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Category Archives: Games
An Armstrong puzzle
Black to play: how do you evaluate the consequences of 19. … f4!? This is from the game Oliver Dunne-Eoghan Casey, Elm Mount v. Gonzaga, Armstrong Cup 1999-2000. (Thanks to Oliver for supplying it.)
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Disinformator 42
It has been an unusually eventful couple of weeks in Irish chess, with one of the closest (relegation) finishes ever in the Armstrong Cup on Sunday last, and the second e2e4 Dublin Masters beginning today. More on those items later … Continue reading
A missed opportunity
The Bunratty Festival, now up to the 20th in the series, goes from strength to strength. This year’s event had not only the usual very strong Masters, an event that has been described as a ‘ridiculously strong weekender’, but also … Continue reading
Warsaw Olympiad 1935
Ireland’s first Olympiad was Warsaw 1935, the 6th overall. As with all Olympiads, and indeed many other team tournaments, the definitive reference is the OlimpBase report, and there would be no point in assembling a different report here. However we … Continue reading
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Waterford 2012
Rory Quinn won last year’s Waterford Open in style, with 6/6, retaining his title from the year before. I asked him for his games for the archive, and he very kindly sent them. Alas! I ran into all sorts of … Continue reading
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World Youth Championships, Maribor, Slovakia
A group of seven Irish players participated in the World Youth Championships in Maribor earlier this month. A full trip report is available over on the ICU site. The organisers did a great job in transcribing 8,000+ game scores and … Continue reading
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World Senior Championship
The 22nd World Senior Championships are currently in progress in Kamena Vourla, Greece. Ireland is represented by Pete Morriss of Galway, who is having an excellent tournament so far. He’s currently on 5/8, with a tournament performance of 2236, about … Continue reading
A missed opportunity: Arkell-Allen, Blackpool 2012
From the first round of this year’s Blackpool Open in March, here’s a near-miss by Keith Allen, playing Black against GM Keith Arkell. White has been over-pressing to squeeze something out of a level position, and has now fallen into … Continue reading
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A neat ending
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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King hunt: Carlile-S. Short, Cork Congress 2007
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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