[Tournament "Cork Masters 2025"]

[Heading "Information"]
[Dates "October 3-5, 2025"]
[City "Cork"]
[Venue "Clayton Hotel Cork City, 10 Lapp’s Quay, Cork T12 RD6E"]
[Organiser "Mark Watkins"]
[Chief Arbiter "Mark Watkins"]
[Deputy Arbiters "Simon Lawrence, Andrew Kelly"]
[Players participating "29"]
[Games played "69"]
[Competition format "5-round Swiss"]
[Eligibility "Rating 1800+ FIDE or, if no FIDE rating, ICU"]
[Tie-break "For first place: blitz (3+2), best of three, between top two players
	under Median Buchholz; prize money split evenly."]
[Time control "90 minutes for all moves with a 30 second increment from move
	1"]
[Schedule "Round 1 (Friday): 7.30pm; rounds 2 and 3 (Saturday): 10.00am and
	3.00pm; rounds 4 and 5 (Sunday): 9.00am and 2.00pm"]
[Default time "30 minutes"]
[FIDE rated? "Yes (<a
	href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=435511"
	target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ID 435511</a>)"]
[Prizes "Unknown"]
[Entry fee "&euro;60 (&euro;50 early)"]
[Concurrent events "<ul class="concurrent">
	<li><a href="https://s1.chess-results.com/tnr1246473.aspx?lan=1&art=0&SNode=S0"
		target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cork Congress Majors 2025</a>,
		same dates; 1st-2nd Aiden Thomas Boby, Ross Du Berry (tie-break unknown)</li>
	<li><a href="https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1246474.aspx?lan=1&art=4&SNode=S0"
		target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cork Congress Minors 2025</a>,
		same dates; 1st Ryan Kerrigan</li>
	<li><a href="https://chess-results.com/tnr1266574.aspx?lan=1&art=4"
		target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cork Congress Blitz2025</a>,
		October 4, 2025; 1st Bryan Chan</li>
	</ul>"]
[Photos "<br><img src="album-d459874977-downloads/3 Playing Area.jpg" width=390><br><br>Brendan O'Gorman
	posted <a href="album-d459874977-downloads">51 photos</a> on <a
	href="https://brendanogorman.smugmug.com/Chess/2025/Cork-Chess-Congress-2025?fbclid=IwY2xjawNSbaJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgJkBuPxQ6Bd81YvgaVSuOKqZAb6HxNpLh-ZSxUOoW4RWo5RE6wuzpvXH2EW_aem_azACohyOiSBfBpo5q2JtAQ"
	target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SmugMug</a>.<br><br>
	Above: playing hall (<a href="album-d459874977-downloads/3 Playing Area.jpg"
	target="_blank">click</a> for full size)."]
[Games available "30, of which at least 2 incomplete"]
	
[Heading "Tournament review"]
[Review "<blockquote><center>None available.</center></blockquote>"]

[Heading "Interesting games"]
[Games
	"62" "64" "21"
	]
	
[Heading "Sources"]
[FIDE records "Tournament <a
	href="https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_information.phtml?event=435511"
	target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">435511</a>"]
[Flyer "<a href="Cork_Congress_2025_Flyer.pdf" target="_blank">Flyer</a> (1-page pdf)"]
[ICU web site "<ul class="concurrent">
	<li><a href="https://www.icu.ie/news/3724" target="_blank" rel="noopener
		noreferrer">Announcement</a>, January 9, 2024,
		plus five further news items</li>
	<li><a href="https://www.icu.ie/events/1968" target="_blank" rel="noopener
		noreferrer">Event page</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://ratings.icu.ie/tournaments/2929" target="_blank"
		rel="noopener noreferrer">Rating report</a></li>
	</ul>"]
[Cork C.C. web site "<a href="Cork%20Congress%20Rules.pdf" target="_blank">Tournament rules</a>
	(4-page pdf)"]
[Livechesscloud "<a href="https://lichess.org/broadcast/cork-congress-2025-masters/round-1/7G0cEdID#boards"
	target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cork Congress 2025 Masters</a> (live boards)"]
[Chess-Results.com "<ul class="concurrent">
	<li><a href="https://chess-results.com/tnr1246470.aspx?lan=1&art=4"
		target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pairings &amp; results</a>,
		etc.</li>
	</ul>"]

[Heading "Notes"]
[Ratings "<ul class="concurrent">
	<li>FIDE ratings are from the October 2025 list.</li>
	<li>ICU ratings are from the October 2025 list.</li>
	</ul>"]
[Missing detail "The competition rules specified a blitz playoff for first. The results
	of this playff, if it took place, is unknown."]
[Versions "<ul class="concurrent">
	<li>v1.0 (8 Oct 2025): first published version</li>
	</ul> "]
[Author "Se&aacute;n Coffey"]

[Heading "Annotations"]
[Games
	"21"(This report)
	"61"(This report)
	]