| Sources |
| ICU web site |
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| TWIC |
TWIC 92, item 12 (report by John Hurley, including leading scores) |
| Newspapers |
- The Examiner
- July 23, 1996 p. 78 (L22) (Jim Olney) (summary report, leading scores, score of O'Donovan - Daly, round 2, end of O'Brien - O'Shaughnessy, round 5 (as puzzle))
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- Sunday Independent
- July 21, 1996 p. 53 (17L) (Michael Hennigan) (summary report, annotation of McMahon - O'Donovan, round 5 and end of Brady - Daly, round 6)
- July 28, 1996 p. 50 (14L) (Michael Hennigan) (annotation of Daly - Hurley, round 3, end of Keogh - Clarke, round 8 (as puzzle))
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- Sunday Tribune
- June 30, 1996 p. 64 (M30) (John Hurley) (announcement, preview)
- July 14, 1996 p. 62 (M30) (John Hurley) (report to round 4; annotation of Heidenfeld - O'Donovan, round 3; portion of Ó Cinnéide - O'Connell, round 3 (as puzzle); summary results of Weekender)
- July 21, 1996 p. 64 (M30) (John Hurley) (final report, summary results of Irish Intermediate and Junior Championships)
- August 4, 1996 p. 64 (M30) (John Hurley) (annotation of Daly - Quinn, round 9)
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| 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)
- "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
- "ol" denotes members of the Olympiad team (Yerevan 1996)
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
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| Missing games |
- Fox - Palmer, round 5
- Cafolla - C. Brady, round 9
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| Incomplete games |
Ó Cinnéide - O'Connell, round 3 is definitely incomplete (a later stage of the game appeared in the Sunday Tribune). In addition, the game Keogh - Muntadas, round 1 is almost certainly incomplete (final position makes no sense in the light of the result, without a plausible explanation). The games O'Donovan - Ó Cinnéide, round 1 and Porter - O'Shaughnessy, round 1 may be incomplete (result makes no sense in light of final known position, but could be due to a loss on time or acceptance of a draw offer, respectively). |
| Tie break |
- Since 1975, the ICU practice and/or policy was that two eligible tied players would share the title, but (from at least 1981) for three or more a tie-break would apply to produce a single champion. In 1982, a three-way tie was resolved to produce a single champion via progressive / cumulative, and this was the method listed on entry forms from 1981 to 1987. The tie break method for 1996 is unknown, but based on this history and Colm Daly's remarks (see below) was probably progressive / cumulative. Richard O'Donovan would have won under any of the other usual automatic methods as well (Median Buchholz, Buchholz, or Sonneborn-Berger)
- Colm Daly commented many years later that "the first I heard of there even being such a practice about, for example, the tie break options that saw the 1996 Irish Championships title go to Richard O Donovan was soon after the last game was played. [Which was my win against Mark Quinn that saw me join Tom Clarke as the joint winners] Well needless to say while it turned out that Richard got the title and much later the trophy for that year I never regarded myself as any less the Irish Champion or any more the Irish Champion than Tom Clarke or Richard. The technical reality was that there was no advance notice given of such a policy and in any event I agreed that that there should be only one title holder" (Irish Championship, ulchess.com, June 24, 2013 (via the Wayback Machine))
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| Sponsor |
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| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 1996 list.
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| Errata |
Versions v1.0-v1.2 of this report gave an incorrect score for Palmer - Crichton, round 6. The incorrect version had 36... R5c7 (??) instead of 36... Rc2 as played, and it omitted White's last move (45. Kh2). Both the incorrect and correct versions can be found in the same file in the archives of John Hurley's CHESS IRELAND website: see "Recent Irish games (1996/97)", with the incorrect version indicated as deleted (both links via the Wayback Machine). |
| Versions |
- v1.0 (20 Dec 2018): first published version.
- v1.1 (20 Dec 2018): corrected broken link back to tournament from playable games; corrected version date (was given as 21 Dec 2018)
- v1.2 (26 Jan 2019): corrected typo in "Incomplete games", in Notes; added extra indexing information in playable game files
- v1.3 (31 Jan 2019): corrected significant errors in Palmer - Crichton, round 6; added light notes to Palmer - Crichton, round 6; added Errata item under Notes; changed dead link in Notes → Sponsor to a different link with the same information, and added link to RTÉ story
- v1.4 (2 Jan 2021): modified description of tie break method in Information → Tie break and Sources and notes → Notes → Tie break; changed dead links to versions from Wayback Machine; modified links to change to https version where possible and to eliminate redirects
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| Contributors |
Seán Coffey |