Irish Championship 2023

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Sources and notes

Sources
FIDE records Tournament 335229
Flyer The 102nd Irish Chess Championship 2023 (2-page pdf document)
ICU web site
Lichess
Livechesscloud The 102nd Irish Chess Championship 2023 (live boards)
Chess-Results.com
TWIC
  • TWIC 1500, item 13 (all scores after two rounds); TWIC 1501, item 26 (final scores and places)
  • pgn file (131 games (plus erroneous version of Crowley - O'Connell, round 5, following Sheahan - O'Cuilleanain, round 4, to 64W); no rapid playoff games)
Newspapers
  • Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin):
  • June 25, 2023 p. 27 (notice)
  • August 6, 2023 p. 27 (mention of event in progress)
  • August 20, 2023 p. 27 (final report; annotation of Baburin - Melaugh, round 7)
Web
Facebook
X (Twitter)
  • Jonathan O'Connor:
  • Post, August 8, 2023 (re O'Connor - Sheahan, round 3)
  • Post, August 9, 2023 (re O'Connor - Colllins, round 4)
  • Post, August 12, 2023 (re Flynn - Baburin, round 8)


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 who played in the 2022 (Open) Olympiad (Lara Putar played in the 2022 Women's Olympiad)
  • "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
  • "—" in clubs column denotes Unaffiliated

In playable games,
  • "RR" denotes editorial comment
Olympiad place The winner is guaranteed an automatic Olympiad place for the 2024 (open) Olympiad.
Débuts Brozynski, Crowley, Renji, and Sheahan 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, all players except Lyons met the rating requirement.
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.
Errata Lichess showed for Crowley - O'Connell, round 5, a truncated version of Sheahan - O'Cuiilenanin, round 4, and this suprious game was included in the TWIC 1501 games collection.
Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the August 2023 list.
  • ICU ratings are from the June 2023 list (last list published before start of event), except for Keenan, whose rating is from the December 2022 list
Versions
  • v0.1 (8 August 2023): first published version, including results up to the end of round 4 plus round 5 pairings.
  • v0.2 (9 August 2023): added results of round 5 and round 6 pairings; corrected "v0.1" item in this "Versions" entry; sundry other changes
  • v0.3 (10 August 2023): added results of round 6 and round 7 pairings; corrected Melaugh result from round 6 (½-point bye instead of 0); sundry other changes
  • v0.4 (11 August 2023): added results of round 7 and round 8 pairings; added games to Interesting games and Annotations index; corrected Duffy result from round 6 (½-point bye instead of 0); corrected Débuts entry on this page to refer to this event; added winners of Weekday Open
  • v0.5 (12 August 2023): added results of round 8 and round 9 pairings; sundry other changes
  • v1.0 (13 August 2023): added results of round 9, and outcome of playoff match
  • v1.1 (20 August 2023): corrected round 6 result of Duffy (½-point bye &#mdash; full point bye), and modified scores and places throughout; corrected C. Nolan - Renji, round 4, to delete spurious extra ply at the end: 70. Kxb6 immediately ended the game; added notes to Leon Putar - Baburin, round 1 and Flynn - Baburin, round 8, and modified notes of O'Donnell - Crowley, round 9; added links to several annotations and updated Annotations index; added link to photo of first rapid playoff game in progress; added link to ICU ratings report; added reference to TWIC final report and games collection; added additional web and other references; corrected "Games played" item in Information → Basic data (131 → 134); deleted reference to faulty Lichess rendition of Crowley - O'Connell, round 5; sundry minor typographical adjustments
  • v1.2 (23 August 2023): added reference to Sunday Independent article of August 20, 2023 and annotation of Baburin - Melaugh; corrected typo in notes to Leon Putar - Baburin, round 1; replaced (incorrect) link to Lichess game file in Sources and notes → Sources → Lichess with reference to local copy; corrected sundry minor typos
  • v1.3 (28 August 2023): corrected annotation of O'Donnell - Crowley, round 9 (after 24... c5, Black is winning, not White as previously given), and slightly extended notes at 15W
  • v1.4 (7 October 2023): corrected link to downloadable game in playable games; added link to tournament report from playable games
  • v1.5 (8 October 2023): added second rapid playoff game (previously omitted inadvertently); corrected link to photo in first rapid playoff game
Author Seán Coffey


IRLchess: Irish chess history & records.
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