Author Archives: Sean Coffey

Glorney Cup 1964

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Here is a photograph of the players at the 1964 Glorney Cup, played in London. A warmup question: can you identify the three very well known English players who are in the third row from front, seventh from right; second … Continue reading →

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Svetozar Gligorić 1923-2012

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Sean Coffey

TWIC reports that Svetozar Gligorić died today in Belgrade. (Born 2nd February 1923, Belgrade.) He was one of the household names in world chess when I was learning the moves, so for me and I’m sure for many others this … Continue reading →

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Conor Barrington

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Sean Coffey

J.J. Walsh brought the news of the recent death of Conor Barrington. There was a notice in the Irish Times (3rd-4th October 2011): Conor Barrington (Mount Tallant Avenue, Dublin), formerly of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, d. 1st … Continue reading →

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European Union Youth Championship 2012

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Ireland’s representatives at the recently-concluded European Union Youth Championships in Mureck, Austria,were Geoffrey Keating, Diana Mirza, Sasha-Ettore Faleschini and Mark Tonita (respectively U14, U12, U10, and U8). All games have now appeared on the tournament web site, and the 36 … Continue reading →

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Bibliography

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Sean Coffey

A new Bibliography page has been added to the menu above. The plan is to include information on all books, journals, columns, articles, and DVDs written in Ireland or by Irish authors. I hasten to add that the current page … Continue reading →

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Scottish championship 2012

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Several Irish players participated in the Scottish championship this year, with general success. The highlight was Conor O’Donnell’s win against Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant. At 13 he’s probably the youngest Irish player ever to defeat a grandmaster. The games from the first … Continue reading →

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Janusaitis-Dunne, Branagan Cup 2012

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Sean Coffey

Oliver Dunne sends in this snappy and instructive miniature from this year’s Branagan Cup semi-final, in which Elm Mount resoundingly defeated a considerably higher-rated Rathmines side that had just won the Armstrong Cup. Below I’ve set this up as a … Continue reading →

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Yet ?!??!!!

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Sean Coffey

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

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Sean Coffey

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

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Sean Coffey

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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