Vincent Maher

Last updated

Vincent Maher
Country Ireland
Born (1929-01-27) 27 January 1929 (age 94)
Dublin, Ireland

Vincent Maher (born 27 January 1929), is an Irish chess player, two-times Irish Chess Championship winner (1950, 1955).

Contents

Biography

Vincent Maher started played chess at age 13. From 1946 to 1952 he studied medicine at University College Dublin and won the Irish Universities Chess Championship three times during that period. He nine times participated in Irish Chess Championships: 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1967, and won this tournament in 1950 and 1955. [1] [2]

Vincent Maher played for Ireland in the Chess Olympiads: [3]

From 1956 Vincent Maher worked in British Army Medical Corps as medical officer. After returning from army he worked in Manchester. In 1961, Vincent Maher won the Manchester Chess Championship. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arthur Bisguier</span> American chess grandmaster

Arthur Bernard Bisguier was an American chess player, chess promoter, and writer who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Verica Nedeljković</span> Serbian and Yugoslav chess player (1929–2023)

Verica Nedeljković, was a Yugoslav and Serbian chess player who held the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was a six-time winner of the Yugoslav Women's Chess Championship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Toivo Salo</span> Finnish chess player

Toivo Salo was a Finnish chess player, three-time Finnish Chess Championship winner.

Aarne Ilmari Niemelä was a Finnish chess player, Finnish Chess Championship winner (1948).

Eigil Pedersen, was a Danish chess player, three-times Danish Chess Championship winner.

Ion Bălănel is a Romanian chess player, International Master (IM) (1954), four-times Romanian Chess Championship winner.

Octav Troianescu, was a Romanian chess player, International Master (IM) (1950), five-times Romanian Chess Championship winner.

Jaime Lladó Lumbera was a Spanish chess player, two-times Spanish Chess Championship winner, five-times Catalan Chess Championship winner.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alberto Mario Giustolisi</span> Italian chess player

Alberto Mario Giustolisi was an Italian chess International Master (IM) (1962), four-time Italian Chess Championship winner.

Erling Godtfred Myhre was a Norwegian chess player, three-times Norwegian Chess Championship winner.

James C. Creevey, was an Irish chess player, two-times Irish Chess Championship winner.

Thomas George Cranston, was an Irish chess player, two-times Irish Chess Championship winner.

Fotis Mastihiadis was a Greek chess player, and the winner of the 1949 Greek Chess Championship.

Andrzej Pytlakowski was a Polish chess player.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Władysław Litmanowicz</span> Polish chess player

Władysław Litmanowicz was a Polish chess player and FIDE International Arbiter (1968).

Gerard Joseph Kerlin was an Irish chess player and two-times Leinster Chess Championship winner.

William Minnis, was an Irish chess player, two-times Ulster Chess Championship winner.

Warwick Nash, was an Irish chess player, Irish Correspondence Chess Championship winner (1964).

Terence Christopher Kelly, was an Irish and Canadian chess player, Irish Chess Championship winner (1954).

Alexander Aird Thomson was a Scottish chess player, Scottish Chess Championship winner (1951).

References

  1. ↑ "Irish championship players (by number of championships) | IRLchess".
  2. ↑ "Players | IRLchess".
  3. ↑ "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Vincent Maher". www.olimpbase.org.
  4. ↑ "Vincent Maher". www.icu.ie.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.