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2558 -lrb- january 2000 -rrb- england switzerland united kingdom grandmaster 1303422 4 may 1964 joseph gerald gallagher gallagher joseph2 20081120 olympiade dresden.jpg joseph gallagher
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joseph gallagher

joseph gerald gallagher -lrb- born 4 may 1964 -rrb- is a british chess grandmaster and former british champion , as well as a chess author .
born to irish parents norah and patrick , gallagher was the eldest child -lrb- his sisters catherine , noreen , pauline and marie , and brother stephen also played chess -rrb- .
his sister marie also played chess to an international standard at age 11 .
he played for many years on the european chess circuit , before marrying and moving to neuchâtel in switzerland , taking swiss nationality , being awarded the title of grandmaster , and then winning the british chess championship in 2001 and the swiss chess championship in 1997 , 1998 , 2004 , 2005 , 2007 , and 2012 .
he has represented his adopted country switzerland regularly at the chess olympiad and at the european team chess championship since 1997 , his best result occurring at the 2006 chess olympiad , when he scored 6 1/2 / 10 .
gallagher is a noted author on various aspects of chess opening theory , being an expert on the king 's indian defence as black and the king 's gambit as white .
gallagher was one of four writers of the popular volume `` nunn 's chess openings '' -lrb- everyman chess 1999 -rrb- .
gallagher is also interested in poker .
he has a son and a daughter .
