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Colm Daly
C Daly 
 

Number of games in database: 249
Years covered: 1987 to 2023
Last FIDE rating: 2192 (2093 rapid, 2066 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2380
Overall record: +81 -112 =56 (43.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 English (31) 
    A14 A13 A10 A12 A15
 Reti System (12) 
    A04 A06
 Sicilian (10) 
    B44 B56 B72 B67 B29
 English, 1 c4 e5 (10) 
    A28 A21 A20 A25 A24
 French Defense (7) 
    C11 C10 C16 C19 C13
 Queen's Gambit Accepted (6) 
    D22 D27 D20 D26 D23
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (32) 
    B40 B42 B22 B25 B58
 King's Indian (28) 
    E62 E67 E80 E70 E92
 French Defense (15) 
    C05 C11 C02 C18 C14
 Bogo Indian (9) 
    E11
 Queen's Pawn Game (9) 
    A46 E00 D01 D00 A40
 French Tarrasch (6) 
    C05
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   C Daly vs P Short, 2008 1-0
   A Greenfeld vs C Daly, 2008 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Irish Championship (1991)
   Irish Championship (2008)
   Irish New Year IM (2023)
   Target Recruitment Masters (2001)
   Caledonian Masters (1996)
   Isle of Man Open (1998)
   Dublin Zonal (1993)
   Linares Zonal (1995)
   World Junior Championship (1987)
   European Team Championship (1992)
   European Team Championship (1997)
   European Union Championship (2008)
   Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad (2010)
   Tromso Olympiad (2014)
   Baku Olympiad (2016)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Irish New Year IM
   C Daly vs P Keller (Jan-08-23) 1/2-1/2
   O Gubanov vs C Daly (Jan-08-23) 1/2-1/2
   C Daly vs K Venkatesan (Jan-07-23) 1-0
   M Kopylov vs C Daly (Jan-07-23) 0-1
   A Rakhmangulov vs C Daly (Jan-06-23) 1/2-1/2

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COLM DALY
(born Jul-16-1967, 57 years old) Ireland

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FIDE Master. He was Irish Champion in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2012 (jointly) and 2013.

Last updated: 2024-06-22 10:31:44

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 page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 275  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. C Daly vs I Weerakoon  1-0301987World Junior ChampionshipE17 Queen's Indian
2. C Daly vs B Martin  1-0561987World Junior ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
3. Sinatra Dharma vs C Daly  ½-½231987World Junior ChampionshipB30 Sicilian
4. M R Burgess vs C Daly  1-0741987World Junior ChampionshipE62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
5. C Daly vs J Degraeve  0-1391987World Junior ChampionshipB30 Sicilian
6. C Daly vs I Datu  0-1611987World Junior ChampionshipD43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
7. C Daly vs L B Hansen  0-1371987World Junior ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
8. C Daly vs D Medard  1-0301987World Junior ChampionshipB56 Sicilian
9. T Kokkila vs C Daly  1-0451987World Junior ChampionshipB44 Sicilian
10. T Reilly vs C Daly  1-0431987World Junior ChampionshipE70 King's Indian
11. T Oparaugo vs C Daly  0-1191987World Junior ChampionshipB60 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer
12. C Daly vs H Al Khater  1-0231987World Junior ChampionshipD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
13. M Basman vs C Daly 1-0611990British ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
14. C Daly vs S Lalic  1-0491990British ChampionshipD34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
15. V Ravikumar vs C Daly  1-0471990British ChampionshipB08 Pirc, Classical
16. J C Hawksworth vs C Daly  1-0451990British ChampionshipE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
17. C Daly vs L Cooper  0-1181990British ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
18. C Daly vs Lengyel  1-0161991Metz opA30 English, Symmetrical
19. S Brady vs C Daly  0-1311991Dublin opB40 Sicilian
20. P V Griffiths vs C Daly  0-1291991Telecom opB40 Sicilian
21. C Daly vs P McMahon  1-0191991Irish ChampionshipC10 French
22. P Short vs C Daly  ½-½511991Irish ChampionshipE94 King's Indian, Orthodox
23. C Daly vs S Brady  0-1531991Irish ChampionshipA25 English
24. C Daly vs G McDonnell  0-1511991Irish ChampionshipC16 French, Winawer
25. F Noonan vs C Daly  0-1481991Irish ChampionshipA71 Benoni, Classical, 8.Bg5
 page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 275  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
May-25-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: He won a 5th Irish championship in 2013.
May-25-14  RedShield: Highly regrettable. We must work to ensure he doesn't win another.
May-25-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: Heh. I've tried, but he's better than me...
May-25-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Dom> Played Daly once, in 1988.

Fairly interesting game, if he gave less attention to it than he might; for he was preoccupied playing blitz between moves with one of the strong habitués of Harvard Square.

If <zanzibar> has any back numbers of Chess Horizons to hand from early 1989, he will quickly find this game in one of them (a Saemisch KID), as it was annotated.

May-25-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <perf> In the early 80s, I played a season as top board on a team in the main Dublin league. I was very heavily out-rated: I was about 1990, and most of my opponents were about 2300. I scored a horrible 1.5/10, and actually gained a few rating points (my predicted score was 1.4). In several of these games, I got good or at least equal positions, then was gradually ground down in the ending: this was the result against good players such as John Delaney, Tim Harding, Colm Barry and David Dunne. In just one game I was blown away in less than 25 moves. I even had White. The opponent was Daly, he played a Gruenfeld, and demolished me.
May-26-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: < Irish champion in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2012 (jointly) and 2013.>

<He won a 5th Irish championship in 2013.>

Somebody's bolloxed up.

May-26-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  SwitchingQuylthulg: Hopefully not me when I updated the bio yesterday. Until then it only listed the first four titles.
May-26-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <Ohio> - <Somebody's bolloxed up.> Nah, somebody *miscounted*. Bolloxing up is more serious.
Jun-09-14  zanzibar: Here's more biographical data, plus picture, of Colm:

http://www.irlchess.com/players/col...

FM 1998

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