Conor Murphy (chess player)
Irish chess player (born 1999)
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Conor Edmond Murphy is an Irish chess player.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 15, 1999 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | England (until 2018) Ireland (since 2018) |
| Title | International Master (2021) |
| FIDE rating | 2439 (July 2026) |
| Peak rating | 2487 (December 2023) |
Chess career
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]