Irish Times chess columnist JJ Walsh retires after 70 years: ‘Everything has to come to an end. I’d rather go out on top’
by Bill_Badbody
Irish Times chess columnist JJ Walsh retires after 70 years: ‘Everything has to come to an end. I’d rather go out on top’
by Bill_Badbody
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No chess puns in the headline? Ah come on!
> He went to Moscow to play chess in 1956 along with an Irish civil servant who was paranoid that he would be discovered travelling behind the Iron Curtain and lose his job.
I know he loved the adventure in the Soviet Union, but it’s also known that he become a bit of a legend in the chess clubs of Prague back in the early days of the Cold War. He’d go back every couple of years for tournaments, and he really treasured the number of Czech mates he picked up throughout the years.
What a legend!
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