Category Archives: Games

A missed opportunity

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Sean Coffey

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 →

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Warsaw Olympiad 1935

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Sean Coffey

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

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Sean Coffey

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

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Sean Coffey

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

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Sean Coffey

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 →

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A missed opportunity: Arkell-Allen, Blackpool 2012

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Sean Coffey

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

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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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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Cox centenary: Play-off for the Dublin CC Championship 1936

Posted on September 23, 2012 by David McAlister

Sean previously posted about the centenary of the birth of Thomas Cox, Irish chess champion in 1937 and 1938 but who died in 1939 aged only 27. This present post is the first of a series of articles on important … 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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