David Ireson Lynch
Number of games in database: 7
Years covered: 1946 to 1963
Overall record: +1 -5 =1 (21.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
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DAVID IRESON LYNCH (born Apr-20-1910, died Sep-26-2002) New Zealand [what is this?] David Ireson Lynch was born in 1910 in Hastings, New Zealand. He was New Zealand North Island Champion in 1949 and won the New Zealand Championship in 1951. He was also New Zealand Correspondence Chess Champion on three ocassions in the 1940's and 1950's. In the 1952 New Zealand Championship he was the player who stopped Ortvin Sarapu from getting a picket fence of 11 wins when they drew in the last round. In the the early 1980's Eduard Gufeld and Murray Chandler both played simultaneous displays in the Hawke's Bay area and Lynch aged in his 70's drew with both. He passed away in the Hawke's Bay Regional Hospital in 2002 aged 92.

page 1 of 1; 7 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. J D Steele vs D Lynch   1-0 48 1946 New Zealand Ch C52 Evans Gambit 2. D Lynch vs O Sarapu   ½-½ 26 1952 59th New Zealand Championship E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation 3. F A Haight vs D Lynch   0-1 49 1952 59th New Zealand Championship D04 Queen's Pawn Game 4. O Sarapu vs D Lynch   1-0 27 1953 60th New Zealand Championship C77 Ruy Lopez 5. O Sarapu vs D Lynch   1-0 45 1954 61st New Zealand Championship C73 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 6. O Sarapu vs D Lynch   1-0 30 1955 62nd New Zealand Championship E58 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with 8...Bxc3 7. O Sarapu vs D Lynch   1-0 23 1963 70th New Zealand Championship C44 King's Pawn Game

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