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J.J. Walsh unpublished manuscript: selected Irish games 1896-1967

At IRLchess we’re interested in all aspects of Irish chess history and records, but above all in games. The ICU games archive has good coverage, of course, but there are many other published games that are not included there. And … Continue reading

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TWIC 888

This week TWIC has 25 Irish games: 2 each from Sam Collins, Ryan-Rhys Griffiths, and Gavin Wall (4NCL), 1 from Joe Ryan (III Tancat IM), 5 from Sarah Hegarty (4 from European Women’s Team Ch and 1 from 4NCL), 7 … Continue reading

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TWIC 887

This week’s issue of TWIC contains just three Irish games. It did not contain any games from last week’s e2e4 Gatwick International; the FIDE tournament reports don’t give the games either, and they’ve even disappeared from the organiser’s web site. … Continue reading

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The Week in (Irish) Chess

Essentially all readers are familiar with The Week in Chess. (For those who are not: it’s a weekly report on tournaments worldwide in the previous week, usually with several thousand games; one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern Chess … Continue reading

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Déjà vu

Blunders: the bane of every chessplayer. There is almost nothing that can cure the sting, except perhaps for Time, the Great Healer, to work its soothing magic. Sometimes a small amount of solace can be derived from seeing the same … Continue reading

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Short-Brady, Irish championship 2007

Administrative note: post reformatted 20 August 2012.

Short-Brady, Irish Ch 2007Short, Philip – Brady, Stephen
Irish Championship (9), Dublin, 8 July 2007

83. Bg2 e2 84. Kd2 Bc4 85. Bh3 Kd4 86. Bd7 Ke4 87. g6 Kf3 88. Ke1 Ke3 89. Be8 Bd3 90. Bf7 Bc2 91. Be8 Bb1 92. Bb5 Bxg6 93. Bxe2 Bc2 94. Bb5 Kd4 95. Kd2 Bb3 96. Ke1 Kc5 97. Kd2 Kb4 98. Kc1 Bxa4 99. Bd3 Bb5 100. Bg6 a4 101. Kb2 a3+ 102. Ka1 Bc4 103. Be4 g5 104. Bg2 g4 105. Ba8 g3 106. Bg2 Kc3 107. Bh3 Kd2 108. Bg2 Ke3 109. Bh3 Kf2 110. Kb1 Be6
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