first, though Nunn only managed 50% (+1 =3 -1), losing to Bernard Kernan.
Up to now Kernan’s win has been the only game from this event given in the ICU games archive, but Kevin O’Connell sent the full set of games, typed in by him form the tournament booklet, three years ago. (The delay in posting them was due to an idea of mine to develop tournament reports for team events, but that project is still pending.) The 30 Irish games have been added to the games collection here. The pgn file for the full event, including non-Irish games and three reserve player games, can be found here.
16… ?
Here’s a crushing win from Ireland’s match against Wales. Black now played 16… Re8? (16… Be6 was essential). White continued 17. c4 (even better was 17. Rxf7! immediately) 17… Nc7 18. Rxf7! Kxf7 19. Qxh7+ Ke6 20. Rd1 Rf8 21. Qxg6+ Kxe5 22. Re1+ (22. Qe4+ Kd6 23. Qe7 mate was quicker) 22… Kd4 23. Bf6+ 1-0