Author Archives: Sean Coffey

A neat ending

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Sean Coffey

From Kriebel-Collins, Teplice Open 2011: how did Sam Collins (Black, to play) save the game? [Click for solution.] [Click to replay the full game.]

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Monthly updates, August and September

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Here is an update on the items in August and September that weren’t the subject of separate posts. Pressure of work and travel kept me from posting an update last month. Games collection: Games with an Irish connection pop up … Continue reading →

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King hunt: Carlile-S. Short, Cork Congress 2007

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Time for another game, and here’s one from the games page on Cork C.C.’s web site. It’s a dramatic one, involving everyone’s favourite theme, the king hunt. Strangely it wasn’t included in the ICJ report on the event and it … Continue reading →

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Znosko-Borovsky – O’Hanlon, Hastings Reserves 1946-47

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Returning (after a long absence) to , the next that is missing from the ICU games archive (and indeed Big Database 2012 and all other databases I’m aware of) is a win by J.J. O’Hanlon against Eugene Znosko-Borovsky at Hastings … Continue reading →

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A la Morphy

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Oliver Dunne sends in a highly unusual and interesting game from this year’s Branagan Cup: Carl Jackson – Oliver Dunne Branagan Cup 2012, round 1 Gonzaga-Elm Mount (5), 16 April 2012 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. exd5 Nxd5 … Continue reading →

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Alexander Baburin

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Sean Coffey

The recent discussion around Alex Lopez’s near-miss of a GM norm at the Istanbul Olympiad reminded me that the biography pages here were missing a page for Ireland’s first (and still only) GM, Alexander Baburin. He earned the title a … Continue reading →

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Istanbul Olympiad

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Anyone at all interested in Irish chess is surely following the progress of the Irish teams at the Olympiad in Istanbul. The live games coverage is outstanding, the captain of the open team, Colm Daly, is also reporting progress on … Continue reading →

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Pictures from the Dublin Zonal, 1957

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Over at the ICU site there’s a fascinating report from Mark Orr, on a hitherto unknown trove of photographs, mostly of the Dublin zonal in 1957, belonging to Joe Keenan and discovered this year by his relative John Shearan (Malahide … Continue reading →

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Donaldson-Aoustin, Cork Congress 2012

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Sean Coffey

The Olympiad starts on Monday, with the first games on Tuesday. Best of luck to the Irish teams (Sam Collins, Alex Lopez, Ryan-Rhys Griffiths, Gavin Wall and Daire McMahon for the open event, and Monika Gedvilaite, Hannah Lowry-O’Reilly, Gearóidín Uí … Continue reading →

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A miniature: Allen-Clarke

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Time for a game. And why not a miniature? Here is an entertaining and instructive game between Keith Allen and Tom Clarke, event and date unknown (possibly a club game?) from a club game around 1988. Source: James O’Fee’s blog … Continue reading →

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