EU Championship 2005

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Basic data

EU Championship 2005
Dates March 21-31, 2005
City Cork
Venue Ballroom Suite, Gresham Metropole Hotel, MacCurtain Street, Cork
Tournament Director Michael Burniston
Assistant Director Gerry Graham
Chief Arbiter Kevin O'Connell
Players participating 115
Games played 570
Competition format 10-round Swiss. Nominally restricted to "players registered with FIDE as a player in the European Union, or a citizen of an EU member state".
Tie break Median Buchholz (by inference)
Time control 40 moves in two hours, 20 moves in one hour, all remaining moves in thirty minutes
FIDE rated? Yes (Tournament ID 31589)
Games available 569 (missing D'Costa-Bennion, round 3; in addition the end of Cafolla-Murphy, round 9, is garbled)
Other events
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Tournament review

No single comprehensive tournament report known. See press release from organisers (dead link as of February 2, 2019) and summary by TWIC.


Interesting games

         Gyimesi, Zoltán – Fox, Anthony      1-0

         Brandenburg, Daan – Walsh, Paul      1-0

         Gyimesi, Zoltán – Jones, Gawain      1-0

         Bartel, Mateusz – Cicak, Slavko      1-0

         Bischoff, Klaus – Gyimesi, Zoltán      0-1

         Cicak, Slavko – Jones, Gawain      1-0

         Palliser, Richard – Howell, David W. L.      0-1