Conor Murphy (chess player)

In January 2019, he tied for first place with Daniel Gormally, Oleg Korneev, Šarūnas Šulskis, Martin Petrov, and Alexander Cherniaev at the 94th Hastings Congress.^[1] He was the lowest-rated player who tied for first and defeated grandmaster Šulskis during the event.

In August 2019, he won the Irish Chess Championship.^[2]

In August 2022, he played for Ireland at the 44th Chess Olympiad, where he earned his second GM norm and defeated four grandmasters: Amin Tabatabaei, Matthias Blübaum, Adham Fawzy, and Lorenzo Lodici, and had a performance rating of 2704.^[2] His result was deemed as the "strongest Olympiad performance by an Irish player" by Leonard Barden.^[3]

• Conor Murphy rating card at FIDE