| Ulster Championship 2015 |
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| Ulster Championship 2015 | |
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| Dates | August 21-23, 2015 |
| City | Belfast |
| Venue | Europa Hotel, Great Victoria Street, Belfast BT2 7AP |
| Organisers | Ross Harris, Damien Cunningham, Brendan Jamison, Adrian Dornford-Smith (see notes) |
| Tournament Director | Ross Harris |
| Chief Arbiters | David Houston, Damien Cunningham, Ross Harris (see notes) |
| Assistant Arbiters | Ross Harris, Brendan Jamison (see notes) |
| Players participating | 12 |
| Games played | 34 |
| Competition format | 6-round Swiss |
| Eligibility | Open to all but only Ulster-born or -resident players eligible for title of Ulster champion; rating over 1700 |
| Tie break | Tie-break would apply for both title and prizes: Median Buchholz followed by Buchholz, followed by most wins, followed by progressive scores |
| Time control | 75 minutes for all moves, plus a 15 second increment from move 1 |
| FIDE rated? | No |
| Games available | 17 |
| Extra information |  David McAlister's report (see Tournament review below) contains 6 photos. In addition he took another 11, available here. Above: play in progress during round 6. The Ballynafeigh blog tournament report (see Tournament review below) contained a further 14 photos and the report on the UCU web site (see Tournament reviews below) has 13. |
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| Sponsor | Europa Hotel |
| References | Sources and notes. If you have any other documents, reports, references, biographical information, annotations or (in particular) photos, please . |
See the tournament report at the UCU web site, David McAlister's tournament report at Ulster Chess Chronicle, August 24, 2015 (originally at NI Chess Blogspot), and the Ballynafeigh blog report, ca. August 30, 2015 (via the Wayback Machine) (scroll down). |
| IRLchess: Irish chess history & records. |
| Version 1.7, published 22 August 2020. Comments/corrections? . |
| Download pgn file. |