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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 ...
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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 ...
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]
He is the author of 28 books on chess, hundreds of magazine articles and a couple of thousand newspaper columns, [1] mostly on chess but also on computing and sports psychology. Although he did head the Irish players on the rating list at the beginning of 1993, played in one Olympiad (1998) and won a few minor tournaments (e.g. Dublin 1993), he ...
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.
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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]