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Leinster Chess Championship
The Leinster Chess Championship is an annual chess competition in Ireland, which was first played in 1912. It is run by the Leinster Chess Union and the winner is declared Leinster Champion. In recent years the competition has been in conjunction with another tournament, the City of Dublin (1999), the Irish Open (2001, 2003) and since 2012 as part of the Malahide Millennium Chess tournament. Winners * 1912 – Charles J. Barry (Sackville) * 1913 – Charles J. Barry (Sackville) * 1914 – Charles J. Barry (Sackville) * 1915-1919 No championship during First World War * 1920 – Norman H. Wallace (Dublin) * 1921 – Thomas George (T.G.) Cranston (Dublin) * 1922 – Philip Baker (Sackville) * 1924 – J.T. Gerrard * 1925 – J. J. Doyle * 1926 – Philip Baker * 1928 – Ralph Theodore (R.T.) Varian * 1929 – Patrick J. Laracy * 1930 – J.T. Gerrard (U.C.D.) * 1931 – Patrick J. Laracy (Dublin) * 1933 – C. J. Barry (Sackville) * 1934 – C. J. Barry (Sackville) * 1935 – Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest on Earth. Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in Genocides in history (World War I through World War II), genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the Spanish flu, 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising French Third Republic, France, Russia, and British Empire, Britain) and the Triple A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Baker (chess Player)
Philip Baker (1880 – c. May 1932) was an Irish chess player. He won the Irish Chess Championship in 1924, 1927, 1928, and 1929. Baker was born in Riga, Latvia then part of Imperial Russia in 1880, he was a Jew. A draper and cap maker by profession, he lived in Tralee, Co. Kerry before moving to Dublin. He was Leinster champion in 1922 and 1926. In 1924 Baker finished first in the Tailteann Games. With the Sackville Chess Club Baker won the Armstrong Cup in 1926 and 1929. www.irlchess.com He died in Rathmines, Dublin in May 1932. References Further reading * ''British Chess Magazine
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John O'Hanlon (chess Player)
John O'Hanlon (23 April 1876 – 20 February 1960) was an Irish chess player.Walsh, J. (1960-02-25)"John O'Hanlon 1876-1960" ''The Irish Chess Union''. He won the Irish Chess Championship nine times, the first title in 1913 and the last in 1940. He competed in the Chess Olympiad three times, Paris in 1924, Warsaw in 1935 and Buenos Aires in 1939. Early and family life John O'Hanlon was born on 23 April 1876, Portadown, County Armagh.National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911. Residents of a house 51 in William Street (Portadown Urban, Armagh) The National Archives of Ireland. O'Hanlon played many sports in his youth, competing in swimming and rowing events. He won trophie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Kerlin
Gerard Joseph Kerlin (29 October 1910 – 12 June 1946) was an Irish chess player and two-times Leinster Chess Championship winner (1940, 1941). Biography In the end of 1930s to the mid-1940s Gerard Kerlin was one of the strongest Irish chess players. He three times participated in Irish Chess Championship The Irish Chess Championship is the national Championship of Ireland, currently run by the Irish Chess Union ( ICU), the FIDE-recognised governing body for the game. Below is the list of champions. The first champion was J.A. Porterfield Rynd, wh ...s (1937, 1939, 1940). His best result in this tournament was shared 2nd - 3rd place in 1939. Gerard Kerlin two times in row won Leinster Chess Championships: 1940, and 1941. Also, he won Dunsany Premier in 1941. Gerard Kerlin played for Ireland in the Chess Olympiad: * In 1939, at third board in the 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires (+2, =7, -6). References External links *Gerard Kerlinchess games at 365chess.com 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Heidenfeld
Wolfgang Heidenfeld (; 29 May 1911 – 3 August 1981) was a German chess player and chess composer. Heidenfeld was born in Berlin. He was forced to move from Germany to South Africa in the 1930s because he was a Jew. There, he won the South African Chess Championship eight times, and he represented South Africa in the Chess Olympiad in 1958. Besides playing chess, he was also a writer, door-to-door salesman, journalist, and designer of crossword puzzles. His hobbies were poker, bridge and collecting stamps as well as playing chess. During World War II, he used his fluency in German to help decode German messages for the Allies. In 1955, he beat former world champion Max Euwe. He also won games against Miguel Najdorf, Joaquim Durao and Ludek Pachman. He never became an International Master—he did eventually attain the required qualifications but declined to accept the award from FIDE. He wrote several chess books, including ''Chess Springbok'' (1955), ''My Book of Fun and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Brady (chess Player)
Stephen Brady (born 12 March 1969) is an Irish chess player This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. A * Jacob Aagaard (Denmark, Scotland, born 1973) * Manuel Aaron (India, born 1935) * Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan, bor ... and FIDE Master. He became a nine time Irish national champion, in some cases together with another player, in the years 1991, 1992, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012 and 2015. Brady also won the Leinster Chess Championship in 1990, 1997 and 2003. He has played for Phibsboro Chess Club, with whom he has won the Armstrong Cup – Division one of the Leinster Leagues on seven occasions, and also won the Irish National Club Championships in 2003. More recently he has played for St. Benildus Chess Club. His favourite chess opening is the King's Gambit. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Baburin
Alexander Evgenyevich Baburin (, ''Aleksandr Yevgen'yevich Baburin''; born 19 February 1967) is a Russian-Irish grandmaster of chess. He was born in Gorky, and has been living in Dublin, Ireland since 1993. He is editor-in-chief of the e-mail distributed chess newspaper Chess Today and is a coach and author. Chess career Baburin became Irish champion in 2008, the first year in which he entered the competition. He cited past comments from fellow Irish players as the reason he had not entered previously. His participation in the Irish Olympiad team has generated some controversy, being non-native Irish. Baburin is known for giving talks about chess at many venues throughout Ireland. Baburin is currently Ireland's only chess grandmaster, a title he earned in 1996. Baburin is on the Irish chess team, the highest-ranked member. One of Baburin's most famous victories is against Veselin Topalov in a four on one simultaneous exhibition. In March 2022, Baburin won the John Bolger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl McPhillips
Karl McPhillips (11 April 1988) is an Irish chess player This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. A * Jacob Aagaard (Denmark, Scotland, born 1973) * Manuel Aaron (India, born 1935) * Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan, bor ... with FIDE rating 2240 in 2005 and 2303 in 2016. He is FIDE Master (FM). In February 2005 he won the Gonzaga Classics. In July 2005 he became third at the national Irish chess championships, held in Dublin, scoring 6.5/9. In the same year he was one of four boys, selected by the Irish Chess League to participate in the World Junior Chess Championship. In 2011 and in 2014 he won the Armstrong Cup. irishchesshistory.wordpress.com References External links * {{DEFA ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colm Daly
Colm Daly is an Irish chess player This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. A * Jacob Aagaard (Denmark, Scotland, born 1973) * Manuel Aaron (India, born 1935) * Nijat Abasov (Azerbaijan, bor ... and FIDE Master (FM). He became Irish national champion six times, sometimes in a tie with another player, in 1998, 1999, 2005 (scoring 8/9), 2009, 2012 and 2013. In September 2015, he won the City of Dublin tournament with 4 points in 5 rounds. leinsterchess.com, Leinster Chess Union References {{DEFAULTSORT:Daly, Colm British chess players[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess In Ireland
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The recorded history of chess goes back at least to the emergence of a similar game, chaturanga, in seventh-century India. The rules of chess as we know them today emerged in Europe at the end of the 15th century, with standardization and universal acceptance by the end of the 19th century. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no use of dice or cards. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
