Hugh MacGrillen
Number of games in database: 79
Years covered: 1965 to 1974
Overall record: +20 -28 =31 (44.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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With the White pieces:  King's Indian (9)      E92 E98 E74 E99 E97  Modern Benoni (6)      A56 A73 A70 A58  English, 1 c4 e5 (4)      A27 A21  Nimzo Indian (4)      E45 E56 E42	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (11)      B52 B89 B81 B47 B82  Nimzo Indian (5)      E41 E28 E32 E50  King's Indian (4)      E92 E88 E62  Ruy Lopez, Closed (4)      C91 C96 C84 C95  Ruy Lopez (4)      C91 C96 C84 C95

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HUGH MACGRILLEN (born 1945, died Jan-10-2004) Ireland [what is this?] Hugh MacGrillen learned to play chess when he was 10 years old. He was Irish Champion in 1973. He played in two Olympiads: Skopje 1972, and Nice 1974.

page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 79  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. H MacGrillen vs D A MacDaeid 0-1 27 1965 IRL-ch A93 Dutch, Stonewall, Botvinnik Variation 2. H MacGrillen vs P Hohler   ½-½ 33 1966 Orebro Stud olm prelim4 E12 Queen's Indian 3. T Bjornsson vs H MacGrillen   1-0 40 1966 Orebro Stud olm fB E88 King's Indian, Samisch, Orthodox, 7.d5 c6 4. H MacGrillen vs D Rivera   1-0 43 1966 Orebro Stud olm fB A21 English 5. H MacGrillen vs S Kagan   ½-½ 40 1966 Orebro Stud olm prelim4 E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 6. H MacGrillen vs Krantz   0-1 25 1966 Orebro Stud olm fB A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3 7. J Rodriguez Cordoba vs H MacGrillen   ½-½ 18 1966 Orebro Stud olm fB D42 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 7.Bd3 8. J Verstraeten vs H MacGrillen   ½-½ 16 1966 Orebro Stud olm fB B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack 9. H MacGrillen vs P Hohler   0-1 36 1966 Orebro Stud olm fB C95 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer 10. H MacGrillen vs P Jamieson   0-1 57 1966 Orebro Stud olm fB A54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3 11. P N Lee vs H MacGrillen   1-0 33 1966 Orebro Stud olm prelim4 C95 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Breyer 12. S Bouaziz vs H MacGrillen   1-0 41 1966 Orebro Stud olm fB E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto 13. O Seuss vs H MacGrillen   0-1 47 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed 14. M Moe vs H MacGrillen   ½-½ 21 1968 WchT U26 15th qual-D C27 Vienna Game 15. H MacGrillen vs G Israel   ½-½ 34 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B E99 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov 16. D Levy vs H MacGrillen 0-1 49 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B C45 Scotch Game 17. B Kristjansson vs H MacGrillen   ½-½ 23 1968 WchT U26 15th qual-D C96 Ruy Lopez, Closed 18. H MacGrillen vs L Holmstrand   1-0 40 1968 WchT U26 15th qual-D D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted 19. N Skalkotas vs H MacGrillen   0-1 26 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B E28 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch Variation 20. H MacGrillen vs A Zwaig   ½-½ 44 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B A56 Benoni Defense 21. H MacGrillen vs Keene 0-1 61 1968 Student Olympiad E45 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation 22. F Saboya vs H MacGrillen   ½-½ 19 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B E50 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Nf3, without ...d5 23. H MacGrillen vs T Porrasmaa   ½-½ 16 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B E91 King's Indian 24. E Eichhorn vs H MacGrillen   ½-½ 27 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 25. H MacGrillen vs A J Whiteley   ½-½ 48 1968 WchT U26 15th fin-B D48 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 79

Mar-17-07    Domdaniel: After the 1974 Nice Olympiad, some commentator came up with the obvious pun: "MacGrillen gaves Schmidt a Grilling but could not quite win..." Those 1974 games don't seem to be available here, which is a pity. Mar-17-07    Domdaniel: It won't often be applicable, of course, but in cases where there are gaps in the database record for a Player of the Day it'd be nice if we could 'celebrate' the occasion by trying to fill the holes. There are more MacGrillen games (I think) in TICA, The Irish Chess Archive, reachable via the same link as the biographical note above. Mar-17-07    chessgames.com: <it'd be nice if we could 'celebrate' the occasion by trying to fill the holes.> We do that sometimes. Today would be a great day for that; we'll see what we can dig up. Mar-17-07    chessgames.com: We just processed a few thousand Irish games from TICAbase including many by MacGrillen. Mar-17-07    Domdaniel: <chessgames> Thank you for that, and on St Patrick's day as well. Nice one -- you people are stars. I've played against an awful lot of those players and it's good to see them represented here. And TICAbase, developed and operated in the 1990s by IM Mark Orr, is a model resource of its type. Players born in Ireland and included in TICA include Alexander McDonnell, James Mason and Hugh Alexander. Also featured are those born elsewhere who represented Ireland, such as Brian Reilly, Wolfgang Heidenfeld, Tim Harding and Alex Baburin. Mar-17-07    refutor: TICABase is an unbelievably awesome resource Mar-17-07    RookFile: Nice work chessgames!!

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