| Irish Championship 2007 |
[ Information | Pairings & results | Crosstable | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | Openings | Annotations ]
[ Basic data | Tournament review | Interesting games]
| Irish Championship 2007 | |
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| Dates | June 30-July 8, 2007 |
| City | Dublin |
| Venue | Royal Dublin Hotel, 40 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin 1 |
| Organiser and Arbiter | Michael Crowe |
| Players participating | 52 |
| Games played | 229 |
| Competition format | 9-round Swiss. Open to non-Irish players and to players rated under 1900 (both being changes to the usual qualification rules). |
| Tie break | Only Irish players were eligible for the title of Irish champion. Tie-break would apply for title in case of a tie between three or more players; otherwise none. |
| Time control | 40 moves in two hours, 20 moves in one hour, and 30 minutes for remaining moves |
| Sponsor | Island Oil & Gas |
| Prizes | 1st €2500; 2nd €1500; 3rd €1000; 4th €600; best scores by Irish players apart from these €500, €300;, €200; best score by Irish plauer under 18 €200 |
| Extra information |  The ICU web site report has 11 photos, and there are 5 video clips plus 3 more photos at Colm Daly's irishchesschampionships site (dead link as of January 24, 2019). |
| Missing data, etc. | Game scores for the remaining games |
| Concurrent events |
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| Games available | 224 (including 4 incomplete) |
| References | Sources and notes. If you have any other documents, reports, references, biographical information, annotations or (in particular) photos, please . |
See Mark Orr's tournament report on the ICU web site, Colm Daly's round-by-round updates at irishchesschampionships.com (dead link as of January 24, 2019), and the article by John Healy and Mark Orr in the Irish Chess Journal, September 2007, pp. 6-12. |
| IRLchess: Irish chess history & records. |
| Version 1.7, published 24 January 2019. Comments/corrections? . |
| Download pgn file. |