Irish Championship 2013 - Colm Daly 6 times Champ

[John McKenna]

Today, in his times chess column, RDK has come with one of his rare up-to-date reports (they are often historical). I was pleasantly surprised to see that he covers the Irish Chess Championship and gives a game - against Mark Orr - by the winner, Colm Daly. Colm, a very good bloke, is champion for the 6th time in this the ICU's centenary.

[Paul McKeown]

Colm Daly [... snip...] a very good bloke

There are many that hold a different view. The rights and wrongs are mostly ancient history, as usual, though, and I wouldn't care to judge. That having been said, congratulations are due to Colm D., a fine achievement indeed. Also to Ray Keene, a good column today it appears.

[John McKenna]

Paul is right to pull me up.

What I should have written was - Colm, a very good bloke when I met him many years ago...
Whether he really is good or not, he must be not bad at chess.

A visiting GM once told me that he believed anyone who plays chess is 'good'. I would not go that far. However, for some it is easy to divide the people of the world into 'good' and 'bad' based on simple criteria.
Elsewhere on the forum figures have been bandied about, like - roughly 6 million 'good' people in England and 600+ million in the world. They are minorities and most of them only just a little bit 'good'.

As for me, even when I am any 'good' I am not much 'good' and when I am bad...(Let's no go there.)

[John McKenna]

For anyone who might be interested -

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