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Category Archives: Irish championships
Irish championship 2007
The 2007 Irish championship featured the largest field ever, 52 players, including 4 grandmasters, a major turnaround from the previous year’s turnout of just 12. The primary factor in the change was generous sponsorship from Island Oil & Gas, and … Continue reading
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From the 2011 Irish championship
Administrative note: post reformatted, 20 August 2012.
The 2011 Irish championship was hugely enjoyable and a credit to the players and organisers. Is it a trick of the imagination, due to the presence of live games and almost instant availability of game scores, or was the chess really more entertaining than usual? Perhaps a mixture of both?
Here is a finish with a timeless appeal:
Black now played 49 … h3. How do you evaluate this move and the resulting position with best play? Was there anything better?
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And they’re off …
The 2011 Irish championship has started. There is some excellent live coverage available from the organisers, the highly reputed e2e4 Chess, including live games for the first time ever in an Irish championship.
We gather all the information we have in a tournament report, which we’ll update continually while the championship unfolds.
July 10: Stephen Brady wins the Irish championship for the 7th time. Rory Quinn wins the weekender. July11: Eric Bennett earlier won the intermediate. Mark Finnigan won the junior. Continue reading
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Irish championship 2010
The 2011 Irish championship begins two weeks from tomorrow. To whet the appetite, we have a report on last year’s championship (1st Alex Lopez) on the Irish championships page.
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