Philip Short (chess player)

Philip Michael Short (15 May 1960 – 31 August 2018) was an Irish competitive chess player, FIDE Master and five times Irish chess champion.

Philip Short
Country	Ireland
Born	(1960-05-15)May 15, 1960 Cork, Ireland
Died	August 31, 2018(2018-08-31) (aged 58) County Galway, Ireland
Title	FIDE Master (1990)
Peak rating	2334 (December 2018)

He won the Irish Chess Championship in 1981, 1986, 1988, 2015 and 2017^[1] as well as the Provincial Championship of Munster in 1989, 1991 and 1993^[2] and the Provincial Championship of Connacht in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.^[3] Furthermore, he was a regular player in Irish open weekend tournaments and placed first at the Kilkenny Chess Congress in 1977, 1979 and 1980,^[4] at the Mulcahy Memorial in 1984, 1991 and 1993,^[5] and at the Cork Congress in 1994.^[6]

He participated with the Irish team at the 25th Chess Olympiad in 1982 and the 27th Chess Olympiad in 1986, both times on board three.^[7] In 1990, he was awarded the title of a FIDE Master. He also played for the Douglas Chess Club in the 1993 and 1997 European Chess Club Cup.^[8]