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Philip Short vs Colm Daly, Irish Championship, 2018

Philip Short vs Colm Daly

Irish Championship, 2018

The Irish chess community recently lost one of its finest players, FM Philip Short, who passed away soon after this year’s Irish Championship. Many times Irish champion (including in 1981 and 2017), Philip was the strongest of several chess-playing brothers, and often represented Ireland at chess Olympiads. He will be missed.

This impressive positional win, against one of Ireland’s strongest players, was his last game.