Irish Championship 2004 sources

Irish Championship 2004

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Sources and notes

Sources
Entry form	entryform.doc (1-page Word document)
Web	Tournament bulletins (Gerry Graham), originally published at Irish Chess Online ICU games archive (all 90 games) ICU tournament records (scores and places). ICU Scraps 2004 Irish Senior Championships, Colm Daly, Dublinchess.com (commentary on the decision to make the event open to non-Irish players) (via the Wayback Machine) 2004 Irish Chess Championship (announcement, November 24, 2003) (via the Wayback Machine)
Newspapers	Evening Echo: "Historical move for Irish chess", Jennifer O'Malley, July 14, 2004 p. 69 (EE1 p. 9) (description, photos of Brady, McPhillips, Mudrák) : Irish Examiner: July 10, 2004 p. 131 (WX39), Tom Hickey (preview) July 17, 2004 p. 129 (WX31), Tom Hickey (report on Brady losses in rounds 3 and 4, unannotated score of McPhillips - Brady, round 3) July 31, 2004 p. 108 (WX39), Jim Olney (final report, unannotated scores of Brady - Ryan, round 4 and McPhillips - Jones, round 5) Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin): July 18, 2004 p. 49 (S15) (leading two players after round 5) July 25, 2004 p. 49 (S15) (winner, annotation of Brady - Short, round 9)

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 champions "ol" denotes members of the Irish team at the previous Olympiad (Bled 2002) "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
Débuts and final appearances	Of the Irish players, Tom Healy and Rory Quinn made their Irish championship débuts. Healy, Ray Byrne and John Joyce never played again.
Ratings	FIDE ratings are from the July 2004 list ICU ratings are from the May 2004 list
Discrepancies	The bulletins use a mixture of FIDE ratings from the July and April lists The ICU games archive gives Soh-Jessel (round 4, 13 July) as played on 14 July
Versions	v1.0 (28 Nov 2013): first posted version v1.1 (2 Aug 2015): added player ages; added Paul Wallace club; added extra reference to Gerry Graham's bulletins; sundry formatting changes v1.2 (29 Sep 2015): corrected link to ICU games archive; removed version number of tournament report from playable games; modified format v1.3 (27 Sep 2016): modified format v1.4 (17 May 2017): corrected link to tournament bulletins from annotated playable games v1.5 (21 May 2017): corrected Rory Quinn's FIDE ID in playable games v1.6 (8 Jun 2017): added Eamon Keogh title to playable games; added number of championships played for each player v1.7 (29 Jan 2019): corrected date of Soh - Jessel, round 4 (2004.07.14 → 2004.07.13); modified format of "Event information" note in playable games; modified format of playable games and added extra indexing information in playable game files v1.8 (28 Feb 2021): corrected Brady - Short, round 9, to add missing last ply, matching Gerry Graham's round report and Alexander Baburin's annotation (ICU games archive previously omitted last ply (now corrected)); added entries on "Prize fund", "Entry fee", and "Sponsor" and modified entry on "Time control" in Information → Basic data; removed captions and added Brady - Short in Information → Interesting games; added event announcement and commentary by Colm Daly in Sources and notes → Sources; added references to newspaper articles in Sources and notes → Sources; added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; updated link to ICU games archive in Sources and notes → Notes; added reference to Baburin's annotation of Brady - Short in Annotations; modified URLs to change from http to https and to eliminate redirects
Contributors	David McAlister (who provided Gerry Graham's bulletins); Seán Coffey.