| Sources |
| FIDE records |
Tournament 293714 |
| Flyer |
Irish Championship 2022 vers 1 (4-page Word document) (document does not display correctly on some browsers; cf. pdf version) |
| ICU web site |
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| Lichess |
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| LiveChessCloud |
The Irish Championship 2022 (live boards) |
| Chess-Results.com |
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| TWIC |
- TWIC 1443, item 8 (all scores after two rounds)
- TWIC 1443 pgn file (24 games, rounds 1-2)
- TWIC 1444, item 28 (all scores)
- TWIC 1444 pgn file (78 games plus two stubs, rounds 3-9) (showing differences, based on possible spurious end-of-game live board moves, in Liu - O'Gorman, round 4, O'Connell - Daly, round 5, Baburin - O'Donnell, round 6, Carroll - O'Gorman, round 7, and Goss - Ivanov, round 9)
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| Newspapers |
- Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin):
- July 3, 2022 p. 7 (announcement of start)
- July 10, 2022 p. 29 (brief report after round 7)
- July 17, 2022 p. 29 (final report, annotation of Kanyamarala - Baburin (round 3))
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| Web |
- Irish Championships 2022, Boards.ie, June 26, 2022 onwards
- 2021 Irish [sic]: Tipping Competition, Boards.ie, July 2, 2022 onwards (tipping competition)
- Irish Championship: Tarun leads after beating Baburin, July 5, 2022, Irish Championship: Tarun still leads after five rounds, July 7, 2022, Tarun Kanyamarala needs a draw to become Irish champion, July 9, 2022, and 17-year-old Tarun Kanyamarala is the new Irish champion, July 10, 2022, Tim Harding, Chess Mail website (via the Wayback Machine)
- IM Tarun Kanyamarala is the 101st Irish Chess Champion, “Nikita”, Chessdom.com, July 12, 2022 (leading final scores and places, though asserting that tie-break applied for third place)
- Irish Championship page, Irish Chess History web site (scores and places)
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| Facebook |
- Irish Chess Union Facebook page:
- Post, July 4, 2022 (photo of Li - Ivabov, round 2, in progress)
- Post, July 9, 2022 (39 photos by Nandita Kanyamarala)
- Post, July 10, 2022 (30 photos by Nandita Kanyamarala, mostly of subsidiary events)
- Post, July 10, 2022 (report aftre round 8 (based on Tim Harding's report at ChessMail.com)
- Post, July 11, 2022 (report, photo of winner with trophy)
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| Twitter |
Tweet, Irish Chess Union, July 11, 2022 |
| YouTube |
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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
- "ol" denotes players selected for the 2022 Olympiad. (Note: Alice O'Gorman was selected for the Women's Olympiad.)
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
In playable games, - "RR" denotes editorial comment
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| Olympiad place |
The winner was guaranteed an automatic Olympiad place for the next Olympiad after the 2022 Olympiad. |
| Débuts |
Ivanov, Keenan, Liu, Mats, and O'Cuilleanain made their Irish championship débuts. |
| Eligibility |
Under rules approved at the 2018 AGM, some players could have the rating requirement ignored provided they were nominated by: a. The ICU Executive (maximum 2 players); or b. The tournament organisers (maximum 1 player). In addition, the Irish Women’s Champion, Irish 50+ and 65+ Champions, and all previous IRL winners of this event were automatically eligible to play in the Irish Championship irrespective of rating.
For this event, the rating requirement was not applied strictly: four players (Goss, Ivanov, Keenan, and Liu) did not qualify by rating. (Murray was added in round 5 as a filler, to avoid assigning byes, in place of Melaugh.)
In addition, IRL registration with FIDE was nominally required, but Diana Mats (Ukraine) took part. The ICU Executive later provided an explanation, in repsonse to a question from Joe Ryan: “Reply received from ICU, seems it was not a mistake but intentional, but only to even up the numbers, and on compassionate grounds as the player is a refugee, and after calculation that said player would not influence the tournament winner.” (Comment, Joe Ryan, Boards.ie, January 5, 2023.) |
| Tie-break |
The tie-break method (see Terms and Conditions) was adopted for the 2018 championship, based on ICU Executive Committee decision, and subsequently ratified at the 2018 AGM for all Irish championships. |
| Grading prizes |
Grading prizes (for "U2100") were awarded based on how much a player's rating performance exceeded his or her rating (using FIDE ratings throughout). Oisín O'Cuilleanain (255 points greater) won the first prize, and Cathal Keenan (237 points greater) won the second.
Keenan and Diane Mats each defaulted in the last round. However, the grading prizes would not have changed under any set of results of their games, if they had played. |
| Anomalies |
The prizegiving ceremony described Tom O'Gorman as finishing 3rd on tie-break, with Colm Daly fourth, and Conor O'Donnell as finishing 5th on tie-break, with Henry Li 6th. But the tournament terms and conditions specified that all prize money was to be split equally amongst tied players, and specified no tie-break for lower places. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 2022 list.
- ICU ratings are from the June 2022 list (last list published before start of event), except for Li, whose rating is from the December 2020 list and Murray, whose rating is from the December 2021 (last lists that included them)
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| Versions |
- v0.1 (6 July 2022): first published version, including results up to the end of round 4 plus round 5 pairings.
- v0.2 (7 July 2022): added round 5 games and round 6 pairings; added full score of Keenan - Flynn, round 4 (previously given to 81W); corrected address of venue in Information → Basic data; added Term and Conditions in Sources and notes → Sources → ICU web site (previously linked but missing); added _tables file in directory and XML file
- v0.3 (8 July 2022): added round 6 games and round 7 pairings; corrected missing link to tournament report from some playable games
- v0.4 (9 July 2022): added round 7 games and round 8 pairings
- v1.0 (11 July 2022): added round 8 games and round 9 games; modified list of Interesting games in Information page; added Entry fee entry in Information → Basic data; added final results for Concurrent events in Information → Basic data; corrected link to FIDE report in Sources and notes → Sources → FIDE records; added link to Lichess pgn file in Sources and notes → Sources; added links to additional updates by Tim Harding at the ChessMail.com web site; added references to four additional posts from ICU Facebook page in Sources and notes → Sources; Modified Ratings entry in Sources and notes → Notes to account for Murray's entry
- v1.1 (12 July 2022): added reference to TWIC 1444 report and games; added reference to July 10 newspaper report; added reference to Chessdom report; added reference to ICU tweet
- v1.2 (23 August 2022): removed note from Information → FIDE rated? and Sources and notes → Sources → FIDE records; added pdf version of flyer in Sources and notes → Sources → Flyer and modified entry; added link to video of closing ceremony in Sources and Notes → Sources → YouTube; modified Sources and notes → Sources → Chess-Results.com to note inclusion of all games; added link to July 17 newspaper article and annotation in Sources and notes → Sources → Newspapers; added "RR" to Sources and notes → Notes → Key
- v1.3 (25 August 2022): added annotations to 17 games; corrected glitch in Sources and notes → Sources → Facebook (one item missing a clickable link); added link to Irish Chess History web site in Sources and notes → Sources
- v1.4 (9 January 2023): corrected time control in Information → Basic data (previously gave 35 second increment instead of 30); added note on Diana Mats entry in Sources and notes → Notes → Eligibility
- v1.5 (7 April 2023): added "Schedule" entry in Information → Basic data; added "Grading prize" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; changed "tiebreak" to "tie-break" throughout
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| Author |
Seán Coffey |