Irish Championship 2003

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Sources and notes

Sources
The Week in Chess TWIC 453, item 16, July 14, 2003 (report); TWIC 453 pgn (35 games)
FIDE records Tournament 25290
ICU web site
  • Final scores, ICU web site
  • 35 games (plus one game included in error: see "“Discrepancies” below)
Irish Chess Online Crosstable (via David McAlister)
Web


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 previous Olympiad team (Bled 2002)

In Round bulletins,
  • () around a result denotes colours unknown (and not inferrable)
Olympiad place The winner was guaranteed an automatic Olympiad place for the 2004 Olympiad. In the event Stephen Brady chose not to accept this place.
Ratings FIDE ratings are from the July 2003 list.
ICU ratings are from the Pairings & results table at dublinchess.com.
Incomplete scores? Brady-Crichton (round 1), McPhillips-Keogh (round 3) and Brady-Short (round 7) stop with “1-0” in positions where there is no reason for Black to resign.
Discrepancies
  • O'Donovan-Bennett (round 3) is given as occurring in round 2 by TWIC 453 and the ICU games archive. This does not match the “Crosstable” given on dublinchess.com
  • The pairings in the round 3 report at dublinchess.com do not match the “Crosstable” page on the same site: Simon Jeffares is given as playing Gordon Freeman rather than John Loughran
  • The ICU games archive gives the game Cormac Brady-Sam Collins as occurring in this event, but it must have been the previous year's championship (cf. Cormac Brady 1956-2003, Hugh Cummins, CHESS IRELAND, March 1, 2003)
Versions
  • v1.0 (1 Jun 2016): first published version.
  • v1.1 (2 Jun 2016): corrected result of O'Donovan-O'Connell, round 4, to 1-0; corrected links to supportng tournaments (which had previously pointed to the 2002 events); added extra source (crosstable that had originally appeared on Irish Chess Online); added club affiliations based on the extra source. (Many thanks to David McAlister for supplying the source and pointing out these corrections.)
  • v1.2 (27 Sep 2016): modified layout.
  • v1.3 (29 Jan 2019): deleted spurious ECO code, Opening, and Variation for the unavailable game Bennett - Jeffares, round 2; updated link to ICU games archive in Sources; deleted note on game source in playable games and added link back to tournament report; added extra indexing information in playable game files
Contributors Seán Coffey