Irish Championship 2018

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Sources and notes

Sources
FIDE records Tournament 193286
Flyer Irish Championships 2018 (4-page pdf)
ICU web site
Chess24.com Irish Championship (18 games, with engine analysis, from round 1; pairings for round 2)
Live boards The top 5 boards in round 3 and top 10 boards in rounds 4-9 were shown on live boards
Chess-Results.com
Chief Arbiter Ivan Baburin supplied 9 games, not otherwise available
TWIC TWICs 1239 (report (scores after round 2) and 1240 (report (final scores and game collection (151 games)))
Chess Today
  • CT-216 (6482), 7 August 2018 (annotation of Short - Baburin, round 2)
  • CT-227 (6490), 15 August 2018 (report, leading scores and places; annotations of Daly - Lopez, round 2, Jessel - Bourached, round 6; puzzle on Carroll - Li, round 3
Newspapers
  • Irish Examiner (Jim Olney):
  • August 18, 2018 p. 55/161 (final report; score of Lopez - Moran, round 8)
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  • Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin):
  • July 29, 2018 p. 27 (announcement)
  • August 5, 2018 p. 27 (preview)
  • August 12, 2018 p. 27 (interim report after round 7; annotation of Wall - Lopez, round 6)
  • August 19, 2018 p. 29 (report of final result; annotation of Murray - Moran, round 9)
Web
Facebook


Notes
Key In "Pairings & results",
  • "age" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year (even if the birthday fell after the event)
  • "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
  • "ol" denotes members of the following Olympiad team (Batumi 2018)
  • "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
Débuts and final appearances Peter Carroll, Mihailo Manojlovic, Conor E. Murphy, Zalan Nemeth, Conor Nolan, Dermot Nolan, Alice O'Gorman, and Stephen Rush made their Irish championship débuts. It was the final appearance of five-time champion Philip Short, who died at the end of the same month. The other players who have not played subsequently (i.e., up to and including the 2021 championship) are Bourached, Freeman, Jessel, Keogh, Manojlovic, Nemeth, Conor and Dermot Nolan, O'Neill, Rush, and Wall.
IM norm David Murray recorded his first IM norm; this was the second ever recorded in an Irish championship, following Philip Short's the previous year
Olympiad place The winner was guaranteed an automatic Olympiad place for the 2020 Olympiad.
Eligibility Under a motion passed at the 2014 AGM, a large number of players could be nominated without any required minimum rating: (1) 3 players by the ICU Executive; (2) 3 players, who must be under 18, by the Junior Officer; (3) 1 player by each Provinical Delegate; (4) 1 player by the tournament organisers. Under a second motion, also passed at the 2014 AGM, the Irish Women's Champion, Irish Veteran's Champion, Irish Intermediate Champion, and Irish Open champion were all eligible to play regardless of rating.
Tie break "Irish Championship Tie-Break to decide Irish Champion
If exactly two players tie, the title shall be awarded to the winner of their individual game, if any. If their individual game was drawn, or if they did not play each other, there shall be a playoff; a 2-game rapid match with each player having one white and one black.
A. If three or more players tie, then the title shall be awarded to the player, if any, who achieved a greater score in games amongst the tied players than could be achieved by any other tied player under any set of results of unplayed games.
B. If step 2A does not determine a champion, there shall be a playoff 2-game rapid match between the two players (even if one of these players won the individual game between the two) who achieved the highest scores in games amongst the tied players, counting all unplayed games as draws.
The time control for these playoff rapid games should be 15 minutes + 10 second increment.
Any resulting tie for a place in the playoff match shall be resolved by drawing of lots, or, at the discretion of the arbiter, by blitz games.
If the players are still tied following their rapid match, the arbiter may choose to continue the rapid-match for another 2 games (with one white each) or move to blitz games or have a one-game draw-odds rapid game."
(Change from 2017 system.)
Overlapping events The British Championship 2018 ran July 28-August 5, thus overlapping the Irish Championship. Conor Murphy played in the first 7 rounds of the British.
Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the August 2018 list.
  • ICU ratings are from the July 2018 list.
Versions
  • v1.0 (20 Dec 2019): first published version.
  • v1.1 (26 Apr 2020): added David Murray's norm in Pairings & results (column previously present but norm missing); corrected links in Sources and notes → Sources → Facebook; modified description of tie break system in Information → Basic data ("Direct Encounter" → "Head-to-head result(s)"), since FIDE's definition of Direct Encounter only applies if all the tied players have played each other
  • v1.2 (30 Mar 2021): removed duplicate link to English Chess Forum thread in Sources and notes → Sources → Web; added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; corrected glitch in final note in Scott - Butler, round 7; added 20 games to Annotations index (previously only external annotations were listed, whereas now any game containing notes with moves is listed); modified URLs to change http to https where possible
  • v1.3 (28 Sep 2021): added entry in Pairings & results indicating David Murray's IM norm (inadvertently removed in a previous update); updated "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes to reflect changes to final appearances resulting from 2021 championship; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data
Contributors Seán Coffey, Ivan Baburin


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