“Let us all salute Tony Doyle, the new Irish chess champion. In the recent championship decided in the Dublin C.C., Doyle led from start to finish, and was unbeaten in scoring seven points from his eight games. ...

Five straight wins gave Doyle a one-point lead over Cassidy and a 1½-point advantage over Dennehy, Kernan, and Art Coldrick, but Cassidy could only score a solitary draw from his last three games and none of the other rivals could make any significant impression on Doyle's advantage. Doyle struck a decisive blow when he defeated his bete noire, Kernan, in the penultimate round, and a draw against Dennehy in his final game was sufficient to give him a well-deserved championship win. ...

Bernard Kernan's third place was a personal disappointment but it could easily have been worse, as he salvaged a first-round draw after losing a piece. In the final round he survived to defeat Paul Cassidy after his opponent overlooked a two-move winning combination in time pressure. ...

... If the absence of some leading players was reflected in the quality of the play, there is no doubting that the best players came through in the end and that we have a new and worthy champion.”