Terry Kelly (chess player)

Terence Christopher Kelly (April 1931 – 19 June 2010), was an Irish and Canadian chess player, Irish Chess Championship winner (1954).

Terry Kelly
Country	Ireland Canada
Born	1931
Died	(2010-06-19)19 June 2010 Toronto, Canada

Biography

In the first half of the 1950s Terry Kelly was one of the strongest Irish chess players. He three times participated in Irish Chess Championships: 1953, 1954, 1955, and won this tournament in 1954.^[1] In 1955, Terry Kelly with chess club Eoghan Ruadh won Irish National Chess Club Championship.^[2]

Terry Kelly played for Ireland in the Chess Olympiad:^[3]

• In 1954, at second board in the 11th Chess Olympiad in Amsterdam (+0, =3, -14).

In the mid-1950s Terry Kelly moved to Canada, after which he did not participate in high-level chess tournaments.