Martin Crichton points out that Conor Murphy has just made his third IM norm at the Muswell Hill IM norm event, which concludes today. Since he had already crossed the 2400 mark, this fulfils the last requirement for the title. Congratulations!
It’s all the more impressive that this achievement happened in an event that started the day after the Irish championship finished.
Many thanks to Martin for providing the news.
Conor just got a GM norm
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/northumbia-masters-2021-gm/9/1/1
In my opinion he is the new favourite now ahead of Kelly, Collins and Lopez due to his age, hunger and talent to become Ireland’s first (non Russian) GM.