Irish Championship 2006

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Sources and notes

Sources
Scoresheets Gerard O'Connell provided scans of all scoresheets, for which many thanks.
FIDE records Tournament ID 4397
ICU web site
Irish Chess Journal ICJ, August 2006, pp. 6-13
Newspapers
  • Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin)
  • July 16, 2006 p. 53 (Sport 15) (brief report after round 5)
  • July 23, 2006 p. 53 (Sport 15) (report, annotation of end of Daly - Jessel, round 3)
Video Stephen Brady comments (warning: poor sound quality) (video removed as of October 2, 2024)
Posts Irish championship 2006, IRLchess, October 24, 2011


Notes
Key In "Pairings & results",
  • "(age)" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year, regardless of whether the birthday fell before, during, or after the event
  • "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions, via circled dot for defending champion, dot otherwise
  • "ol" denotes members of the Irish team at the previous Olympiad (Turin 2006)
  • "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
  • "—" in clubs column denotes unaffiliated
Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the July 2006 list
  • ICU ratings are from the May 2006 list
Clubs
  • Club affiliations are from the ICU tournament report, and the Leinster Chess Union web pages for 2005-06, except for Stephen Jessel's
  • Stephen Jessel's club affiliation is from Mon cht de France d'jeuns (2), Christophe Bouton, Échecs 64 et Dames 100 web site, May 4, 2006
Tie-break
  • The ICU's notes to arbiters for 1994 specified the tie-break system for that year as a shared title if exactly two players tied, but automatic tie-breaks to produce a single winner in case of a tie bwteen three or more players. The automatic tie-breaker was as defined by the ICU 1990 tournament rules:
    • "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)). It seems highly likely that this tie-break system was in use from 1990 to 2010, inclusive.
Forfeit Fox-O'Leary (round 6) was forfeited by Black under the FIDE mobile phone rule.
Débuts and final appearances Killian Delaney made his Irish championship début. All players went on to play further Irish championships.
Ages The median age, as shown in Pairings & results ("(age)") was 46.
Anomalies
  • In the FIDE tournament report, games against Boyle and O'Leary do not seem to have been counted. O'Leary was unrated, but why were games against Boyle not counted? He was rated in both the April and July 2006 FIDE lists.
  • The scoresheets had the heading "86th Irish Championship". But as currently numbered (including the four pre-ICU championships of 1865, 1886, 1889, and 1892) it was the 85th, and it was the 82nd championship held under the auspices of the ICU. Where did the extra championship come from? (Did the organisers count the First ICA Masters, Dublin 1885, as an Irish Championship?)
Versions
  • v1.0 (24 Oct 2011): first published version
  • v1.1 (31 May 2012): added indexing lines to .htm files
  • v1.2 (25 Nov 2013): modified layout
  • v1.3 (23 Aug 2014): removed popup games; embedded pgn files in each .htm file; made sundry minor layout modifications
  • v1.4 (30 Sep 2015): corrected club affiliations of Cafolla, Daly, and Jessel; added player ages; added concurrent events; modified layout
  • v1.5 (27 Sep 2016): modified layout
  • v1.6 (31 May 2017): corrected plycounts in two games; corrected typo in Concurrent events on "Information" page; added number of championships played by each player
  • v1.7 (29 Jan 2019): corrected PlyCount in MacElligott - Brady, round 2 (116 → 113); deleted PlyCount "0" in the two Cafolla - Daly games; corrected link to ICU games archive; modified format of playable games and added extra indexing information in playable game files
  • v2.0 (18 May 2026):
    • added the scores of the remaining 38 games, from the original scoresheets
    • in Information → Basic data, replaced Wikipedia link with St. Benildus web site
    • ... modified Tie-break item, and added item in Sources and notes → Notes
    • ... added Schedule, Default time, Prizes, Entry fee and Games available items
    • ... in Concurrent events, corrected link to U1600 (which previously pointed to the Open Weekender), corrected Mkrtchyan's club affiliation in two places, and added links to archived versions
    • ... Removed "Missing information" item
    • in Information → Tournament review, updated link to John Healy's tournament report
    • ... added archived version of same report
    • in Interesting games, removed game captions
    • ... added Fitzsimons - Keogh, round 9
    • in Pairings & results, changed "age" to "(age)", and modified the explanation in Sources and notes → Notes → Key
    • ... added different symbol for defending champion in "x-ch" column
    • ... added club affiliation and "(age)" for Matt O'Leary
    • ... added spacing between score groups
    • ... modified layout
    • in round reports, changed date format
    • added annotations to games and added Annotations index
    • in Sources and notes → Sources, added "Scoresheets" item
    • ... moved "Web" item upwards, renamed as "ICU web site", added Calendar sub-item, and added archived versions of other items; updated link to non-archived version of John Healy's report
    • ... in Newspapers, added references to Sunday Independent articles
    • ... in Video, added note that video has been removed
    • ... added Posts item
    • in Sources and notes → Notes, modified "x-ch" description in "Key"
    • ... added Clubs item
    • ... added Tie-break item
    • ... added "Débuts and final appearances" item
    • ... added Ages item
    • ... extra item within Anomalies on the numbering of the championship
    • ... added Gerard O'Connell to list of Contributors
    • ... added Author item
    • 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 irlch2006_tables.txt in directory
    • added xml directory and file irlch2006_tables.xml
    • added link to individual pgn files from playable games
    • changed http to https where possible
    • made sundry minor editorial adjustments
Contributors Gerard O'Connell, Seán Coffey
Author Seán Coffey


IRLchess: Irish chess history & records.
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