EU Championship 2005 sources

EU Championship 2005

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Sources and notes

Sources
Cork C.C. web site	Entry form (via the Wayback Machine) Tournament details (via the Wayback Machine) Poster (via the Wayback Machine) Games, photographs, press releases (via the Wayback Machine)
FIDE records	Tournament ID 31589
TWIC	TWIC 543, item 8
Magazines	BCM 2005 pp. 240-41 (report, three annotated games) Disinformator (Oxford C.C. Club Newsletter) 33, May 2005, pp. 4-7 (report, three photographs, review of playing conditions, account of prizegiving)
Newspapers	Chicago Tribune: December 26, 2004, J. D. Brown and Margaret Backenheimer, Cork debuts as Cultural Capital" Irish Examiner: March 23 p. 4 (photo of Alexandra Wilson) March 19, 2005 pp. 96-97 (weekend pp. 2-3), Tom Hickey, "Cream of the chess world to battle Lee-side" (photos of Michael Burniston, Alex Lopez) March 24, 2005 p. 10 March 25, 2005 p. 11, Alan Good, "Youth checks in at chess championship" (photo of Oisín P. Benson) April 1, 2005 p. 11, Alan Good, "Chess champs make their move to victory" (photo of Jan Müller) April 1, 2005, p. 42 (local news p. 11), Alan Good, "European chess champions make their move to victory" (photo of winners; photo of Jan Müller, Sam Osborne, Thomas Lane) April 2, 2005 p. 127 (weekend p. 39), Jim Olney April 9, 2005 p. 130 (weeekend p. 39), Jim Olney (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.) Irish Independent: March 21, 2005 p. 3, Olivia Kelleher, "Chess tests 'a coup' for the Capital of Culture" March 25, 2005 p. 5 (photo of Gearóidí Uí Laighléis, with Aisling Ní Laighléis) (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.) Sunday Independent: March 27, 2005 p. 76 (sports p. 15), Alexander Baburin April 3, 2005 p. 89 (sports p. 15), Alexander Baburin April 10, 2005 p. 47 (sports p. 15), Alexander Baburin (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.) Taipei Times: December 29, 2004, "Will the 'real capital' of Ireland please stand up"

Notes
Key	In "Pairings & results", "tb" denotes tie-break: here Median Buchholz
Wider event	The tournament was part of a series of events to celebrate Cork's selection as European City of Culture 2005. See Cork 2005 website (snapshot of January 27, 2006, via the Wayback Machine).
Event series	This was the inaugural European Union individual championship. Subsequent events were held in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010.
Titles	Alex Lopez crossed 2300 during the event and thus gained the FM title.
Tie-break	The tie-break system used is unknown. The TWIC report said that tie-break had been used and listed the Median Buchholz totals; though these are often given by default by tournament software.
Ratings	FIDE ratings are from the March 2005 list ICU ratings are from the January 2005 list
Talking points	The prizegiving held more interest than is usual in such cases. The ICU AGM 2005 minutes reported that "as a result of inappropriate behaviour by IM David Howell at the Cork event, the ICU Committee banned him from any ICU run events, and will be recommending a ban on him by other tournament controllers, until the end of 2007.
Clubs	Clubs for Leinster players are from the LCU's records of the 2004-05 season.
Discrepancies	David Howell is given as an FM in the FIDE rating list for January 2005, but as having received the IM title at the 75th FIDE Congress at Calvià in 2004, and as having received the IM title in 2004 on his FIDE player page.
Incorrect game scores	The score of Cafolla - Murohy (round 9) is garbled, starting (at the latest) with 25. Qa6.
Versions	v1.0 (26 Dec 2016): first posted version v1.1 (2 Feb 2019): added note on dead link in Information 7#8594; Tournament review; modified layout of playable games and added etxra indexing information in playable games1 v1.2 (22 Aug 2020): added Rasa Norinkevičiūtė full name throughout; changed http to https where possible; modified format v1.3 (9 October 2020): corrected player misidentification: David J. Smith (IRL; FIDE ID 2501929) was previously incorrectly given as David Smith (ENG; FIDE ID 24615692); added Smith's ICU rating
Contributors	Seán Coffey