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The Irish Chess Championship is the national Championship of Ireland, currently run by the Irish Chess Union , the FIDE-recognised governing body for the game. [1] Below is the list of champions. The first champion was J.A. Porterfield Rynd , who won the Dublin Chess Congress 1865 No. 3 Tournament, reserved for "amateurs, bona fide resident in ...
The Sonneborn–Berger score is the most popular tiebreaker method used in Round Robin tournaments.However in contrast to Swiss tournaments, where such tiebreaker scores indicate who had the stronger opponents according to final rankings, in Round Robin all players have the same opponents, so the logic is a lot less clear-cut.
He played for Ireland in the 1988 Chess Olympiad with a score of +5=1-4 on board 3. [2]He has won the Ulster Chess Championship in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1986, and 1989. [3]In April 2024, he won the Manx Chess Championship. [4]
Before the establishment of the ICU in 1912, chess competitions in Ireland were run under organisations named the Irish Chess Association (formed in 1885), the Hibernia Chess Association, or various chess clubs. Thomas Long, [7] who organised the 1865 Dublin Masters, was the first president/chairman of the Irish Chess Association. He also ...
Chess Today; Clonard chess piece; I. ... Irish Chess Union; U. Ulster Chess Championship This page was last edited on 26 July 2020, at 20:26 (UTC). ...
The Leinster Leagues are amateur chess team competitions run by the Leinster Chess Union (LCU) in the province of Leinster in Ireland. [1] [2] [3] The competitions include the Armstrong Cup, which is reputed to be the oldest Irish team league competition. Played every year since 1888, the Armstrong Cup is one of the longest running chess ...
His peak FIDE rating of 2495 is the highest achieved by an Irish-born player. Collins has won the Irish Chess Championship twice, in 2002 and in 2014, and the Japanese Chess Championship once in 2009. Among his best one off results are his draw with Alexander Grischuk in the 2010 Olympiad [7] and his defeat of Viktor Korchnoi in 2011. [8]
John O'Hanlon (23 April 1876 – 20 February 1960) was an Irish chess player. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He won the Irish Chess Championship nine times, the first title in 1913 and the last in 1940. [ 2 ] He competed in the Chess Olympiad three times, Paris in 1924, Warsaw in 1935 and Buenos Aires in 1939.