| Sources |
| ICU web site |
Scores and places; games archive (all 80 games, as of date of v1.0 of this report) |
| Irish Chess Journal |
- vol. 11, no. 2, March 1999 (ICU ratings and clubs)
- vol. 11, no. 2, March 1999, p. 24 and back cover (announcement and details)
- vol. 11, no. 4, September-October 1999, pp. 13-18 (report, 18 games)
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| BritBase |
pg99irl.zip (all 80 games plus two blanks). |
| Newspapers |
- Drogheda Argus & Leinster Journal
- “Country's elite will be in competition”, April 2, 1999 p. 54 (preview)
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- The Examiner (Jim Olney)
- March 25, 1999 p. 25 (preview)
- May 11, 1999 p. 16 (report, scores of Daly - Clarke, round 8 and Daly - McCarthy, round 1)
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- Drogheda Independent
- "Major chess event for Boyne Valley", April 2, 1999 p. 27 (preview)
- "Daly wins Coca Cola title", April 16, 1999 p. 36 (report)
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- Dundalk Democrat:
- "Chess tournament", April 3, 1999 p. 6 (preview)
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- Sunday Tribune (John Hurley)
- April 11, 1999 p. P-9 (report after three rounds)
- April 18, 1999 p. P-9 (report, annotation of Daly - McCarthy, round 1)
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- May 30, 1999 p. P-9 (puzzle based on Dooley - O'Rourke, round 5)
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| Sundry web commentary |
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| IRLchess |
Irish championship 1999, April 13 & July 16, 2017 |
| Notes |
| Key |
In "Pairings & results", - "(age)" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year, regardless of whether the birthday fell before, during, or after the event
- "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
- "ol" denotes members of the previous Olympiad team (Elista 1998)
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| Débuts and final appearances |
Eric Bennett and David Path made their Irish championship débuts. Michael Dooley, Jim McCarthy, and John Nicholson played their last championship. |
| Ratings |
FIDE ratings are from the January 1999 list.
ICU ratings are from the January 1999 list. |
| Versions |
- v1.0 (13 Apr 2017): first published version
- v1.1 (25 May 2017): added alternate FIDE ID for John Nicholson (in embedded pgn within playable games): he appears in the July 1999 list under 2500574, but this number was later aassigned to Herbert Scarry; Nicholson's current FIDE ID is 2501724
- v1.2 (29 May 2017): removed the earlier FIDE ID for John Nicholson in playable games
- v1.3 (16 Mar 2018): added notes to Nicholson - Cafolla (round 8) and modified Annotations Index; modified format of playable games
- v1.4 (27 Jan 2019): added extra indexing information in playable game files
- v1.5 (12 Jan 2021): added light notes to O'Donovan - Dooley, round 1 and Daly - O'Connor and Bennett - Path, round 3, and added games to Annotations index; added link to annotation of Ó Cinnéide - Clarke, round 2, from playable game; added references to newspaper reports; corrected link to scores and places on ICU web site (previously the link went to the 1997 championship); added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; added entries for "Prize fund" and "Entry fee" and modified entry for "Tie break" in Information → Basic data; removed link to Source in playable games (covered by Event information); changed http URLs to https where possible
- v1.6 (10 Apr 2023): modified notes to Daly - O'Connor, round 3; replaced notes to Bennett - Path, round 3 (source given as “this report”) with the (virtually identical) notes from the ICJ; added link to ICJ report in Information → Tournament review; added notes from ICJ vol. 11, no. 4 in 9 games; modified selection of Interesting games; modified description of tie-break in Information → Basic data; added Schedule entry in Information → Basic data; modified Prize fund entry in Information → Basic data; added extracts from ICJ vol. 11, nos. 2 and 4 (from John Gibson collection); removed duplicate articles from The Examiner in Sources and notes → Sources → Newspapers; added references to three Sunday Tribune and one Drogheda Argus and Leinster Journal article(s), and modified playable games and Annotations index accordingly; added Interprovincial 1999 to list of Concurrent events in Information → Basic data; changed "age" to "(age)" in Pairings & results, and modified Key in Sources and notes → Notes; added "irlch1999_tables.txt" file in directory; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; changed "tie break" to "tie-break" (one place); modified spacing in pairings & results; added XML directory and file
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| Contributors |
Seán Coffey, David McAlister |
| Author |
Seán Coffey |