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Category Archives: Tournaments
City of Dublin championships 2010: Masters
The City of Dublin Masters 2010 has been added to the tournaments page. 14 players, 6 rounds, 39 games (of which only 8 are available, unfortunately), 1st Nick Pert.
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10th Gonzaga Classic 2011: Masters
We’ve added the Gonzaga Masters 2011 to the tournament page. (4th-6th February 2011, 17 players, 5 rounds, 39 games of which complete or partial scores for 32 are available, 1st David Fitzsimons.)
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Ulster Championship 2002
The plan here at IRLchess is to present as much information as possible about as many Irish chess tournaments as possible (and a bit more besides). Sean suggested to me that the Ulster Championship played 27-30 December 2002 would be … Continue reading
From the 2011 Irish championship
Administrative note: post reformatted, 20 August 2012.
The 2011 Irish championship was hugely enjoyable and a credit to the players and organisers. Is it a trick of the imagination, due to the presence of live games and almost instant availability of game scores, or was the chess really more entertaining than usual? Perhaps a mixture of both?
Here is a finish with a timeless appeal:
Black now played 49 … h3. How do you evaluate this move and the resulting position with best play? Was there anything better?
See the solution. Continue reading
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And they’re off …
The 2011 Irish championship has started. There is some excellent live coverage available from the organisers, the highly reputed e2e4 Chess, including live games for the first time ever in an Irish championship.
We gather all the information we have in a tournament report, which we’ll update continually while the championship unfolds.
July 10: Stephen Brady wins the Irish championship for the 7th time. Rory Quinn wins the weekender. July11: Eric Bennett earlier won the intermediate. Mark Finnigan won the junior. Continue reading
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Irish championship 2010
The 2011 Irish championship begins two weeks from tomorrow. To whet the appetite, we have a report on last year’s championship (1st Alex Lopez) on the Irish championships page.
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