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DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN CHESS PLAYER The announcement of the sudden death of Dr. Crawford Palmer from heart disease will come as a great shock to chess players throughout Ireland. The sad occurrence took place on Friday at Birkenhead Workhouse … Continue reading →

Following on from our recent post O’Hanlon at the 1940 Irish Championship, we have now compiled, in our usual format, a full report on that Championship. Originally a ten-player tournament was planned, but at the last moment the Ulster players … Continue reading →

We have previously mentioned on a number of occasions John Saunders’ outstanding Britbase website. During some recent research, John came across an important annotated Irish Championship game and kindly sent it to me, while also pointing out that elsewhere a … Continue reading →

Full reports have been added here for last month’s Sligo Spring Tournament remaining sections: the Championship (32 players, 1st Lukian Hushpit after blitz playoff), Major (10 players, 1st Oisín O’Sullivan after blitz playoff), and the mammoth Challenger (76 players, 1st … Continue reading →

Sean has recently posted about a couple of newly rediscovered O’Hanlon games in A Lively Skirmish: O’Hanlon – Scott, British Championship 1921 and O’Hanlon – Seitz, British Championship Major Open B 1938. The nine-time winner of the Irish Championship lost … Continue reading →

I suspect I had as much fun on the road to Tel Aviv as ever Bob Hope had on any of his “Roads”. – Beth Cassidy, The Road to Tel Aviv Beth Cassidy played for Ireland in the very first … Continue reading →

In my earlier article Heidenfeld and the 1958 Irish Championship I touched upon the circumstances in which Wolfgang Heidenfeld, German born but resident in South Africa for over 20 years, came to Ireland. In Mark Orr’s broader biographical sketch Wolfgang Heidenfeld … Continue reading →

In the comments to Walsh-Botvinnik, Martin Crichton mentions a game between Kiernan (presumably Bernard Kernan) and Karpov, when the latter was World Champion. I’m sceptical that such a game exists (I couldn’t find it in any of the normal databases … Continue reading →

When I played in the 1994 National Club Championship at the Winston Hotel Bangor, I received the parchment map below. My slightly faded recollection is that all the participants received a copy to mark their participation in the event, but … Continue reading →