Terence Christopher Kelly (April 1931 – 19 June 2010), was an Irish and

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player,

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winner (1954).

Biography

In the first half of the 1950s Terry Kelly was one of the strongest Irish chess players. He three times participated in

s: 1953, 1954, 1955, and won this tournament in 1954. In 1955, Terry Kelly with chess club ''Eoghan Ruadh'' won Irish National Chess Club Championship. Terry Kelly played for Ireland in the Chess Olympiad: * In 1954, at second board in the

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(+0, =3, -14). In the mid-1950s Terry Kelly moved to Canada, after which he did not participate in high-level chess tournaments.

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chess games at 365chess.com 1930 births 2010 deaths Irish chess players Canadian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century chess players {{Canada-chess-bio-stub