Irish Championship 1972 sources

Irish Championship 1972

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Sources and notes

Sources
ICU records	Tournament page, ICU web site (players and scores)
John Gibson records	Scoresheets for all games, including both scoresheets for almost all; notebooks for 1971-72 Armstrong Cup
Newspapers	Evening Echo: July 18, 1972 p. 10 (later round) Evening Herald: "Clear lead for Matt O'Leary", July 12, 1972 p. 12 (round 3) "Two tie for Irish Chess title", July 18, 1972 p. 11 (round 9, joint winners) Irish Independent: "Irish chess title", July 4, 1972 p. 11 (preview) "Chess lead is shared", July 11, 1972 p. 11 (round 2) "Clear lead for Matt O'Leary", July 12, 1972 p. 10 (round 3) "Victory for Henry", July 13, 1972 p. 16 (round 4) "Irish chess championship", July 17, 1972 p. 12 (round 8) "Interesting chess in tournament", Paul Cassidy, August 4, 1972 p. 8 (review) Irish Press: "Irish chess", July 10, 1972 p. 16 (round 1) "Chess", July 13, 1972 p. 16 (round 4) "Irish chess", July 14, 1972 p. 15 (round 4) "Irish chess", July 17, 1972 p. 16 (round 8) "Chess tie", July 18, 1972 p. 14 (final results) Irish Times: "Irish chess championship", July 4, 1972 p. 15 "Irish championship", July 6, 1972 p. 13 "Lead shared in chess test", July 11, 1972 p. 10 "Irish chess championship", July 12, 1972 p. 7 "Five share lead in Irish match", July 13, 1972 p. 10 "Lead shared in chess test", July 14, 1972 p. 10 "Lead still shared in chess test", July 15, 1972 p. 13 "O'Leary leads in chess test", July 17, 1972 p. 11 "Chess championship ends in tie", July 18, 1972 p. 13 "The Irish championship", July 21, 1972 p. 12 "Resolving a deadlock", August 1, 1972 p. 12 Waterford News & Star: "Irish championship", July 14, 1972 p. 11 (venue, history of recent championships)

Notes
Key	In "Pairings & results", "age" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year (even if the birthday fell after the event). Colm Quigley (year of birth unknown) was listed as 17 years old in an article "Danish Open Chess", Irish Times, July 25, 1972 but 18 years old in a Cork Examiner article, April 28, 1972; Tony Spillane was on the 1972 Glorney Cup team and was thus probably around 17. Tony Doyle's exact date of birth is known but he dislikes even the year being shown; he was one of the youngest in this event. "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions "ol" denotes members of the Irish team at the following Olympiad (Skopje, September 18–October 13, 1972) "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
Ratings	FIDE ratings are from the July 1972 list ICU ratings are from the ICU list published in or shortly before July 1972, via Evening Echo, July 18, 1972 p. 10 LCU ratings are from the September 1971 LCU list, via John Gibson's notebooks for the 1971-72 Armstrong Cup and Irish Times, September 30, 1971 p. 16
Clubs	Club affiliations are from the following sources: Kennefick, Coveney: Evening Echo, January 25, 1972 p. 12 Quigley: Irish Times, November 22, 1971 p. 4 Keeshan: Irish Times, December 21, 1971 p. 11 All others: John Gibson's notebooks for the 1971-72 Armstrong Cup.
Game availability	No games from this event appear in the ICU games archive or any database. Only one game ever seems to have been published; Coldrick–Henry (round 8) appeared in the Irish Times, August 1, 1972 p. 12.
Name version	The scoresheets and newspaper accounts for this event list "P. O'Brien", but in the following two championships this changed to "P. Ó Briain". Newspaper reports on earlier events in the season (Heidenfeld Trophy, Leinster Intermediate Championship) refer to "P.[ádraig] Ó Briain". For this report, the name is standardised to the latter version.
Olympiad team	Paul Henry was selected for the Olympiad team but withdrew shortly before the event; he was replaced by Art Coldrick (Irish Times, August 31, 1972 p. 12).
Contemporary photographs	A photograph of the competitors at the Wexford Congress, which concluded four weeks before the start of the Irish championship, shows three of the competitors: Michael Keeshan, Art Coldrick, and Maurice Kennefick (front row, left, third from left, and fourth from left respectively).
“J. Smith”	The Irish Times round-by-round reports all list a J. Smith as one of the players, in place of Colm Egan. Why?
Playoff match	Heidenfeld won the playoff match 2½–1½ (+2 =1 –1). Further details will be provided at some stage in a separate report.
Versions	v1.0 (12 Oct 2015): first published version v1.1 (21 Sep 2016): changed "Gerry McCurdy" to "Gerald McCurdy"; modified format v1.2 (25 Sep 2016): modified format v1.3 (11 Feb 2017): corrected Kerins first name (thanks to Tony Doyle for supplying the correction) v1.4 (31 May 2017): added number of championships played for each player; added available FIDE IDs to pgn embdedded in playable games v1.5 (14 Feb 2018): changed "P. O'Brien" to "Pádraig Ó Briain", added club, added note on Sources & Notes page; modified playable games format; modified formatting on Sources & Notes page v1.6 (22 Jan 2019): corrected date of McCurdy - Kerins, round 4 (for which year was previously given as 2015); corrected date of Cafferky - Byrne, round 8 (for which month was previously given as August); added link from playable games to tournament report; added extra index information to playable game files v1.7 (3 Jul 2021): added ICU ratings from (circa) July 1972 list; added Kennefick's age and club; added references to articles from Evening Herald, Irish Independent, Irish Press, and Waterford News & Star in Sources and Notes → Sources → Newspapers; modified Clubs entry in Sources and notes → Notes; added details on winners of subsidiary events; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; changed http to https throughout
Contributors	John Gibson, Seán Coffey