Here is a roundup of some of the changes this month that were not the subject of separate posts:
Branagan Cup: Two more winners were added to the roll of honour, based on Hugh Cummins’ tribute to Cormac Brady, in which he says that they were both on the Crumlin teams that won two Armstrongs and two Branagans between 1995 and 1999. Since 1997, 1998, and 1999 were already accounted for, that must mean Crumlin won in 1995 and 1996. (A bit indirect, admittedly, but with the Branagan we’ll take whatever we get.)
Simuls: We’re heading into a bumper month for simuls. In anticipation, details of the three simuls given by Steinitz in Dublin in 1881 have been added, based on Tim Harding’s research, along with several more simuls by local players.
TWIC update: Updates from five new TWICs (895-899) have been added, with 65 new Irish games.
Eugene O’Hare’s memoirs: In a couple of posts, I’ve recommended these memoirs, which are quite entertaining and deserve to be better known, but although I had found the full book on line I didn’t provide a link because I was unsure of the copyright status. However Jack O’Hare, Eugene’s son, has written to say that the book is available both in hardback and as a free pdf download from Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/browse/search.php?fSearchDataauthor=Eugene+O%27Hare.
Excellent find of Eugene O’Gare memoirs, very interesting reading – It is amazing how little we know, or care to ask about our chess colleagues