Category Archives: Tournaments

Irish New Year GM Norm Event 2022

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Sean Coffey

A report on the Irish New Year GM Norm Event, which ran from January 2-6, has been added to the tournament section here. Full credit goes once again to the ICU for setting up a large number of events in … Continue reading →

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O’Gorman – Grieve, Oxford v Cambridge match 2021

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Sean Coffey

Congratulations to Tom O’Gorman, who played board 1 for Oxford University in the annual Varsity match against Cambridge this past Saturday, and recorded a fine win against fellow FM Harry Grieve, to lead Oxford to a 5½ – 2½ win. … Continue reading →

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Glorney Cup 1956

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Sean Coffey

The Glorney Cup 1956 was held at Liverpool C.C., from August 1-2, 1956. Once again, four teams participated, and again, only match results counted. In the morning of the opening day, England beat Ireland 5 – 1, and Scotland drew … Continue reading →

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Irish Championship 1982

Posted on October 10, 2021 by Sean Coffey

A report on the Irish Championship 1982 has been added to the tournaments pages here. 16 of the 99 games are included; there are currently none in the ICU games archive. The event, sponsored by IBM Ireland, took place (mostly) … Continue reading →

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Lyons – MacElligott, Kilkenny Open 1982

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Sean Coffey

I was delighted to receive a comment and a separate email from Guy Lyons, whom I well remember from my playing days, not least because he beat me once, in a game that will appear here in due course. He … Continue reading →

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Porter – Griffin, Irish Championship 1978

Posted on October 1, 2021 by Sean Coffey

When I posted an initial report on the 1978 Irish championship here last year, I noted that there was one game that was known to survive, but was nevertheless missing: an annotation by John Griffin of one of his games, … Continue reading →

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Irish Women’s Championship 2021

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Sean Coffey

The Irish Women’s Championship took place last week in Portlaoise. Congratulations to Alice O’Gorman, who won for the first time. Though she was top seed, she did not have it all her own way, and in particular was clearly lost … Continue reading →

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Glorney Cup 1955

Posted on September 8, 2021 by Sean Coffey

The Glorney Cup 1955 was held at Newman House, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, from July 27-28, 1955. The controller was Frank Maher, who had played in the 1949 event, and the chief organizer was Andrew O’Higgins. Once again, four teams … Continue reading →

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Irish championship players, updated

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Sean Coffey

The lists of Irish championship players have been updated to reflect the 2021 championship, and to correct a couple of errors. There are 570 players in all, including 557 men and 13 women. Of these, 49 have been Irish champion. … Continue reading →

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Irish Championship 2021

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Sean Coffey

A report on the Irish Championship 2021 has been added to the tournament section here. Yet another outstanding championship—the last five have never been surpassed in the history of the event, it seems to me—saw Mark Heidenfeld win for the … Continue reading →

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