| Sources |
| Flyer |
Flyer (via Herbert Scarry) |
| Brochure |
The 1994 Irish Chess Championships (8 page brochure, 4 page pdf file) (via Herbert Scarry) |
| Irish Chess Journal |
- Irish Championships 1994, Herbert Scarry, vol. 6, no. 4, August-September 1994, pp. 16-22 (tournament report) (see also cover) (via David McAlister)
- Armagh Revisited, vol. 6, no. 5, October 1994, pp. 19-22 (via Herbert Scarry)
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| ICU web site |
Scores and places; games archive (89 games) |
| TICA |
Irish Men's Championships, Mark Orr, TICA (The Irish Chess Archive), 2001 (via the Wayback Machine) (final scores) |
| Newspapers |
- The Anglo-Celt (Eamon Gaffney):
- "Armagh to host 1994 Irish chess championships", June 30, 1994 p. 21
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- Belfast Telegraph:
- "It's eyes down for check mates", July 15, 1994 p. 15 (photos (by Lesley Doyle) of four players (none from Championship))
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- Cork Examiner (Jim Olney):
- "Three share lead in chess championship", July 12, 1994 p. 21
- "Orr takes lead", July 14, 1994 p. 24
- "Orr's lead cut", July 16, 1994 p. 22
- "First Irish title for Orr", July 19, 1994 p. 18
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- Evening Echo (Jim Olney):
- "Championships set for Armagh", July 5, 1994 p. 13 (prizes, entry fee)
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| Notes |
| Key |
In "Pairings & results", - "(age)" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year (irrespective of whether the birthday fell before, during, or after the event)
- "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
- "ol" denotes members of the previous Olympiad team (Manila 1992)
In playable games, - "RR" denotes editorial comment
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| Byes avoided |
“David Blair selflessly withdrew from the Weekender to even up the numbers in the Senior” (ICJ p. 18). |
| Clubs |
- Club affiliations are from the ICU rating list published in the ICJ, vol. 5, no. 4, October-November 1993, pp. 7-16, and the following sources:
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- Orr: The First Nine Years, Wandering Dragons C.C. web site
- Kelly, Pinkerton: Belfast Telegraph, June 27, 1994 p. 15
- Ó Cinnéide: Evening Echo, December 14, 1993 p. 13 (Douglas)
- Clarke: Belfast Telegraph, December 31, 1993 p. 37
- Ryan: Cork Examiner, April 15, 1994 p. 13
- O'Donovan: Evening Echo, March 29, 1994 p. 13
- McCarthy: St. Benildus C.C. roll of honour
- Devenney, Adrian and Stephen Gillen, Nicholson: David McAlister, via email
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- Note: Daly's affiliation is given as Celbridge in the Cork Examiner, April 15, 1994 p. 13. Ó Cinnéide played for Douglas in the European Club Championship in 1993, but is listed as affiliated with Rathmines in the rating list published in October-November 1993.
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| Errata |
Jim Olney's July 19 column gives this as Mark Orr's first Irish title. In fact he shared the 1985 title with Eugene Curtin. |
| Brian Kelly interview |
In a 1996 interview with Mel Ó Cinnéide, Brian Kelly commented on this championship. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 1994 list
- ICU ratings are from the list (part 1 and part 2) published in the August-September 1994 issue of the Irish Chess Journal (pp. 11-12) (via David McAlister)
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| Tiebreak |
The instructions from the ICU to controllers and arbiters (provided by Herbert Scarry) specify that two tied players would share title, and that for a tie between three or more, the ICU 1990 rules would apply to produce a single champion. These rules, in relevant part, were:
- "i. Buchholz Score: the sum of the final scores of the player's opponents;
- ii. Median Buchholz score: the sum of the final score of the player's opponents, excluding the highest and the lowest of these;
- iii. the individual results between the tied players, but only if they have both or all played each other;
- iv. the sum of opponent's ratings, excluding the lowest of these. If still tied, eliminate the rating of the next lowest rated opponent(s) until a decision is possible.
- In the determination of the Buchholz scores (a) and (b) above, each player's score is adjusted where applicable as follows: 1/2 point is awarded for each unplayed player game whether this is because of a bye, forfeit, or unplayed round because of the withdrawal of a participant. A player awarded a bye counts the bye as an opponent who has drawn his game in every round."
(cf. ICU Tournament Regulations, ICU web site, April 2010 [apparently unchanged since 1990] (via the Wayback Machine) |
| Versions |
- v1.0 (28 April 2021): first published version
- v1.1 (2 May 2021): many changes based on information provided by David McAlister, for which many thanks: deleted spurious Devenney - Nicholson game in round 9 and corrected their final scores, with corresponding changes in Pairings & results, Crosstable, Round 9 report, and Information → Basic data; noted Orr's loss against Ó Cinnéide in round 8 was on time; added ICU ratings in Pairings & results and in playable games, with links and background in Sources and notes → Notes, and added the full 1994 list in the directory; added ICJ tournament report and issue cover to directory and corresponding links in Information → Tournament review and Sources and notes → Sources; added notes based on that review to A. Gillen - Clarke, round 4, Carton - Kelly, round 5, Clarke - S. Gillen, round 8, Kelly - Ó Cinnéide, round 9, and Orr - A. Gillen, round 9, and added the first two to the list in Information → Interesting games; added extra variation, starting with 37. Nf5, in Orr - A. Gillen, round 9; in Information → Basic data, added "Armagh Together" in "Sponsors" and added winners in "Concurrent events"; in Sources and notes → Notes, added entry on Blair's volunteering to play to even the numbers; added club affiliations for Devenney, Adrian and Stephen Gillen, and Nicholson; corrected typo in Orr's club; and, last but not least, added David McAlister as Contributor!
- v1.2 (12 May 2021): many further changes based on information provided by Herbert Scarry, for which many thanks: added Time control, Tie break, expanded Eligibility, and full Prize fund in Information → Basic data; added further ICJ report to directory and corresponding links in Information → Tournament review and Sources and notes → Sources; added notes based on that report to Daly - O'Shaughnessy, round 7, and Daly - Clarke, round 9, and noted that source for the notes to Daly - O'Donovan, round 5; added Entry form in Sources and notes → Sources; added Herbert Scarry as Contributor; also added Kelly - Ó Cinnéide, round 9, to Annotations index (inadvertently omitted in previous version)
- v1.3 (20 Apr 2022): modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; added file irlch1994_tables.txt in directory; added xml directory and file irlch1994_tables.xml
- v1.4 (21 June 2022): changed Ó Cinnéide club affiliation from Douglas to Douglas/Rathmines, and Daly's from Celbridge to Collegians, and added club affiliations for Carton, Joyce, and Blair, based on ICU rating list published in the ICJ, vol. 5., no. 4, October-November 1993, pp. 7-16; changed "age" to "(age)" in Sources and notes → Notes → Key; sundry editorial tweaks
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| Contributors |
Seán Coffey, David McAlister, Herbert Scarry |
| Author |
Seán Coffey |