Irish Championship 2011 information

Irish Championship 2011

Information

Irish Championship 2011
Dates:	2^nd-10^th July 2011
City:	Dublin
Venue:	Brennan Green Isle Hotel, Naas Road, Newlands Cross, Dublin 22
Chief Arbiter:	Seán Hewitt, e2e4 Chess
Deputy Arbiter:	Rory Delaney
Players participating:	26
Games played:	115
Competition format:	9-round Swiss. Rating requirement 1900+, either FIDE or ICU; not enforced rigidly. Open to non-Irish players but only Irish players eligible for title of Irish champion.
Tie break:	Tie break would apply for title of Irish champion in case of a tie between three or more players. Otherwise none. A rapidplay playoff would apply for the single guaranteed place on the next Olympiad team.
Time control:	100 minutes for 40 moves followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the remaining moves, with 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move starting from first move
References:	Sources and notes. If you have any other documents, reports, references, biographical information, annotations or (in particular) photos, please .

See Jim Olney's tournament report in the Irish Chess Journal.

Extended complications over the entire board:
Josse, Mark – Moran, Stephen   ½ - ½

White emerges from complications with a won game but can't quite convert:
Cafolla, Peter – Short, Philip   ½ - ½

Two knights vs. rook ending:
Freeman, Gordon – O'Connor, Jonathan   0 - 1

Black sacrifices the exchange for complications but his king runs into trouble in the NQE:
Courtney, John – Cafolla, Peter   1 - 0

Black thought taking the pawn was safe; it wasn't:
Short, Philip – Josse, Mark   1 - 0

This one wasn't safe either:
McCabe, Darren – Twomey, Pat   1 - 0

Black has four passed pawns for a knight that's trapped, but it's not enough:
Brady, Stephen – O'Connell, Gerard   1 - 0

Good knight, bad bishop, intricate breakthrough:
O'Connor, Jonathan – Courtney, John   1 - 0

A complicated struggle with sustained White pressure:
Prizant, Michael – Benson, Oisín P.   1 - 0

White gripped in a pythonesque hold, slowly squeezed:
O'Connor, Jonathan – Redmond,John P.   0 - 1

White loses material quickly, overextends in trying to recover, gets massacred:
Freeman, Gordon – Prizant, Michael   0 - 1

French Winawer, poisoned pawn, many complications:
McCabe, Darren – Short, Philip   ½ - ½

The game of the tournament: a critical encounter between two many-time champions:
Daly, Colm – Brady, Stephen   0 - 1

An eventful struggle:
Janusaitis, Mindaugas – Keogh, Eamon   1 - 0

Sacrificial king-side attack crashes through:
King, Melvyn – Reynolds, Pat   1 - 0

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