James Alexander Porterfield Rynd
James Alexander Porterfield Rynd (born April 6, 1846 - March 17, 1917 in Dublin ) was an Irish barrister and chess player .
Porterfield Rynd, although an amateur, won the first Irish chess championship in 1865 with 16 out of 17 points. He was from 1870 to 1883 clerk for a chess column in the Irish Sportsman and Farmer . In February 1889 he announced his departure from chess, which, however, only lasted a few months. Porterfield Rynd was considered Ireland's strongest player for decades. In 1892 he won the Irish championship again, in 1893 he won the title without a fight because he was the only player to register for the competition.
He also ran a chess column for the Dublin Saturday Herald . In 1895 , Porterfield Rynd plagiarized at least two endgame studies there - the famous Saavedra study and another by Heinrich Cordes - and issued them with a few preceding moves as positions from their own games.
Later he was politically active in the Irish Unionist Alliance .
literature
- Harrie Grondijs: No Rook Unturned. A Tour Around the Saavedra Study. The Hague 2004. ISBN 90-74827-52-7 . Pp. 66-84
Web links
- David McAlister and Richard Forster: Porterfield Rynd 1846-1917 portrait on the Irish Chess Federation website, June 2000
- Tim Harding: The Last Homecoming of Mars ( Memento from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 174 kB) Article at ChessCafe.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tim Krabbé : Open Chess Diary 141-160; entry 151. Duck of the Century. https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2 , December 1, 2001, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ David McAlister: History of the Early Irish Championships on chessarch.com (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porterfield Rynd, James Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1846 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1917 |
| Place of death | Dublin |