List of Irish chess players

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The list of Irish chess players contains chess players who are or were eligible to play for the Irish Chess Union or one of its predecessors ( The Irish Chess Association or Hibernia Chess Association ) and who meet at least one of the following conditions:

General

In close chess, one grandmaster, eight international masters and one international women's champion are eligible to play for the Irish Chess Federation.

In correspondence chess, seven Irish players have earned the title of Honored International Master and three have earned the title of International Master.

The Irish Individual Championship was played 99 times and the Irish Women's Championship 24 times. The record champions are John O'Hanlon and Stephen Brady with nine titles each, while Hilda Chater and Dorren O'Siochru won the women's competition most often with five titles each.

An Irish player had a historic rating above 2499 prior to June 1971.

list

The following table contains this information:

  • Name : gives the name of the player.
  • Life data : states the year of birth and, if applicable, the year of death of the player.
  • FIDE : Names the highest FIDE title of the player (GM = Grand Master, IM = International Master, FM = FIDE Master , CM = Candidate Master , WFM = FIDE Female Master, WCM = Female Candidate Master)
  • Year : Name the year the title was awarded
  • ICCF : Calls the player's highest ICCF title (SIM = Honored International Master, IM = International Master).
  • Year : Name the year the title was awarded.
  • Title : The number of individual Irish championships won.
  • Title (Women) : The number of Irish individual championships won by women.
  • Historical Elo : Calls for players who have neither FIDE nor ICCF titles and have never won an Irish championship the highest historical Elo number achieved before July 1971 , provided that it is at least 2500.
  • Other associations : For players who were sooner or later eligible to play for at least one other association, this indicates these associations with the periods of eligibility to play (if known).

The list is as of April 4, 2020.

Surname Life dates FIDE year ICCF year title Title (women) historical Elo other associations
Alex Astaneh Lopez 1987 IN THE 2011 3 0
Alexander Baburin 1967 GM 1996 1 0 Soviet Union (until 1991), Russia (1992–1995)
Philip Baker 1880 or 1881-1932 4th 0
Richard Barnett 1863-1930 1 0
Austin Bourke 1913-1995 1 0
Stephen Brady 1969 FM 1991 9 0
Catherine Byrne 0 1
Niall Carton 1968 2 0
EM Cassidy 0 1
Hilda Chater 0 5
Sam Collins 1982 IN THE 2004 2 0
Suzanne Connolly 1963 0 1
Thomas Cox 1912-1939 2 0
Thomas George Cranston 1877-1954 2 0
James C. Creevey 1873-1967 2 0
Eugene Curtin 1960 2 0
Colm Daly 1967 FM 1997 6th 0
Ann Teresa Delaney 1962 0 2
John Delaney 1962 FM 1990 4th 0
Paul Delaney 1956 FM between 1984 and 1989 1 0
Ray Devenney 1947 1 0
Kay Doolan 0 1
Anthony Doyle 1949 SIM 1999 1 0
Patrick A. Duignan 1 0
David Dunne 1959 FM 1983 3 0
David Fitzsimons 1991 IN THE 2018 0 0
Monika Gedvilaite 1984 WFM 2012 0 2
Eugene Gibney 1955 or 1956 SIM 2004 0 0 Canada (Nahschess)
Tim Harding 1948 CM 2015 SIM 2002 0 0
Mark Heidenfeld 1968 IN THE 1998 1 0 Germany (until 1996)
Wolfgang Heidenfeld 1911-1981 6th 0 German Empire (until approx. 1935), South Africa (approx. 1935–1958)
Paul Henry 1951 1 0
Stephen Jessel 1986 FM 2006 1 0
Trisha Kanyamarala 2005 WIM 2020 0 0 India (until 2017)
Brian Kelly 1978 IN THE 1998 2 0
Terry Kelly 1930 or 1931-2010 1 0
Patrick Brendan Kennedy 1929-1966 1 0
Eamon Keogh 1944 2 0
Bernard Kernan 1955 1 0
Karina Kruk 1994 WFM 2014 0 1
Michael Flannan Littleton 1938-2002 2 0
Alan Ludgate 1945 SIM 1999 3 0
George Alcock MacDonnell 1830-1899 0 0 2624
Hugh Mac grilling 1945-2004 1 0
Vincent Maher 1929 2 0
Cecile Meulien 0 1
Ioana Miller 1995 WFM 2017 0 2
Diana Mirza 2000 WCM 2014 0 1
John Moles 1949-2015 2 0
Edmond Noel Mulcahy 1930-1968 1 0
Conor Murphy 1999 FM 2017 1 0
Darrell Nightingale SIM 2001 0 0
Aileen Noonan 0 1
Jonathan O'Connor 1963 IN THE 2013 0 0
Richard O'Donovan 1960 1 0
John O'Hanlon 1876-1960 9 0
Ciarán O'Hare 1957 SIM 2011 0 0 United States
Mark Orr 1955 IN THE 1988 2 0
Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy 1937 0 1
Dorren O'Siochru 1950 0 5
Bartholomew O'Sullivan 1900-1988 2 0
Donal J. O'Sullivan † 1960 3 0
Nicholas James Patterson 1947 1 0
Noble Quinn 0 1
Mark Quinn 1976 IN THE 1997 0 0
John Reid 1925 2 0
Brian Reilly 1901-1991 2 0
John MT Ryan IN THE 2010 0 0
Joseph Ryan 1968 FM 2001 2 0
James Alexander Porterfield Rynd 1846-1917 3 0
David Salter 1958 IN THE 2002 0 0
Michael Joseph Schuster 1919-1989 1 0
Philip Short 1960-2018 FM 1990 5 0
DG Soffe 1 0
William Desmond Taylor SIM 2002 0 0
Gearoid Ui Laighleis 1964 WCM 2008 0 1
Gavin Wall 1968 IN THE 2003 0 0 England (until 2000)

See also

Web links

Commons : Irish Chess Players  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sam Collins also won the Japanese individual championship once.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Heidenfeld also won the South African individual championship eight times.