The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Ireland
This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 374 Chess Players, 1 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 47th most number of Chess Players behind Sweden and Iceland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Irish Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (1909 - 1974)
With an HPI of 50.35, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander is the most famous Irish Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (19 April 1909 – 15 February 1974), known as Hugh Alexander and C. H. O'D. Alexander, was an Irish-born British cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for 25 years. He was twice British chess champion and earned the title of International Master.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as chess players born between 1909 and 1909. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased chess players include Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander.
