| Sources |
| FIDE records |
Tournament ID 10883 |
| Magazine reports |
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| Tournament flyer |
See the full flyer (4-page pdf) |
| YouTube |
- Colm Daly's "Irish Chess Championships" web site 2007 round 6 report (dead link as of October 2, 2016) has clips of Conquest-Kelly (c. 90 seconds) and the playing hall during the round (c. 20 seconds) (dead link as of January 24, 2019). See note at linked site on content spliced into the middle of the Conquest-Kelly clip.
- The round 7 report (dead link as of October 2, 2016) has clips of P. Short-Orr, round 7 (c. 1 minute) (dead link as of January 24, 2019) and Kelly-Rozentalis, round 7 (c. 2 minutes) (dead link as of January 24, 2019).
- By far the most important clips, however, are in the round 9 report (dead link as of October 2, 2016), with clips comprising the last 15 minutes of the crucial P. Short-Brady game that gave Stephen Brady a share of the championship at the expense of Philip Short. In a major time-scramble and allegro finish, the players stopped recording moves at move 82, so the only record of the remaining 28 moves is in these Youtube clips, in particular the finish (dead link as of January 24, 2019).
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| Web |
- Mark Orr, Irish Chess Championship 2007, ICU web site, July 2007 (report, pgn file)
- Irish Chess Union tournament lists (totals, places, pairings, ratings)
- Colm Daly, 2007 Irish Open Championships, July 2007 (dead link as of October 2, 2016) (pairings, results, ratings, commentary, videos)
- TWIC 661, item 27, July 9, 2007 (via the Wayback Machine) (totals, ratings, places)
- BritBase, 2000-2009, added July 13, 2007 (pgn file)
- BCM News Archive for 2007, July 13, 2007 (dead link as of October 2, 2016) (report, pgn file);
- TWIC 662, July 16, 2007 (via the Wayback Machine) (pgn file)
- Oirsh Chess Championships,Colm Daly, August 9, 2007 (commentary on open format)
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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 previous Olympiad team (Turin 2006)
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
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| Sponsor |
Island Oil and Gas was subsequently acquired by San Leon Energy Plc. |
| Venue |
The Royal Dublin Hotel was also the site of a simultaneous exhibition by Victor Korchnoi on Thursday, February 5, 1981 (+23 =4 –3) (Irish Times, 6 Feb 1981 p. 7 & 7 Feb 1981 p. 20) and of the Telecom Éireann International tournament in March-April 1991 (Irish Times, 25 Mar 1991 p. 4). The hotel closed in December 2008, the building was subsequently demolished (2010?) and the site lies vacant to this day. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the April 2007 list.
- ICU ratings arefrom the May 2007 list.
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| Clubs |
Clubs for Leinster players are from the LCU's records of the 2006-07 season. |
| Title norms |
Brian Kelly missed a GM norm by ½ point. |
| Game count |
229 games were played, not including one game forfeited under the mobile phone rule. 224 game scores are known (220 complete, plus 4 fragments due to illegible scoresheets).
The ICU web site tournament report page and searchable database give 222 games (217 complete, plus 5 fragments; of which one is not noted as a fragment). TWIC 662 gives the same 222 games, without any indication of fragments. The BCM on-line report refers to its attached pgn file as containing "all" 224 games; two of the games included contain no moves. Britbase gives the same file. From the SwissPerfect tournament pairing table listed in the ICU web site tournament report, 229 games were played. Colm Daly's "Irish Chess Championships" site gives in addition the moves of C. Daly-Twomey (round 6) and the full score of O'Connell-C. Daly (round 3), which the ICU and BCM files had only to White's 17th.
The remaining missing games are P. Short-Pert (round 3), Boyle-Kalam (round 3), J. Daly - Große-Honebrink (round 3), Cafolla-Palmer (round 9), and Khonji-Maher (round 9). The remaining game fragments are Pert-O'Connell (round 4), Launders-Boyle (round 6), Loughran-Doyle (round 6), and Soikkeli-Khonji (round 6). (Note: these are noted as incomplete in the ICU and BCM files, but not in the pgn files from Colm Daly's web site or TWIC 662.) The game forfeited under the mobile phone rule was Salter-Kalam (round 1). |
| P. Short-Brady |
The ICU tournament report and on-line database, the Irish Chess Journal, Colm Daly's "Irish Chess Championships" site, TWIC 662, Britbase, the BCM on-line archive and www.365chess.com all give the Philip Short-Stephen Brady last-round game to Black's 82nd move, without indicating that the game score is incomplete. However the Youtube video of the finish on Colm Daly's site (dead link as of January 24, 2019) allows us to reconstruct the full game. Black's 82nd is played at 3:17, and then the remaining moves, with approximate times played, were 83. Bg2 (3:34) e2 (5.43) 84. Kd2 (not shown) Bc4 (5:48) 85. Bh3 (5:58) Kd4 (6:14) 86. Bd7 (6:21) Ke4 (6:34) 87. g6 (6:39) Kf3 (6:53) 88. Ke1 (6:54) Ke3 (6:56) 89. Be8 (7:00) Bd3 (7:09) 90. Bf7 (7:10) Bc2 (7:15) 91. Be8 (7:17) Bb1 (7:25) 92. Bb5 (7:27) Bxg6 (7:29) 93. Bxe2 (7:30) Bc2 (7:37) 94. Bb5 (7:39) Kd4 (7:41) 95. Kd2 (7:43) Bb3 (7:51) 96. Ke1 (7:54) Kc5 (7:55) 97. Kd2 (7:58) Kb4 (7:59) 98. Kc1 (8:05) Bxa4 (8:06) 99. Bd3 (8:07) Bb5 (8:08) 100. Bg6 (8:10) a4 (8:11) 101. Kb2 (8:12) a3+ (8:12) 102. Ka1 (8:13) Bc4 (8:13) 103. Be4 (8:17) g5 (8:17) 104. Bg2 (8:19) g4 (8:20) 105. Ba8 (8:25) g3 (8:25) 106. Bg2 (8:27) Kc3 (8:28) 107. Bh3 (8:30) Kd2 (8:31) 108. Bg2 (8:32) Ke3 (8:33) 109. Bh3 (8:37) Kf2 (8:38) 110. Kb1 (8:40) Be6 (8:41). Although not shown on the video, Philip Short ran out of time seconds later.
92.Bd7!? might have been interesting (92. ... Bxg6? 93. Bf5!=). |
| Game score errors? |
- In Pert-O'Connell, round 4, was Whites 34th really 34. Bd4.? It seems unlikely. Perhaps 34. Bb4 was played instead?
- In Loughran-Uí Laighléis, round 4, why did Black agree the draw? And why did White play 41.Qxe8+?
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| Versions |
- v1.0 (9 Sep 2011): first published version.
- v1.1 (30 May 2012): modified .htm files to add indexing.
- v1.2 (24 Nov 2013): modified layout.
- v1.3 (12 Jun 2014): embedded pgn in .htm files, removed popup games, corrected date error in previous version (where v1.2 was given as 2012 rather than 2013).
- v1.4 (24 Aug 2014): embedded pgn file in each .htm file; removed popup games from "Interesting games" selection; modified sundry minor layout issues.
- v1.5 (1 Oct 2016): corrected links to annotated games in Annotations index page; added links to annotations within games; corrected club affiliations; resolved mismatch reference (label Rozentalis-Glienke, round 8; game Cafolla-Brady, round 5) in "Interesting Games"; added details of concurrent events; added light notes to P. Short-Orr, round 7; updated links and noted dead links; modified format.
- v1.6 (31 May 2017): corrected PlyCount in one game; added number of championships played for each player; added "Key" under Notes; added remaining missing FIDE IDs to pgn embedded in playable games.
- v1.7 (24 Jan 2019): corrected PlyCount in Palmer - J. Daly, round 2 (92 → 93); corrected dates of Khonji - Maher, round 9 and Cafolla - Palmer, round 9 (both 2007.07.06 → 2007.07.08) and in the null (Bye, Did not play) games in rounds 8 and 9; corrected glitch in Notes section on Sources & Notes page (spurious text, followed by mismatch between left and right columns); added prizes on Information page; corrected previous Olympiad (Tromsø 2014 → Turin 2006) and added link to Olympiad team in Sources & Notes; added notes on dead links for irishchesschampionships site and videos on Information and Sources & Notes pages; added hyphens in White/Black tags for Ryan-Rhys Griffiths, Brigitte Große-Honebrink; removed PlyCount "0" from null games; added extra indexing information in playable game files; sundry minor formatting tweaks
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| Contributors |
Seán Coffey |