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Category Archives: Tournaments
Irish 50+ Championship 2024
The “Irish International Festival 2024”, held at the Talbot Hotel Stillorgan from January 4-7, featured an open tournament and the Irish 50+ and 65+ championships, and the Leinster Junior Championships, as well as a blitz. Congratulations to Jonathan O’Connor, who … Continue reading
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UCD Congress 2023
The inaugural UCD Congress ran the weekend before last, attracting 148 players over three sections, and thus sharply reversing a recent trend of sparse turnouts for Dublin tournaments. Congratulations to the organisers! A full report for the Masters section has … Continue reading
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Irish championship players
The lists of Irish championship players have been updated to reflect the 2023 championship, and to correct some errors and add details. Four players made their débuts in 2023, taking the total to 580 players in all, including 566 men … Continue reading
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Irish Women’s Championship 2023
The Irish Women’s Championship was held in Dublin last month, and a full report has now been uploaded here. The field of 13 spanned huge rating gaps, but as has happened in previous instances of this event, lower-rated players rose … Continue reading
Fox – D. Nolan, Irish Championship 2023
Among the many interesting moments in the recently concluded Irish Championship was the following from the encounter between Anthony Fox and Dermot Nolan in round 6. Fox – D. Nolan, Irish Championship 202353. ? I was following the game live, … Continue reading
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Irish Championship 2023
The Irish Championship 2023 is reaching its halfway stage, with (as I write this) ronnd 4 completed. A partial report, [update, August 13: now final] reflecting progress so far, has been uploaded to the tournament pages here, and will be … Continue reading
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Irish players at the 1948-49 Hastings Congress
The 24th annual international Xmas congress of the Hastings Chess Club was officially opened at 3.45 p.m. on Thursday December 30th, 1948 by Neil Cooper-Key Esq., M.P. for Hastings, supported by the Mayor and other important members of the municipality. … Continue reading
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Drogheda (Thomson Masters) 2023
The Drogheda Congress was held over the June Bank Holiday weekend, comprising four sections with 131 players in all. Very admirably, essentially all games in all sections were broadcast. A full report on the Thomson Masters has been posted to … Continue reading
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Irish Championship 1983
The Irish Championship in 1983 was held, for the first and so far only time ever, in Castlebar. With continued sponsorship from IBM, the event attracted a large field of 32, including almost all of the top players in the … Continue reading
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Proved or not proved?
The Irish Championship 1997 came down to the final game between Anthony Fox and Stephen Brady. A win for Brady would leave him tied with Joe Ryan for first, on the astounding score of 8½/9, thus sharing the title, while … Continue reading
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