[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Whelan, Niall"]
[Black "Healy, John"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1582"]
[BlackElo "1919"]
[WhiteICU "1364"]
[BlackICU "1868"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2500809"]
[BlackFideId "2500965"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[ECO "B28"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "O'Kelly variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 3. a4 e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Bd3 d5 7. e5 Nfd7 8.
Qe2 Qc7 9. Nxe6 fxe6 10. Qh5+ Kd8 11. Bg5+ Be7 12. Bxe7+ Kxe7 13. Qg5+ Kf8
14. Qf4+ Kg8 15. O-O Qxe5 16. Qh4 Qf6 17. Qg3 Nc6 18. Nd2 Nde5 19. Be2 Nd4
20. Bd1 Bd7 21. f4 Ng6 22. c3 Nc6 23. Bg4 h5 24. Bh3 h4 25. Qf3 Rf8 26. f5
Nge5 27. Qe3 exf5 28. Rf4 g5 29. Rf2 g4 30. Re1 gxh3 31. gxh3 Rh7 32. Rg2+
Rg7 33. Re2 Rf7 34. Qc5 Be6 35. b4 Rxg2+ 36. Rxg2+ Rg7 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "O'Gorman, Alice"]
[Black "O'Sullivan, Tom"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1868"]
[BlackElo "1659"]
[WhiteICU "1833"]
[BlackICU "1360"]
[WhiteClub "Dun Laoghaire"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2508214"]
[BlackFideId "2504375"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[ECO "B45"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. a3 Bc5 7. Nb3 Be7
8. Bf4 e5 9. Be3 d6 10. f3 O-O 11. Qd2 a6 12. g4 Be6 13. O-O-O Rc8 14. Kb1
Qc7 15. Nd5 Bxd5 16. exd5 Nb8 17. h4 Rfd8 18. h5 Bf8 19. g5 Ne8 20. g6 f6
21. gxh7+ Kh8 22. Bh3 Nd7 23. Bf5 Ra8 24. h6 b6 25. Bxd7 Rxd7 26. Rdg1 f5
27. hxg7+ Nxg7 28. Bh6 Rf7 29. Nc1 Be7 30. Qg2 Bf6 31. Ne2 f4 32. Nc3 Nf5
33. Qg8+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Deneher, Jimmy"]
[Black "Bennett, Eric"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1730"]
[BlackElo "1829"]
[WhiteICU "1314"]
[BlackICU "1814"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509008"]
[BlackFideId "2501384"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[ECO "A41"]
[Opening "Queen's Pawn"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d6 2. e3 Nd7 3. Bd3 e5 4. c3 g6 5. Nf3 f5 6. dxe5 dxe5 7. Bc2 Ngf6 8.
O-O Bd6 9. Nbd2 e4 10. Nd4 Nc5 11. N2b3 Bxh2+ 12. Kxh2 Ng4+ 13. Qxg4 fxg4
14. Nxc5 Qd6+ 15. g3 Qxc5 16. Bxe4 O-O 17. Bd2 Qe5 18. Bg2 c5 19. Ne2 Rb8
20. Rad1 b6 21. c4 Bb7 22. Bc3 Qh5+ 23. Kg1 Bxg2 24. Kxg2 Qf5 25. Nf4 Qe4+
26. Kg1 Qxc4 27. a3 Rf7 28. Rd6 Re8 29. Rfd1 Kf8 30. R1d2 Qe4 31. Nd5 Qb1+
32. Kg2 Qf5 33. Nf6 Rc8 34. R2d5 Qf3+ 35. Kg1 Re8 36. Rd2 Rb8 37. Nd7+ Rxd7
38. Rxd7 Rb7 39. R7d5 h5 40. Rd6 Kf7 41. Rf6+ Qxf6 42. Bxf6 Kxf6 43. Kg2 b5
44. f3 gxf3+ 45. Kxf3 Ke5 46. e4 c4 47. Rd5+ Ke6 48. Kf4 b4 49. a4 Rc7 50.
Ke3 c3 51. bxc3 bxc3 52. Rd1 c2 53. Rc1 Ke5 54. Kd3 g5 55. Ke3 h4 56. gxh4
gxh4 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Peoples, Jonathon"]
[Black "Murray, Benjamin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[WhiteICU "1762"]
[BlackICU "1299"]
[WhiteClub "Ballinasloe"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509520"]
[BlackFideId "2512963"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O
8. Nge2 Re8 9. Qc2 c6 10. O-O Nf8 11. f3 h6 12. Bh4 Ne6 13. Rfd1 a6 14.
Rac1 Qb6 15. Bf2 Rd8 16. a3 a5 17. Kh1 Qa7 18. e4 dxe4 19. fxe4 Ng4 20. Bg1
Bg5 21. d5 Be3 22. h3 Qb8 23. hxg4 Bxc1 24. dxe6 Bg5 25. exf7+ Kxf7 26.
Bc4+ Be6 27. Rf1+ Bf6 28. Bxe6+ Kxe6 29. Qb3+ Kd7 30. Bh2 Be5 31. Rf7+ Kd6
32. Nb5+ cxb5 33. Qd5# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Scott, Shay"]
[Black "Putar, Leon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1585"]
[BlackElo "1692"]
[WhiteICU "1284"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[WhiteFideId "2504413"]
[BlackFideId "14546612"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. g3 Bd6 6. Bg2 Nge7 7. O-O O-O 8.
Re1 Ng6 9. Nf1 d4 10. h4 f5 11. h5 Nge5 12. Nxe5 Nxe5 13. f4 Ng4 14. e5 Be7
15. Nh2 Nh6 16. g4 Bh4 17. Rf1 Bg3 18. g5 Bxh2+ 19. Kxh2 Ng4+ 20. Kh1 Qe8
21. Qf3 Qxh5+ 22. Qh3 Qxh3+ 23. Bxh3 h5 24. gxh6 gxh6 25. Bg2 h5 26. Bf3
Kf7 27. Bd2 Rb8 28. Rae1 b5 29. Re2 Bb7 30. Kg2 Rg8 31. Kh3 Bxf3 32. Rff2
Bxe2 33. Rxe2 c4 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Burke, Kevin"]
[Black "McGlade, Emmet"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1768"]
[WhiteICU "1680"]
[BlackICU "1226"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2501520"]
[BlackFideId "2513242"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[ECO "B22"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Alapin's variation (2.c3)"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Nbd2 cxd4 7. Bc4
Bxf3 8. Qb3 Qe5+ 9. Kf1 Be2+ 10. Bxe2 Qc7 11. Ne4 e6 12. Bf4 e5 13. Bd2 Be7
14. Rc1 Qb6 15. Qxb6 axb6 16. Bc4 Nf6 17. Ng5 O-O 18. Nf3 b5 19. Bb3 d3 20.
c4 e4 21. cxb5 exf3 22. bxc6 fxg2+ 23. Kxg2 bxc6 24. Rxc6 Ne4 25. Be3 Rfd8
26. f3 Nd6 27. Rd1 Nf5 28. Bf2 Bh4 29. Bxh4 Ne3+ 30. Kh3 Nxd1 31. Bxd8 Nf2+
32. Kg2 Rxd8 33. Kxf2 Re8 34. Rd6 Re2+ 35. Kf1 Rxb2 36. Rd8# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Dempsey, Denis"]
[Black "Paronyan, Vahe"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1542"]
[BlackElo "1765"]
[WhiteICU "1197"]
[BlackICU "1641"]
[WhiteClub "Dublin"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2502437"]
[BlackFideId "2512564"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "Phelan, Leo"]
[Black "Sheahan, Richard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1620"]
[BlackElo "1348"]
[WhiteICU "1631"]
[BlackICU "1217"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511428"]
[BlackFideId "2513048"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[ECO "A46"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. Bf4 d5 4. e3 c5 5. c3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 cxd4 7. exd4 Bd6
8. Bg3 Bxg3 9. hxg3 O-O 10. Bd3 Re8 11. Ne5 Qd6 12. f4 h6 13. Ndf3 Nd7 14.
g4 Ndxe5 15. fxe5 Qd8 16. Qd2 f6 17. O-O-O Rf8 18. Rh5 Bd7 19. Rdh1 Be8 20.
Rxh6 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Devereux, Rohan"]
[Black "Putar, Slavko"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1610"]
[WhiteICU "1202"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[BlackFideId "14557517"]
[WhiteICUId "17990"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[ECO "A84"]
[Opening "Dutch defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 d5 6. cxd5 exd5 7. O-O O-O 8.
Nbd2 c6 9. Nb3 Ne4 10. Nfd2 Bg5 11. Nxe4 fxe4 12. Bxg5 Qxg5 13. f4 Qh5 14.
e3 Bg4 15. Qc2 Nd7 16. Rf2 Nb6 17. Nc5 Nc4 18. Re1 Nd6 19. Bf1 Rf6 20. Be2
Rd8 21. Bxg4 Qxg4 22. Qa4 b6 23. Na6 Nf5 24. Ree2 Nh4 25. Kh1 Nf3 26. Nb4
Qd7 27. Nc2 Qh3 28. Ne1 Nxh2 29. Kg1 Ng4 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Goss, Alex"]
[Black "Martin, Seamus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1698"]
[WhiteICU "1595"]
[BlackICU "1195"]
[WhiteClub "Elm Mount"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509407"]
[BlackFideId "2504340"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[ECO "D10"]
[Opening "QGD Slav defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]
[BlackFullName "Martin, S&eacute;amus"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. g3 Bf5 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg2 h6 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8.
Re1 O-O 9. Bf4 Nbd7 10. Ne5 Nxe5 11. Bxe5 Bd6 12. Bxf6 Qxf6 13. e4 dxe4 14.
Nxe4 Bxe4 15. Bxe4 Rab8 16. Re3 Qd8 17. Bc2 Qd7 18. Qd3 g6 19. Rae1 Rfe8
20. h4 f5 21. g4 Re7 22. h5 gxh5 23. gxf5 Rg7+ 24. Kf1 exf5 25. Re6 Rf8 26.
Rxh6 Bh2 27. Ree6 Rff7 28. d5 cxd5 29. Qxd5 Qxd5 30. cxd5 Rd7 31. Bb3 Kf8
32. Rxh5 Bc7 33. Rxf5+ Kg8 34. Ref6 Rg4 35. d6+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Honner, Mervyn"]
[Black "Gallagher, Matthew"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1441"]
[BlackElo "1650"]
[WhiteICU "1187"]
[BlackICU "1592"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504847"]
[BlackFideId "2507161"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[ECO "B13"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bb5 Bg4 6. Bxc6+ bxc6 7. Qd3
e6 8. Bd2 Nf6 9. Bg5 Bd6 10. Nc3 Qc7 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. O-O-O Rb8 13. Rde1
O-O 14. g3 Qa5 15. Nd2 Qb4 16. Nb3 a5 17. a3 Qb7 18. f3 Bf5 19. Qe2 Ra8 20.
Na4 Rfc8 21. Nbc5 Qb5 22. Qxb5 cxb5 23. Nb6 Bxc5 24. dxc5 Rxc5 25. Nxa8
Rxc2+ 26. Kd1 e5 27. Nb6 Rc6 28. g4 Be6 29. Na8 Rc8 30. Nb6 Rc6 31. Nxd5
Bxd5 32. Rhf1 Bb3+ 33. Kd2 Rc2+ 34. Ke3 Rxh2 35. Rf2 Rxf2 36. Kxf2 Kg7 37.
Re3 a4 38. Rd3 Kg6 39. Kg3 f5 40. gxf5+ Kxf5 41. Rd8 f6 42. Rb8 Bc4 43. Rb7
Kg6 44. Re7 h5 45. Rd7 Be2 46. Rd2 h4+ 47. Kf2 Bc4 48. Kg2 Kg5 49. Rd7 Be6
50. Rd6 Bc4 51. Rb6 f5 52. Rb8 Kf4 53. Rf8 Be2 54. Kf2 Bxf3 55. Rb8 h3 56.
Kg1 Kg3 57. Rg8+ Bg4 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.12"]
[White "Kelly, Christopher"]
[Black "Hackett, William"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "1473"]
[WhiteICU "1578"]
[BlackICU "1180"]
[WhiteClub "N.I.C.S."]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513218"]
[BlackFideId "2510502"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[ECO "D31"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "semi-Slav"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bf4 Bd6 7. Bxd6 Qxd6
8. e3 a6 9. Bd3 Nf6 10. O-O O-O 11. Rc1 Bd7 12. a3 b5 13. b4 Rac8 14. Qb3
Ne7 15. Rc2 Rc7 16. Rfc1 Rfc8 17. h3 Qb6 18. Ne5 Nc6 19. Nf3 Ne7 20. Ne2 h6
21. Rc5 Be8 22. Qc2 Rxc5 23. dxc5 Qc7 24. Qb2 Nc6 25. Nfd4 Ne5 26. Qc2 Nc4
27. Bxc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.13"]
[White "Fitzpatrick, Kevin"]
[Black "Farrelly, Eoin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1407"]
[BlackElo "1641"]
[WhiteICU "1178"]
[BlackICU "1549"]
[WhiteClub "Galway"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2505886"]
[BlackFideId "2510359"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Opening "Benko's opening"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 Nf6 3. b3 c5 4. d3 Bf5 5. Nd2 Nc6 6. a3 e6 7. h3 Be7 8. e3
Qd7 9. Bb2 Rc8 10. g4 Bg6 11. Ne2 O-O 12. Bf3 e5 13. Ng3 d4 14. e4 Ne8 15.
h4 f6 16. h5 Bf7 17. Nf5 Nc7 18. Qe2 b5 19. h6 g6 20. Ng7 Ne6 21. Nxe6 Bxe6
22. Nf1 c4 23. b4 a5 24. bxa5 Nxa5 25. Ng3 cxd3 26. cxd3 Nb3 27. Rb1 Ra8
28. O-O Bxa3 29. Bxa3 Rxa3 30. Rb2 Rb8 31. Rfb1 Nc5 32. Rd1 b4 33. Qf1 b3
34. Be2 Na4 35. Ra1 Rxa1 36. Qxa1 Nxb2 37. Qxb2 Qa4 38. Qc1 Rc8 39. Qf1 b2
40. Qg2 b1=Q+ 41. Kh2 Qaa2 42. Qf3 Rf8 43. Kg2 Qaa1 44. Nf1 Qc1 45. Qh3 Qf4
46. Ng3 Qe1 47. Bf3 Bxg4 48. Qxg4 Qxg4 49. Bxg4 Rb8 50. Be2 Rb2 51. Kf3 Qg1
52. Nf1 g5 53. Ng3 Kf7 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.14"]
[White "Phelan, John J."]
[Black "Kavanagh, James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1681"]
[BlackElo "1605"]
[WhiteICU "1486"]
[BlackICU "1170"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2503468"]
[BlackFideId "2510006"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[ECO "C15"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Winawer, fingerslip variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bd2 Bxc3 5. bxc3 Ne7 6. e5 c5 7. Qg4 cxd4
8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 dxc3 10. Bxc3 Qc7 11. Qd3 Nbc6 12. f4 Nf5 13. Nf3 Qb6
14. Bd2 Ncd4 15. Nxd4 Nxd4 16. Rc1 Bd7 17. Be3 Qa5+ 18. c3 Bb5 19. Qxd4
Bxf1 20. Kxf1 Qxa2 21. g3 Rc8 22. Qxa7 Qc4+ 23. Kf2 Qb3 24. Bd4 Qb2+ 25.
Kf3 Qd2 26. Rcd1 Qc2 27. Qxb7 Qe4+ 28. Kf2 Qc2+ 29. Ke1 Qe4+ 30. Kd2 Rc4
31. Qb8+ Ke7 32. Qxg8 Rxd4+ 33. cxd4 Qxd4+ 34. Ke2 Qe4+ 35. Kf2 Qc2+ 36.
Kf3 Qe4+ 37. Kg4 Qf5+ 38. Kh4 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.15"]
[White "Martin, Desmond"]
[Black "Bergin, Cian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[BlackElo "1481"]
[WhiteICU "1159"]
[BlackICU "1481"]
[WhiteClub "Naomh Barrog"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2506815"]
[BlackFideId "2512572"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[ECO "E62"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "fianchetto variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. g3 d6 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Bg2 c6 7. e4 Nbd7 8.
O-O c5 9. d5 Nb6 10. b3 Bg4 11. Bf4 Nfd7 12. Rc1 Ne5 13. Bxe5 Bxe5 14. h3
Bxf3 15. Qxf3 a5 16. a4 Bxc3 17. Qxc3 Nd7 18. Rce1 Qb6 19. h4 Rae8 20. Bh3
Nb8 21. e5 dxe5 22. Rxe5 f5 23. Re6 Qc7 24. Rfe1 Rf7 25. Qe3 Kf8 26. Qe5
Qxe5 27. R6xe5 Nd7 28. Re6 Rf6 29. Bg2 Kf7 30. R6e3 b6 31. f4 Nf8 32. Kf2
Rd6 33. Bf1 Kf6 34. Bg2 e6 35. Bf3 Red8 36. Re5 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.16"]
[White "Jordan, Felix"]
[Black "Scallan, Cillian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1530"]
[BlackElo "1190"]
[WhiteICU "1473"]
[BlackICU "1138"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510324"]
[BlackFideId "2511240"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 Nf6 5. c3 d6 6. Be3 Bb6 7. Nbd2 O-O 8.
O-O Be6 9. Bb3 Qd7 10. d4 exd4 11. cxd4 Bg4 12. Bc2 Nxd4 13. Bxd4 Bxd4 14.
h3 Bxf3 15. Nxf3 Be5 16. Nxe5 dxe5 17. Qxd7 Nxd7 18. Rfd1 Nf6 19. Rac1 Rfd8
20. Bb1 c6 21. f3 Rd7 22. Kf2 Rad8 23. Rxd7 Rxd7 24. Ke3 Nh5 25. Rc5 f6 26.
h4 Nf4 27. g3 Nh5 28. g4 Nf4 29. h5 Rd1 30. Bc2 Re1+ 31. Kf2 Re2+ 32. Kf1
Re3 33. Kf2 Nd3+ 34. Kxe3 Nxc5 35. b4 Ne6 36. Bb3 Kf7 37. Kd3 Ke7 38. Bxe6
Kxe6 39. Kc4 b6 40. a4 a6 41. b5 cxb5+ 42. axb5 a5 43. Kd3 Kd6 44. Kc4 h6
45. Kb3 Kc5 46. Ka4 Kc4 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.17"]
[White "Renji, Rafael Ninan"]
[Black "Venkatesan, Kavin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1467"]
[BlackElo "1481"]
[WhiteICU "1122"]
[BlackICU "1473"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512793"]
[BlackFideId "2512602"]
[PlyCount "148"]
[ECO "B92"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Opovcensky variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Nc6 8.
O-O Be6 9. Be3 d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 Bxd5 12. Qd2 Bxb3 13. Qxd8+ Rxd8
14. axb3 Be7 15. Rad1 Nd4 16. Bxd4 exd4 17. Bd3 O-O 18. Be4 b6 19. c3 dxc3
20. bxc3 Bf6 21. c4 Rfe8 22. Bd5 Re2 23. Rfe1 Rb2 24. Rd3 g6 25. Rf3 Kg7
26. g3 g5 27. g4 Rd7 28. Re4 Rd2 29. Kg2 h6 30. h3 Rd6 31. Kg3 a5 32. Rf5
Kg6 33. Re8 Kg7 34. Re4 Rd7 35. Kf3 Rb2 36. c5 bxc5 37. Bc4 Rc7 38. Kg3 Rc2
39. Kf3 Bd4 40. Re2 Rc3+ 41. Kg2 a4 42. Rf3 a3 43. Ra2 Rxf3 44. Kxf3 Bb2
45. Ke4 Rd7 46. Ke3 Kf6 47. Ke2 Ke5 48. Bd3 Kf4 49. Bf5 Re7+ 50. Kd3 Kf3
51. Kc4 Re5 52. Kd3 Kxf2 53. Be4 Kg3 54. Bf5 Kxh3 55. Kc4 Kh4 56. Kd3 h5
57. Be4 hxg4 58. Bc6 f5 59. Kc4 f4 60. Kb5 f3 61. Ka4 f2 62. Bb5 g3 63. Bf1
Re1 64. Bg2 f1=Q 65. Bxf1 Rxf1 66. Kb5 g2 67. Kxc5 g1=Q+ 68. Kd6 Qb6+ 69.
Ke7 Re1+ 70. Kd7 Qd4+ 71. Kc6 Re6+ 72. Kc7 Qc5+ 73. Kd7 Qc6+ 74. Kd8 Re8#
0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.18"]
[White "Murray, Sam"]
[Black "Avetisyan, Gagik"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1483"]
[BlackElo "1221"]
[WhiteICU "1452"]
[BlackICU "1110"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "ARM"]
[WhiteFideId "2508958"]
[BlackFideId "13307843"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[ECO "D03"]
[Opening "Torre attack (Tartakower variation)"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg5 e6 4. Nbd2 c5 5. e3 Nc6 6. c3 h6 7. Bh4 Bd7 8.
a4 a6 9. Be2 cxd4 10. exd4 Be7 11. O-O Qb6 12. b4 O-O 13. Rb1 Ne4 14. Nxe4
dxe4 15. Ne5 Qc7 16. Bxe7 Nxe7 17. Qb3 Rac8 18. c4 Nf5 19. Rfd1 Rfd8 20.
Nxd7 Rxd7 21. d5 exd5 22. cxd5 Rcd8 23. Rd2 Qe5 24. Rbd1 e3 25. Rd3 exf2+
26. Kxf2 Qxh2 27. Bf3 Qg3+ 28. Kg1 Qc7 29. Bg4 Qb6+ 30. Kf1 Qg6 31. Bh3 Rd6
32. Rf3 Ne7 33. Rg3 Qh7 34. Rgd3 Qe4 35. Re3 Qh4 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.19"]
[White "Cooney, Thomas"]
[Black "Putar, Lara"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1443"]
[WhiteICU "1108"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[WhiteFideId "2512947"]
[BlackFideId "14546604"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.20"]
[White "O'Hanlon, Joe"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Nikolai"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1568"]
[BlackElo "1333"]
[WhiteICU "1426"]
[BlackICU "1104"]
[BlackClub "Skerries"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512157"]
[BlackFideId "2511649"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.21"]
[Round "1.21"]
[White "Wang, Zhengjn"]
[Black "Kirulis, Edgars"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1512"]
[WhiteICU "1077"]
[BlackICU "1408"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511339"]
[BlackFideId "2512025"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Healy, John"]
[Black "Putar, Slavko"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1919"]
[BlackElo "1610"]
[WhiteICU "1868"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[WhiteFideId "2500965"]
[BlackFideId "14557517"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "3.Nd2"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 e6 6. Ne2 c5 7. c3 Nc6 8.
O-O Be7 9. f4 cxd4 10. cxd4 Qb6 11. Nf3 O-O 12. Kh1 f6 13. b3 fxe5 14. fxe5
Qd8 15. Be3 a6 16. Nf4 Nb6 17. Qb1 h6 18. Bh7+ Kh8 19. Ng6+ Kxh7 20. Nxe7+
Kh8 21. Ng6+ Kg8 22. Nxf8 Qxf8 23. Ng5 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Venkatesan, Kavin"]
[Black "O'Gorman, Alice"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1481"]
[BlackElo "1868"]
[WhiteICU "1473"]
[BlackICU "1833"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Dun Laoghaire"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512602"]
[BlackFideId "2508214"]
[PlyCount "151"]
[ECO "D30"]
[Opening "Queen's gambit declined"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Be7 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Ne5 Nbd7
8. f4 c5 9. cxd5 Nxe5 10. d6 Nc6 11. dxc5 Bxd6 12. cxd6 Qxd6 13. Nb5 Qe7
14. Nd4 Nxd4 15. exd4 Ne4 16. g3 Nxd2 17. Qxd2 Bd7 18. Bg2 Bb5 19. Kf2 Rfd8
20. Rhe1 Rac8 21. Rac1 Qd7 22. Rc3 g6 23. Rec1 Rxc3 24. bxc3 Bc4 25. Bf1
Qd5 26. Bg2 Qd7 27. Bf1 Qa4 28. Rb1 Bxf1 29. Rxf1 Rc8 30. Rb1 Qc6 31. Rc1
Qc4 32. Qe2 Qd5 33. Ke3 b5 34. Rc2 Rc4 35. Qf3 Qxf3+ 36. Kxf3 Kf8 37. Ke4
Ke7 38. Kd3 Kd6 39. Rb2 a6 40. g4 Ra4 41. h4 Kd5 42. g5 Ra3 43. Re2 b4 44.
Rc2 bxc3 45. Rxc3 Rxa2 46. Rc7 Ra3+ 47. Ke2 Rh3 48. Rd7+ Ke4 49. Rxf7 Rxh4
50. Ra7 Rh2+ 51. Kf1 Kxd4 52. Rxa6 Ke4 53. Ra4+ Kf5 54. Kg1 Rh4 55. Kg2
Rxf4 56. Ra5+ e5 57. Kh3 Kxg5 58. Rxe5+ Rf5 59. Re3 Ra5 60. Rg3+ Kh5 61.
Kh2 Ra4 62. Rb3 g5 63. Rb5 Kh4 64. Rb3 Ra2+ 65. Kg1 h5 66. Rb4+ g4 67. Rc4
Kh3 68. Rc5 h4 69. Rc1 g3 70. Rb1 Ra4 71. Rc1 Kg4 72. Rf1 h3 73. Rb1 h2+
74. Kg2 Ra2+ 75. Kh1 Kh3 76. Rb2 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Bennett, Eric"]
[Black "Goss, Alex"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1829"]
[BlackElo "1698"]
[WhiteICU "1814"]
[BlackICU "1595"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "Elm Mount"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2501384"]
[BlackFideId "2509407"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[ECO "A46"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn"]
[Variation "Yusupov-Rubinstein system"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. b3 Bb7 5. Bb2 Be7 6. Be2 c5 7. c4 O-O 8.
O-O Ne4 9. Qc2 f5 10. Nc3 Na6 11. a3 Nc7 12. Nd2 d5 13. f3 Nxc3 14. Bxc3
Qe8 15. b4 Qg6 16. Rab1 Qh6 17. f4 Rab8 18. dxc5 bxc5 19. Be5 Rfc8 20. Qa4
dxc4 21. Bxc4 cxb4 22. Qd7 Bxg2 23. Rf2 Bh3 24. Qxe7 bxa3 25. Rxb8 Rxb8 26.
Qxc7 Qg6+ 27. Kh1 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Kirulis, Edgars"]
[Black "Peoples, Jonathon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1512"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[WhiteICU "1408"]
[BlackICU "1762"]
[BlackClub "Ballinasloe"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512025"]
[BlackFideId "2509520"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[ECO "D80"]
[Opening "Gruenfeld"]
[Variation "Stockholm variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Ne4 5. Bf4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. e3 c6 8.
Nf3 O-O 9. Qb3 Qa5 10. Qb4 Qxb4 11. cxb4 Be6 12. c5 Nd7 13. Bd3 a5 14. Rb1
axb4 15. Rxb4 Nxc5 16. Bb1 Ra7 17. O-O Ne4 18. Rc1 Rfa8 19. Rc2 Nd6 20. h3
Nc4 21. g4 h5 22. Ng5 Bd7 23. gxh5 gxh5 24. h4 Bf5 25. e4 Bg6 26. Rcxc4
dxc4 27. Rxc4 Ra4 28. Rc3 Bxd4 29. Rb3 b6 30. Nf3 Bc5 31. Ng5 Ra3 32. Rb2
Bd4 33. Rb4 R8a4 34. Bd2 Rxb4 35. Bxb4 Ra7 36. Kg2 c5 37. Bd2 f6 38. Nh3 e5
39. Ng1 Bf7 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "Putar, Leon"]
[Black "Phelan, John J."]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1692"]
[BlackElo "1681"]
[BlackICU "1486"]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "14546612"]
[BlackFideId "2503468"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[ECO "C42"]
[Opening "Petrov"]
[Variation "Nimzovich attack"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Be7 7. h3
O-O 8. Bd3 Nd7 9. Be3 c5 10. Qd2 Nb6 11. c4 Na4 12. c3 Nb6 13. h4 Be6 14.
Qc2 f5 15. b3 h6 16. Qe2 Bf6 17. Rc1 Re8 18. O-O Bxh4 19. Nxh4 Qxh4 20. Qf3
Re7 21. Bf4 Rae8 22. Bxd6 Rf7 23. Bxc5 Nd7 24. Bd6 b6 25. Rfe1 Nc5 26. Bxc5
bxc5 27. Qc6 Qe7 28. Re5 Bd7 29. Rxe7 Bxc6 30. Rxe8+ Bxe8 31. Re1 Bc6 32.
Re5 Be4 33. Bxe4 fxe4 34. Rxc5 Re7 35. Rd5 e3 36. fxe3 Rxe3 37. b4 Rxc3 38.
c5 Ra3 39. b5 Rxa2 40. c6 Kh7 41. Rc5 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Scallan, Cillian"]
[Black "Burke, Kevin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1190"]
[BlackElo "1768"]
[WhiteICU "1138"]
[BlackICU "1680"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511240"]
[BlackFideId "2501520"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Paronyan, Vahe"]
[Black "Cooney, Thomas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1765"]
[WhiteICU "1641"]
[BlackICU "1108"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512564"]
[BlackFideId "2512947"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[ECO "C57"]
[Opening "two knights defence"]
[Variation "Fegatello attack"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nxd5 6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+
Ke6 8. Nc3 Nb4 9. Qe4 c6 10. a3 Na6 11. d4 Qd6 12. Bf4 Rg8 13. dxe5 Qd7 14.
O-O-O Nc7 15. Bg5 b5 16. Bb3 Be7 17. Bxe7 Kxe7 18. Nxd5+ cxd5 19. Rxd5 Qc6
20. Qh4+ Kf8 21. Rd8+ Ne8 22. Bxg8 Bf5 23. Bb3 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.8"]
[White "Avetisyan, Gagik"]
[Black "Phelan, Leo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1221"]
[BlackElo "1620"]
[WhiteICU "1110"]
[BlackICU "1631"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "ARM"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "13307843"]
[BlackFideId "2511428"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d5 3. e3 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. c3 Qb6 6. Qb3 c4 7. Qc2 Bf5 8.
Qc1 e6 9. Nbd2 Qd8 10. Ne5 Nxe5 11. Bxe5 Nd7 12. Bg3 b5 13. a3 a5 14. Be2
Nb6 15. O-O Be7 16. Bf3 Bd3 17. Re1 f5 18. Be2 Bxe2 19. Rxe2 O-O 20. Be5
Bd6 21. Nf3 Bxe5 22. Nxe5 Nd7 23. Nxd7 Qxd7 24. f4 Rfb8 25. Re1 Ra7 26. Qd2
Rab7 27. Reb1 b4 28. h3 Qc6 29. g4 fxg4 30. hxg4 Qd6 31. g5 bxa3 32. Ra2
Rb3 33. Kf2 Qb6 34. Kf3 Rxb2 35. Raxb2 axb2 36. Qc2 Qb3 37. Qg2 a4 38. g6
h6 39. Qh3 a3 40. Qxe6+ Kh8 41. Rh1 Qb7 42. Rxh6+ gxh6 43. Qe5+ Kg8 44.
Qe6+ Kf8 45. Qd6+ Ke8 46. Qe6+ Kd8 47. Qd6+ Kc8 48. Qe6+ Qd7 49. Qa6+ Qb7
50. Qe6+ Kc7 51. Qe7+ Kc6 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.9"]
[White "Dimitrov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Kelly, Christopher"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1333"]
[WhiteICU "1104"]
[BlackICU "1578"]
[WhiteClub "Skerries"]
[BlackClub "N.I.C.S."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511649"]
[BlackFideId "2513218"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Opening "French defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. Bc4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Qe2+ Be7 5. Bb3 Nf6 6. Nc3 c6 7. d4 O-O
8. Bg5 a5 9. a3 Re8 10. Be3 b5 11. Nf3 Ba6 12. Qd1 Nbd7 13. h3 Bd6 14. O-O
Qc7 15. Re1 Nf8 16. Ne2 b4 17. Nf4 Bxf4 18. Bxf4 Qxf4 19. axb4 Rxe1+ 20.
Qxe1 Qc7 21. Rxa5 Bb7 22. Ne5 Re8 23. c4 dxc4 24. Bxc4 Nd5 25. Qd2 Nd7 26.
f4 f6 27. Qc2 Nb6 28. Bxd5+ Nxd5 29. Rxd5 fxe5 30. dxe5 Qb6+ 31. Qc5 Qxc5+
32. Rxc5 Rd8 33. Rc2 Rd4 34. b5 cxb5 35. g3 Rd1+ 36. Kf2 Rh1 37. Rc7 Bd5
38. Rc5 Bc4 39. b3 Bxb3 40. Rxb5 Ba2 41. h4 Kf7 42. Kf3 Rf1+ 43. Kg4 Be6+
44. Kg5 Bd7 45. Rb7 Ke6 46. h5 Rd1 47. g4 Rd4 48. Rb6+ Kf7 49. e6+ Bxe6 50.
f5 h6+ 51. Kh4 Bd7 52. Rb7 Kf6 53. Rb6+ Kf7 54. Rb7 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.10"]
[White "Hackett, William"]
[Black "Martin, Desmond"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1473"]
[WhiteICU "1180"]
[BlackICU "1159"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Naomh Barrog"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510502"]
[BlackFideId "2506815"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[ECO "D15"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "4.Nc3"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 a6 5. e3 b5 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. Bd2 Bg4 8.
Be2 e6 9. Rc1 Nbd7 10. O-O Bd6 11. Qb3 Ne4 12. Rfd1 Bxf3 13. Bxf3 Nxd2 14.
Rxd2 O-O 15. Qd1 Nb6 16. Rdc2 Rc8 17. a3 Qd7 18. Na2 Rxc2 19. Rxc2 Rc8 20.
Be2 Rxc2 21. Qxc2 a5 22. h3 Nc4 23. Nc3 b4 24. axb4 Bxb4 25. Bxc4 dxc4 26.
Qe4 g6 27. d5 Bxc3 28. dxe6 Qxe6 29. Qa8+ Kg7 30. bxc3 Qb6 31. Qd5 Qa6 32.
Qd4+ Kg8 33. Qd8+ Kg7 34. Qd4+ Kg8 35. Qd8+ Kg7 36. Qd4+ f6 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.11"]
[White "Bergin, Cian"]
[Black "Jordan, Felix"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1481"]
[BlackElo "1530"]
[WhiteICU "1481"]
[BlackICU "1473"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512572"]
[BlackFideId "2510324"]
[PlyCount "182"]
[ECO "C07"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Tarrasch, open variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. c3 cxd4 5. cxd4 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 Nc6
8. Bb5 Ne7 9. Nf3 O-O 10. O-O a6 11. Bd3 h6 12. Bf4 Nd5 13. Nxd5 Qxd5 14.
a3 Bd6 15. Bxd6 Qxd6 16. Be4 Rd8 17. Bxc6 Qxc6 18. Qb3 b5 19. Rac1 Qd6 20.
Rfd1 Bb7 21. Qe3 Rac8 22. Qe5 Rxc1 23. Rxc1 Bxf3 24. gxf3 Qxd4 25. Qc7 Qd6
26. Qa5 Qd2 27. Qc7 Qg5+ 28. Kf1 Qd5 29. Qc6 Qd3+ 30. Kg2 Qd6 31. Kf1 Qxh2
32. Rc3 Qd6 33. Qe4 Qd5 34. Rc6 Qxe4 35. fxe4 Ra8 36. Ke2 e5 37. Kf3 f6 38.
Kg4 Kf7 39. f4 exf4 40. Kxf4 Ra7 41. e5 fxe5+ 42. Kxe5 a5 43. Rb6 b4 44.
axb4 axb4 45. Rxb4 h5 46. Rb6 Ra5+ 47. Kf4 g5+ 48. Kg3 h4+ 49. Kg2 Re5 50.
b4 Re4 51. b5 Rb4 52. Rb8 Ke7 53. b6 Kf7 54. b7 Kg7 55. Kh3 Rb3+ 56. Kh2 g4
57. Kh1 Kh7 58. Kg1 h3 59. Re8 Rxb7 60. Re4 Rg7 61. Re3 Kh6 62. Kh2 Kg5 63.
Kg3 Rf7 64. Ra3 Rf5 65. Re3 Rd5 66. Rc3 Rf5 67. Re3 Kh5 68. Rd3 Rg5 69. Rd8
Kg6 70. Rg8+ Kf6 71. Rf8+ Ke7 72. Rf4 Rg6 73. Rf2 Ke6 74. Ra2 Kf6 75. Ra6+
Kg5 76. Ra5+ Kh6 77. Re5 Rg5 78. Re6+ Kh5 79. Re8 Rg7 80. Re5+ Kh6 81. Re6+
Kg5 82. Re4 Kf5 83. Ra4 Rh7 84. Ra5+ Ke4 85. Ra4+ Ke5 86. Ra5+ Kf6 87. Ra6+
Ke5 88. Ra5+ Kd4 89. Kxg4 h2 90. Ra4+ Kc3 91. Ra1 h1=Q 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.12"]
[White "McGlade, Emmet"]
[Black "Murray, Sam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1483"]
[WhiteICU "1226"]
[BlackICU "1452"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513242"]
[BlackFideId "2508958"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.13"]
[White "Putar, Lara"]
[Black "Dempsey, Denis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1443"]
[BlackElo "1542"]
[BlackICU "1197"]
[BlackClub "Dublin"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "14546604"]
[BlackFideId "2502437"]
[PlyCount "157"]
[ECO "D06"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Marshall defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 Bf5 5. Bg2 e6 6. O-O Be7 7. Nc3 O-O 8.
cxd5 exd5 9. Re1 Bb4 10. a3 Bxc3 11. bxc3 h6 12. a4 Re8 13. Ba3 Qd7 14. Rc1
Na5 15. Ne5 Qe6 16. Bb4 Nc6 17. Nd3 Bh3 18. Nf4 Qd7 19. Bxh3 Qd8 20. Ba3
Na5 21. Bb4 Nc4 22. Bg2 a5 23. e4 Nxe4 24. Bxe4 dxe4 25. Qe2 axb4 26. Qxc4
Rxa4 27. cxb4 c6 28. Rcd1 Qd6 29. Nd3 Kf8 30. Ne5 Re7 31. Qc5 Qxc5 32. bxc5
Re6 33. Rxe4 Kg8 34. Rde1 f5 35. Rf4 g5 36. Rxf5 Rxd4 37. Nf3 Rxe1+ 38.
Nxe1 Re4 39. Nd3 Rd4 40. Ne5 Rd5 41. Ng4 Rd1+ 42. Kg2 Kg7 43. Ne3 Rb1 44.
f4 Rb3 45. Nc4 g4 46. Re5 Kf7 47. h3 Rc3 48. Nd6+ Kf6 49. hxg4 Rc2+ 50. Kh3
Rc1 51. Nxb7 Rh1+ 52. Kg2 Rb1 53. Nd6 Rb2+ 54. Kh3 Rb1 55. Ne8+ Kf7 56. Nc7
Rh1+ 57. Kg2 Rd1 58. Re6 Rd2+ 59. Kh3 Rd1 60. Rxc6 Ke7 61. Re6+ Kd7 62.
Rd6+ Rxd6 63. cxd6 Kxd6 64. Ne8+ Ke7 65. Ng7 Kf6 66. Nf5 h5 67. gxh5 Kxf5
68. g4+ Kf6 69. g5+ Kg7 70. f5 Kf7 71. h6 Kg8 72. f6 Kh8 73. h7 Kxh7 74. f7
Kg7 75. g6 Kf8 76. Kh4 Ke7 77. Kh5 Kf8 78. Kh6 Ke7 79. Kg7 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.14"]
[White "Sheahan, Richard"]
[Black "O'Hanlon, Joe"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1348"]
[BlackElo "1568"]
[WhiteICU "1217"]
[BlackICU "1426"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513048"]
[BlackFideId "2512157"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[ECO "D07"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Chigorin defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxc4 5. e3 Bf5 6. Bxc4 Qd7 7. Qb3 e6
8. Bb5 a6 9. Bc4 $4 Na5 10. Bxe6 Bxe6 11. Qd1 Be7 12. Nf3 Bg4 13. h3 Bxf3
14. Qxf3 O-O 15. h4 Rfe8 16. Rh3 Qg4 17. Bxf6 Qxf3 18. Rxf3 Bxf6 19. Nd5
Bd8 20. g3 c6 21. Nc3 Nc4 22. b3 Ba5 23. Rc1 Nd6 24. Ke2 Bxc3 25. Rxc3 Ne4
26. Rc4 Rad8 27. Rf4 Nd6 28. Kf3 Nxc4 29. bxc4 Re7 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.15"]
[White "Martin, Seamus"]
[Black "Whelan, Niall"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1582"]
[WhiteICU "1195"]
[BlackICU "1364"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504340"]
[BlackFideId "2500809"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[ECO "B28"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "O'Kelly variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]
[WhiteFullName "Martin, S&eacute;amus"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 3. c3 d6 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 Bg4 6. Be3 Nc6 7. d5 Bxf3 8.
Qxf3 Ne5 9. Qd1 Nf6 10. Bd3 g6 11. Bd4 Ned7 12. Nd2 Bg7 13. O-O O-O 14. h3
Nc5 15. Bc2 Nfd7 16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. Nb3 Nxb3 18. Bxb3 Nc5 19. Bc2 Qb6 20.
Qd4+ f6 21. b4 Nd7 22. Qxb6 Nxb6 23. Bd3 Nd7 24. Rfc1 Rfc8 25. Kf1 Ne5 26.
Ke2 b5 27. Kd2 h5 28. f4 Nd7 29. Rxc8 Rxc8 30. Rc1 Rxc1 31. Kxc1 g5 32. f5
Nb6 33. Kd2 Kf8 34. Kc3 Ke8 35. Kb3 Kd7 36. Kc3 Kc7 37. Kb3 Kb7 38. Kc3 Nd7
39. Kd4 Kb6 40. Kc3 Nb8 41. a3 h4 42. Kb3 Nd7 43. Kc3 $2 (43. Bf1 $10)
43... Ne5 44. Kd4 g4 45. Be2 g3 46. Ke3 a5 47. Kd4 axb4 48. axb4 Nf7 49.
Kc3 Ng5 50. Kd4 Nxh3 51. Bf1 Nf2 52. Ke3 Nd1+ 53. Kf3 Nc3 54. Kg4 Nxe4 55.
Kxh4 Nc3 56. Kxg3 Nxd5 57. Kf3 Nxb4 58. Ke3 Kc5 59. Kd2 Kb6 60. Kc3 Nc6 61.
g4 Ne5 62. Be2 Kc5 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.16"]
[White "O'Sullivan, Tom"]
[Black "Honner, Mervyn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1659"]
[BlackElo "1441"]
[WhiteICU "1360"]
[BlackICU "1187"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504375"]
[BlackFideId "2504847"]
[PlyCount "105"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. e3 d6 3. Bd3 g6 4. Nd2 Bg7 5. c4 O-O 6. f4 e6 7. Ngf3 b6 8.
O-O Bb7 9. Qc2 Ng4 10. Ne4 c5 11. h3 Nh6 12. dxc5 dxc5 13. Ng3 Nc6 14. Bd2
f5 15. a3 e5 16. Be2 exf4 17. exf4 Nd4 18. Nxd4 Bxd4+ 19. Kh2 Qh4 20. Bf3
Ng4+ 21. Bxg4 fxg4 22. Ne2 Bxg2 23. Ng1 Bxf1 24. Rxf1 Bxg1+ 25. Kxg1 Qg3+
26. Kh1 Qxh3+ 27. Kg1 Rae8 28. Rf2 g3 29. Rg2 Rxf4 30. Bc3 Re1+ $4 (30...
Rf1+ $1 31. Kxf1 Qh1+ 32. Rg1 Qf3+ { and mate next move. }) 31. Bxe1 Rf3
32. Qe4 Qf5 33. Qxf5 Rxf5 34. Bxg3 Rf7 35. Re2 h5 36. Re8+ Kh7 37. Bd6 Kh6
38. Re7 Rf5 39. Rxa7 Kg5 40. Rb7 Kg4 41. Rxb6 Kf3 42. Rb3+ Ke2 43. Kg2 h4
44. Rb5 g5 45. Rxc5 Rf2+ 46. Kh3 Rf3+ 47. Kg4 Rf6 48. Rd5 Rg6 49. c5 Kf2
50. c6 Kg2 51. c7 Rg8 52. Rd2+ Kf1 53. Bh2 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.17"]
[White "Kavanagh, James"]
[Black "Deneher, Jimmy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1605"]
[BlackElo "1730"]
[WhiteICU "1170"]
[BlackICU "1314"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510006"]
[BlackFideId "2509008"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[ECO "A11"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Caro-Kann defensive system"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. c4 c6 2. Nc3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. d4 f5 6. Nf3 Bd6 7. Bg5 Nf6 8.
Ne5 O-O 9. f4 Qe8 10. Bg2 Ne4 11. Qb3 Kh8 12. Nxe4 fxe4 13. O-O Nd7 14. e3
Nxe5 15. fxe5 Bc7 16. Qb4 Kg8 17. Be7 Rf7 18. Rf3 Rf6 19. Rxf6 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.18"]
[White "Murray, Benjamin"]
[Black "Renji, Rafael Ninan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1467"]
[WhiteICU "1299"]
[BlackICU "1122"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512963"]
[BlackFideId "2512793"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[ECO "B77"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "dragon, Yugoslav attack, 9.Bc4"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8.
Bc4 Nc6 9. Qd2 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 a6 11. O-O-O b5 12. Bb3 Bb7 13. g4 Rc8 14. h4
e5 15. Be3 h5 16. gxh5 Nxh5 17. Bh6 Bxh6 18. Qxh6 Qf6 19. Kb1 Rfd8 20. Rdg1
Qg7 21. Rxg6 Qxg6 22. Qxg6+ Ng7 23. Rg1 Kf8 24. Qxf7# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.19"]
[White "Wang, Zhengjn"]
[Black "Scott, Shay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1585"]
[WhiteICU "1077"]
[BlackICU "1284"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511339"]
[BlackFideId "2504413"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.20"]
[White "Farrelly, Eoin"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1641"]
[WhiteICU "1549"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510359"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.21"]
[White "Gallagher, Matthew"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1650"]
[WhiteICU "1592"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2507161"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.22"]
[White "Devereux, Rohan"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteICU "1202"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteICUId "17990"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "2.23"]
[White "Fitzpatrick, Kevin"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1407"]
[WhiteICU "1178"]
[WhiteClub "Galway"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2505886"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Burke, Kevin"]
[Black "Healy, John"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1768"]
[BlackElo "1919"]
[WhiteICU "1680"]
[BlackICU "1868"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2501520"]
[BlackFideId "2500965"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[ECO "B22"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Alapin's variation (2.c3)"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. Na3 a6 7. Be3 cxd4
8. cxd4 e6 9. Bc4 Bb4+ 10. Kf1 Qd6 11. Nc2 Ba5 12. Rc1 Nf6 13. a3 O-O 14.
b4 Bc7 15. Bg5 Nd5 16. Bh4 Rac8 17. Bg3 Nf4 18. Ne3 Ne7 19. Ne5 g5 20. Nxf5
Nxf5 21. Bxf4 gxf4 22. Qg4+ Kh8 23. Qh5 Qxd4 24. Nxf7+ Rxf7 25. Bxe6 Rcf8
26. Bxf7 Bb6 27. Qe2 Rxf7 28. Rd1 Ne3+ $1 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "O'Gorman, Alice"]
[Black "Putar, Leon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1868"]
[BlackElo "1692"]
[WhiteICU "1833"]
[WhiteClub "Dun Laoghaire"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[WhiteFideId "2508214"]
[BlackFideId "14546612"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Bd6 5. Bd3 Ne7 6. O-O O-O 7. h3 Bf5
8. Re1 Bxd3 9. Qxd3 Ng6 10. Nc3 c6 11. Bd2 Nd7 12. Ne2 h6 13. Ng3 Bxg3 14.
fxg3 Nf6 15. Ne5 Ne4 16. Nxg6 fxg6 17. Bf4 Qb6 18. b3 Rf7 19. Rf1 Raf8 20.
Be5 Qd8 21. Rae1 Qg5 22. Bf4 Qe7 23. c4 g5 24. Be5 Rxf1+ 25. Rxf1 Rxf1+ 26.
Qxf1 Qf7 27. Qxf7+ Kxf7 28. cxd5 cxd5 29. Kf1 Nc3 30. a4 Na2 31. Bb8 a6 32.
Bd6 Nc1 33. b4 Nb3 34. Be5 Nd2+ 35. Ke2 Nc4 36. Bc7 Ke6 37. a5 Kd7 38. Bb8
Kc6 39. Ba7 Nd6 40. Bc5 Ne4 41. Bf8 Nxg3+ 42. Kd3 Nf5 43. g4 Nd6 44. Bxg7
Nf7 45. Bf8 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Phelan, Leo"]
[Black "Bennett, Eric"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1620"]
[BlackElo "1829"]
[WhiteICU "1631"]
[BlackICU "1814"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511428"]
[BlackFideId "2501384"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[ECO "B03"]
[Opening "Alekhine's defence"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. exd6 exd6 6. Nc3 Be7 7. b3 O-O 8.
Bd3 Nc6 9. Nge2 Bf6 10. Be3 Bg4 11. f3 Re8 12. Qd2 Qe7 13. Ne4 Bh4+ 14.
N2g3 f5 15. fxg4 fxe4 16. Bc2 d5 17. c5 Nd7 18. O-O-O Bxg3 19. hxg3 Nf8 20.
Rh5 Qe6 21. Rf1 Ne7 22. Bd1 Neg6 23. Be2 c6 24. Rhf5 b6 25. Rf7 Qxf7 26.
Rxf7 Kxf7 27. Ba6 Re6 28. g5 Nd7 29. Be2 bxc5 30. dxc5 Nge5 31. Bd4 Kg8 32.
Qa5 Re7 33. Qc7 Rae8 34. Qxa7 Nd3+ 35. Bxd3 exd3 36. Qa6 Re2 37. Qxd3 Rxa2
38. Kd1 Ree2 39. Qxe2 Rxe2 40. Kxe2 Kf7 41. Kf3 g6 42. Kf4 Ke6 43. b4 Ke7
44. Ke3 Kd8 45. Kd3 Kc7 46. Bg7 Kb7 47. Kc3 Ka6 48. Kb3 Kb5 49. g4 Nb8 50.
Be5 Na6 51. Bc3 Nc7 52. Bf6 Ne6 53. Kc3 Nf4 54. Be5 Nxg2 55. Bd4 Nf4 56.
Be5 Nh3 57. Bf6 Nf2 58. Kb3 Nxg4 59. Kc3 h5 60. Bd4 h4 61. Bg1 h3 62. Kb3
h2 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Peoples, Jonathon"]
[Black "Paronyan, Vahe"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "1765"]
[WhiteICU "1762"]
[BlackICU "1641"]
[WhiteClub "Ballinasloe"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509520"]
[BlackFideId "2512564"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nb6 6. Nf3 c5 7. Be3 Nc6 8.
Bb5 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Bd7 10. O-O Be7 11. Qe2 O-O 12. Rfd1 Qe8 13. Rac1 Rc8 14.
Nb3 Ne5 15. Bxd7 Nexd7 16. Nb5 Rxc1 17. Rxc1 Qb8 18. Qd2 Rd8 19. Qa5 Ne5
20. Qxa7 Qxa7 21. Nxa7 Nbc4 22. Bd4 Nxb2 23. Bxb2 Nd3 24. Rc7 Nxb2 25. Kf1
Bf6 26. Rxb7 g5 27. Nc6 Rc8 28. Rb8 Rxb8 29. Nxb8 Na4 30. Nc6 Bb2 31. Nb4
h5 32. Ke2 Ba3 33. Nc2 Bd6 34. Kd3 Bxh2 35. Kc4 Bg1 36. Kb4 Nb6 37. f3 f5
38. Nbd4 fxe4 39. fxe4 Kf7 40. Nf3 Bf2 41. Nxg5+ Kf6 42. Nf3 Nd7 43. a4 Ne5
44. Ncd4 Nd3+ 45. Kb5 Ne1 46. a5 e5 47. a6 Nxf3 48. Nxf3 Ba7 49. Kc6 h4 50.
Kb7 Bc5 51. a7 Bxa7 52. Kxa7 Kg6 53. Nxe5+ Kg5 54. Nf3+ Kf4 55. e5 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Gallagher, Matthew"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Nikolai"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1650"]
[BlackElo "1333"]
[WhiteICU "1592"]
[BlackICU "1104"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "Skerries"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2507161"]
[BlackFideId "2511649"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[ECO "D31"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "3.Nc3"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 Nf6 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Nc6 7. Nf3 Ne4
8. Qc2 h6 9. Bd3 f5 10. cxd5 exd5 11. c4 Be6 12. O-O g5 13. Nd2 Qf6 14.
cxd5 Bxd5 15. Nxe4 fxe4 16. Bxe4 O-O-O 17. Rb1 Rhf8 18. Bxd5 Rxd5 19. Qb3
Rf5 20. Qxb7+ Kd7 21. Qb2 g4 22. g3 Rh5 23. Qe2 Qe6 24. Bb2 Qe4 25. d5 Rff5
26. dxc6+ Ke7 27. f3 gxf3 28. Qf2 Rh3 29. Rbd1 Qxc6 30. e4 Rf7 31. Rd3 Qg6
32. Rxf3 Rh7 33. Qc5+ Kd7 34. Qf5+ Qxf5 35. Rxf5 h5 36. Kg2 h4 37. Rf7+
Rxf7 38. Rxf7+ Ke8 39. Rf1 hxg3 40. Kxh3 c5 41. Kxg3 a5 42. h4 c4 43. h5
Kd7 44. Rf6 a4 45. h6 c3 46. Bxc3 Ke7 47. h7 Kd7 48. h8=Q Ke7 49. Qg7+ Kd8
50. Rf8# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Farrelly, Eoin"]
[Black "Goss, Alex"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1641"]
[BlackElo "1698"]
[WhiteICU "1549"]
[BlackICU "1595"]
[BlackClub "Elm Mount"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510359"]
[BlackFideId "2509407"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[ECO "E21"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "three knights variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 O-O 5. Bg5 d5 6. e3 Nbd7 7. a3 Bxc3+
8. bxc3 h6 9. Bh4 c5 10. cxd5 exd5 11. Bd3 Qa5 12. Qd2 Ne4 13. Bxe4 dxe4
14. Ng1 Nb6 15. Be7 Nc4 16. Qc1 Re8 17. Bxc5 b6 18. Bb4 Qg5 19. g3 a5 20.
h3 axb4 21. axb4 Rxa1 22. Qxa1 Bb7 23. Ne2 Ra8 24. Qb1 Qb5 25. Qc2 Ra1+ 26.
Nc1 Qg5 27. O-O Nxe3 28. fxe3 Qxg3+ 29. Qg2 Qxe3+ 30. Qf2 Qg5+ 31. Kh2 Rxc1
32. Qf4 Kh7 33. Qxf7 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Putar, Slavko"]
[Black "O'Sullivan, Tom"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1610"]
[BlackElo "1659"]
[BlackICU "1360"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "14557517"]
[BlackFideId "2504375"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Opening "French defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 c5 3. c3 Nc6 4. d5 Ne5 5. f4 Ng6 6. Bc4 d6 7. g3 Nf6 8. dxe6
fxe6 9. Qe2 Be7 10. Nf3 h6 11. O-O Bd7 12. e5 dxe5 13. Nxe5 Nxe5 14. fxe5
Qb6 15. exf6 Bxf6 16. Qh5+ Kd8 17. Qf7 Re8 18. Rd1 Qc6 19. Na3 Qf3 20.
Qxd7# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Kelly, Christopher"]
[Black "Murray, Benjamin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteICU "1578"]
[BlackICU "1299"]
[WhiteClub "N.I.C.S."]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513218"]
[BlackFideId "2512963"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O
8. Qc2 Re8 9. Nge2 c6 10. O-O Nf8 11. Rad1 Bd6 12. e4 Bxh2+ 13. Kh1 Bb8 14.
e5 Qc7 15. Ng3 N6d7 16. Be3 f6 17. f4 Qd8 18. Qf2 Nb6 19. b3 Qe7 20. Nf5
Qf7 21. Kg1 Qh5 22. Ng3 Qf7 23. Nf5 Qh5 24. Ng3 Qf7 25. Qe2 f5 26. Qc2 g6
27. Nh1 Ne6 28. Nf2 Bc7 29. Nh3 Bd8 30. Qf2 Bd7 31. Qg3 Rf8 32. Be2 Kh8
1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.9"]
[White "Phelan, John J."]
[Black "Hackett, William"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1681"]
[BlackElo "1473"]
[WhiteICU "1486"]
[BlackICU "1180"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2503468"]
[BlackFideId "2510502"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[ECO "C11"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Burn variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. f3 exf3 6. Nxf3 Bb4 7. Bd3 Nc6
8. O-O Nxd4 9. Ne4 Be7 10. Ne5 O-O 11. Bxf6 Bxf6 12. Nxf6+ gxf6 13. Bxh7+
Kxh7 14. Qh5+ Kg7 15. Qg4+ Kh7 16. Rf4 f5 17. Qh5+ Kg7 18. Rh4 Kf6 19. Re1
Nxc2 20. Rd1 Qe7 21. Ng4+ fxg4 22. Rf1+ Kg7 23. Qh7# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.10"]
[White "Jordan, Felix"]
[Black "Kavanagh, James"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1530"]
[BlackElo "1605"]
[WhiteICU "1473"]
[BlackICU "1170"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510324"]
[BlackFideId "2510006"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. c4 c5 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. Be2 Qb6
8. Nxd5 Nxd5 9. Qxd5 Bxf2+ 10. Kf1 Nc6 11. Nf3 Be6 12. Qb5 O-O 13. Bf4 Rad8
14. Qxb6 Bxb6 15. Ng5 h6 16. Nf3 Nd4 17. Nxd4 Bxd4 18. Rc1 Rc8 19. b3 b5
20. h3 Rc5 21. Bd6 Rf5+ 22. Bf3 Rc8 23. Ke2 bxc4 24. g4 Rb5 25. Rhd1 Bb2
26. Rc2 Be5 27. bxc4 Bxd6 28. Rxd6 Rxc4 29. Rdd2 Re5+ 30. Kf2 Rxc2 31. Rxc2
Ra5 32. Be4 Rxa2 33. Ke3 Rxc2 34. Bxc2 Kf8 35. Ke4 Ke7 36. Ke5 h5 37. Bd1
hxg4 38. hxg4 f6+ 39. Kf4 g5+ 40. Ke4 Kd6 41. Kf3 Kc5 42. Bc2 Kc4 43. Be4
Bd5 44. Bxd5+ 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.11"]
[White "Whelan, Niall"]
[Black "Venkatesan, Kavin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1582"]
[BlackElo "1481"]
[WhiteICU "1364"]
[BlackICU "1473"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2500809"]
[BlackFideId "2512602"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. a4 e5 7. Nf3 Be7 8.
Bc4 Nc6 9. O-O Bg4 10. Be2 O-O 11. h3 Bh5 12. Bg5 Bg6 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Qd5
Qd7 15. Rad1 Rad8 16. a5 Qc7 17. Ra1 Nd4 18. Nxd4 exd4 19. Na4 Qc4 20. c3
Qxc3 21. Bf3 Qc6 22. Nb6 Qxd5 23. Nxd5 Be5 24. Ne7+ Kh8 25. Rac1 Rd7 26.
Nxg6+ hxg6 27. Be2 f5 28. Bd3 d5 29. exf5 gxf5 30. Rfe1 Bf4 31. Rc2 g6 32.
b4 Rff7 33. b5 axb5 34. Bxb5 Rc7 35. Ra2 Rfe7 36. Rd1 Rc5 37. Bf1 Rc1 38.
Rxc1 Bxc1 39. a6 bxa6 40. Rxa6 Re1 41. Rd6 d3 42. Rxd5 d2 43. Rd8+ Kg7 44.
Rd7+ Kh6 45. Rxd2 Bxd2 46. g3 Rb1 47. Kg2 Rb2 48. Kf3 Rb3+ 49. Ke2 Ba5 50.
g4 f4 51. f3 Re3+ 52. Kf2 Be1+ 53. Kg2 Bg3 54. Ba6 Ra3 55. Bc4 Rc3 56. Ba6
Rc2+ 57. Kf1 Rf2+ 58. Kg1 Rxf3 59. Be2 Rf2 60. Bf1 Kg5 61. Bg2 f3 62. Bf1
Rxf1+ 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.12"]
[White "Murray, Sam"]
[Black "Wang, Zhengjn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1483"]
[WhiteICU "1452"]
[BlackICU "1077"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2508958"]
[BlackFideId "2511339"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. dxc5 Nc6 5. a3 Nxe5 6. b4 Nf6 7. Nf3 Ng6 8.
c4 e5 9. Bb2 d4 10. Qc2 a5 11. Bd3 axb4 12. axb4 Rxa1 13. Bxa1 Bxc5 14. O-O
Bd6 15. Re1 O-O 16. c5 Bb8 17. Bxg6 hxg6 18. Nxe5 Bf5 19. Qd2 Bxe5 20. Rxe5
Bxb1 21. Bxd4 Re8 22. Rxe8+ Nxe8 23. Qb2 Be4 24. f3 Bc6 25. b5 Bxb5 26.
Bxg7 Nxg7 27. Qxb5 Qc7 28. Kf2 Ne6 29. Qb6 Qxc5+ 30. Qxc5 Nxc5 31. Ke3 Ne6
32. h4 Kf8 33. Ke4 Ke7 34. g4 b5 35. Kd5 b4 36. Kc4 b3 37. Kxb3 Nd4+ 38.
Kc3 Nxf3 39. h5 gxh5 40. gxh5 Kf6 41. Kd3 Kg5 42. Ke4 Nh4 43. Ke5 f6+ 44.
Kd4 { An odd finish. Win on time? Incorrect game score? } 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.13"]
[White "Martin, Desmond"]
[Black "Putar, Lara"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1443"]
[WhiteICU "1159"]
[WhiteClub "Naomh Barrog"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[WhiteFideId "2506815"]
[BlackFideId "14546604"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[ECO "D11"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "3.Nf3"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Bf5 5. Bg2 e6 6. O-O Bd6 7. cxd5 exd5 8.
Nc3 O-O 9. Bg5 Nbd7 10. Re1 h6 11. Bd2 Rc8 12. e3 Re8 13. a3 c5 14. Nb5 Bb8
15. dxc5 Nxc5 16. Bf1 Bd3 17. Nc3 Nfe4 18. b4 Nxd2 19. Bxd3 Nxf3+ 20. Qxf3
Nxd3 21. Red1 Rxc3 22. Ra2 Rc1 23. Rd2 Rxd1+ 24. Qxd1 Ne5 25. Rxd5 Qf6 26.
f4 Nc4 27. Rd3 Nb2 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.14"]
[White "O'Hanlon, Joe"]
[Black "Avetisyan, Gagik"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1568"]
[BlackElo "1221"]
[WhiteICU "1426"]
[BlackICU "1110"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "ARM"]
[WhiteFideId "2512157"]
[BlackFideId "13307843"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d5 3. e3 c5 4. Nc3 e6 5. Nb5 Na6 6. a4 Bd7 7. Nf3 c4 8. c3
Qb6 9. b4 Ne4 10. Qc2 Bxb5 11. axb5 Qxb5 12. Be2 Rc8 13. O-O Be7 14. Ra5
Qd7 15. Ne5 Qd8 16. Qa4+ Kf8 17. Qc2 Nxc3 18. Rxa6 Nxe2+ 19. Qxe2 bxa6 20.
Qh5 Qe8 21. Qg4 Bf6 22. Bg5 { ... ? } 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.15"]
[White "Cooney, Thomas"]
[Black "Kirulis, Edgars"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1512"]
[WhiteICU "1108"]
[BlackICU "1408"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512947"]
[BlackFideId "2512025"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.16"]
[White "Bergin, Cian"]
[Black "Fitzpatrick, Kevin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1481"]
[BlackElo "1407"]
[WhiteICU "1481"]
[BlackICU "1178"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "Galway"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512572"]
[BlackFideId "2505886"]
[PlyCount "33"]
[ECO "B06"]
[Opening "Robatsch defence"]
[Variation "three pawns attack"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. f4 e6 4. Nf3 d6 5. e5 d5 6. Bd3 Ne7 7. O-O b6 8. Nbd2
a6 9. g4 h6 10. Nh4 g5 11. f5 gxh4 12. f6 O-O 13. Nf3 Ng6 14. fxg7 Kxg7 15.
g5 h5 16. Nxh4 Nxh4 17. Qxh5 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.17"]
[White "Deneher, Jimmy"]
[Black "Sheahan, Richard"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1730"]
[BlackElo "1348"]
[WhiteICU "1314"]
[BlackICU "1217"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509008"]
[BlackFideId "2513048"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[ECO "D00"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn"]
[Variation "stonewall attack"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. e3 d5 3. Bd3 Bg4 4. Ne2 e6 5. O-O Bd6 6. f4 O-O 7. Qe1 c5 8.
c3 Nbd7 9. Nd2 Ne8 10. Nf3 f5 11. Ne5 Nxe5 12. fxe5 Be7 13. Nf4 Nc7 14. h3
g5 15. hxg4 gxf4 16. Rxf4 Bg5 17. Rf1 fxg4 18. dxc5 Qe7 19. b4 a5 20. Qg3
Qg7 21. b5 Rf7 22. b6 Ne8 23. a4 Rd8 24. Bb5 Rc8 25. Ba3 Qg6 26. Rxf7 Kxf7
27. Rf1+ Kg8 28. Qf2 Ng7 29. c6 Nf5 30. cxb7 Rb8 31. Bc5 Rxb7 32. Bc6 Rb8
33. b7 Qh6 34. Re1 Bh4 35. Qe2 Bxe1 36. Qxg4+ Qg7 37. Qxg7+ Kxg7 38. Ba7
Rxb7 39. Bxb7 Bxc3 40. Kf2 Bxe5 41. Ba6 Kf6 42. Bd3 Bc3 43. g4 Nh6 44. Kf3
Kg5 45. Bxh7 Nxg4 46. Bb6 Ne5+ 47. Ke2 Kf6 48. Bd8+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.18"]
[White "Scott, Shay"]
[Black "Martin, Seamus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1585"]
[WhiteICU "1284"]
[BlackICU "1195"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504413"]
[BlackFideId "2504340"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[ECO "D00"]
[Opening "Blackmar gambit"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]
[BlackFullName "Martin, S&eacute;amus"]

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1. e4 d5 2. d4 dxe4 3. Nc3 h6 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bh7 6. Nf3 e6 7. Bd3 Bxd3
8. Qxd3 Nf6 9. O-O Be7 10. Qb5+ Nbd7 11. Qxb7 Qb8 12. Qxb8+ Rxb8 13. b3 O-O
14. Ne5 Rfd8 15. Nc6 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.19"]
[White "Honner, Mervyn"]
[Black "McGlade, Emmet"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1441"]
[WhiteICU "1187"]
[BlackICU "1226"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504847"]
[BlackFideId "2513242"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.20"]
[White "Dempsey, Denis"]
[Black "Renji, Rafael Ninan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1542"]
[BlackElo "1467"]
[WhiteICU "1197"]
[BlackICU "1122"]
[WhiteClub "Dublin"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2502437"]
[BlackFideId "2512793"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.21"]
[White "Devereux, Rohan"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteICU "1202"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteICUId "17990"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "3.22"]
[White "Scallan, Cillian"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1190"]
[WhiteICU "1138"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511240"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Healy, John"]
[Black "Peoples, Jonathon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1919"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[WhiteICU "1868"]
[BlackICU "1762"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Ballinasloe"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2500965"]
[BlackFideId "2509520"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[ECO "B23"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "closed, 2...Nc6"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Bc4 g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. Be3 d6 7. Nf3 Bg4 8.
Bxf7+ Kxf7 9. Ng5+ Ke8 10. Qxg4 Nxc2+ 11. Kd2 Nh6 12. Qe6 Nxa1 13. Nxh7
Bxc3+ 14. bxc3 Rxh7 15. Qxg6+ Rf7 16. Bxh6 Qb6 17. Qg8+ Kd7 18. Qxf7 Qb2+
19. Ke3 Nc2+ 20. Kf3 Qxc3 21. Rd1 Nd4+ 22. Kg4 Nc6 23. Bg7 Qc2 24. Re1 Qxd3
25. Re3 Qd1+ 26. Kg3 Nd8 27. Qf5+ Ne6 28. Qf7 Nd8 29. Qc4 Qh5 30. Bc3 Qg5+
31. Kf3 Qh5+ 32. g4 Qh3+ 33. Ke2 Qxg4+ 34. Kd2 a6 35. Qd5 e6 36. Qd3 Qf4
37. Ke2 Qxh2 38. Rh3 Qf4 39. Rh7+ Nf7 40. a4 Rg8 41. Be5 Qxe5 42. Rxf7+ Kc6
43. Qb1 Qh5+ 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Bennett, Eric"]
[Black "O'Gorman, Alice"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1829"]
[BlackElo "1868"]
[WhiteICU "1814"]
[BlackICU "1833"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "Dun Laoghaire"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2501384"]
[BlackFideId "2508214"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[ECO "D03"]
[Opening "Torre attack (Tartakower variation)"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg5 e6 4. e3 Be7 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. Bd3 Nbd7 7. O-O b6
8. Qe2 Bb7 9. h3 c5 10. c4 cxd4 11. exd4 dxc4 12. Nxc4 Re8 13. Rad1 Nf8 14.
Nce5 Nd5 15. Bb5 f6 16. Bxe8 Qxe8 17. Bh4 fxe5 18. Bxe7 Qxe7 19. Qxe5 Ng6
20. Qg3 Qf6 21. Rfe1 Re8 22. Ne5 Nxe5 23. Rxe5 Nf4 24. Kh2 Bxg2 25. h4 Bd5
26. Rg1 Re7 27. b3 Rf7 28. Rc1 Bb7 29. Rc2 Rd7 30. Qg5 Qf7 31. Rd2 Ng6 32.
Re3 Rd5 33. Qg3 Qe7 34. Rde2 Rh5 35. f3 Nxh4 36. Qb8+ Kf7 37. Rxe6 Nxf3+
38. Kg3 Qg5+ 39. Kf2 Qg1# 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Putar, Leon"]
[Black "Gallagher, Matthew"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1692"]
[BlackElo "1650"]
[BlackICU "1592"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "14546612"]
[BlackFideId "2507161"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Bd3 Bxd3 5. Qxd3 e6 6. Nf3 c5 7. c3 Nc6 8.
O-O Nge7 9. Be3 Nf5 10. Nbd2 Be7 11. h3 O-O 12. Kh1 Qc7 13. Nh2 Qb6 14.
Ndf3 cxd4 15. cxd4 Rfc8 16. a3 Na5 17. g4 Nxe3 18. fxe3 Qxb2 19. g5 Qc3 20.
Qe2 Qc2 21. Qe1 Nc4 22. Ng4 Kh8 23. Nf6 gxf6 24. gxf6 Bxf6 25. exf6 Qe4 26.
Ra2 Rg8 27. Rff2 Rg3 28. Rg2 Rxf3 29. Kh2 Qxe3 30. Rae2 Rxh3# 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.4"]
[White "Venkatesan, Kavin"]
[Black "Burke, Kevin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1481"]
[BlackElo "1768"]
[WhiteICU "1473"]
[BlackICU "1680"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512602"]
[BlackFideId "2501520"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[ECO "A84"]
[Opening "Dutch defence, Rubinstein variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Qb3 a5 6. Bd2 Bxc3 7. Bxc3 O-O
8. g3 d6 9. Bg2 Qe8 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Nd2 Qg6 12. f4 Qh5 13. Rf3 Rb8 14. h3
b6 15. c5 bxc5 16. Qxe6+ Kh8 17. Qc4 Bb7 18. Re3 Nb6 19. Qd3 Nbd5 20. g4
fxg4 21. hxg4 Qxg4 22. Rg3 Nxf4 23. Rxg4 Nxd3 24. Rh4 Bxg2 25. Kxg2 g5 26.
Rh6 Nf4+ 27. Kf3 N4d5 28. Kg3 Nxc3 29. bxc3 cxd4 30. cxd4 Rb2 31. Nc4 Rxe2
32. Nxa5 Kg7 33. Rhh1 Ne4+ 34. Kg4 Nf2+ 35. Kxg5 Nxh1 36. Rxh1 Rg2+ 37. Kh4
Rf6 38. Kh3 Rg5 39. Kh4 Rxa5 40. Rg1+ Rg6 41. Re1 Rxa2 42. Kh3 Rag2 43.
Re7+ Kh6 44. Rxc7 R2g5 45. Rxh7+ Kxh7 46. Kh4 Rg1 47. Kh3 Rh6# 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Paronyan, Vahe"]
[Black "Murray, Sam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1765"]
[BlackElo "1483"]
[WhiteICU "1641"]
[BlackICU "1452"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512564"]
[BlackFideId "2508958"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[ECO "B43"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Kan, 5.Nc3"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Qc7 6. Be2 Bb4 7. Bd2 Nf6
8. Bd3 O-O 9. O-O Nc6 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. f4 Bc5+ 12. Kh1 Bd4 13. e5 Bxc3 14.
bxc3 Nd5 15. Rf3 f5 16. c4 Ne7 17. c5 a5 18. Rh3 Ba6 19. c4 Rfb8 20. Qh5 h6
21. g4 fxg4 22. Qxg4 Kf8 23. Rg1 Nf5 24. Bxf5 g5 25. Rxh6 Bxc4 26. Rh8+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.6"]
[White "Putar, Lara"]
[Black "Phelan, Leo"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1443"]
[BlackElo "1620"]
[BlackICU "1631"]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "14546604"]
[BlackFideId "2511428"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[ECO "E63"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "fianchetto, Panno variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. g3 O-O 5. Bg2 d6 6. Nc3 Nc6 7. O-O a6 8.
Re1 Bd7 9. a3 Na5 10. Qd3 Nb3 11. Rb1 Nxc1 12. Rbxc1 Rb8 13. Rc2 c6 14. Nd2
Re8 15. Nde4 Nxe4 16. Bxe4 Rc8 17. Rec1 e6 18. Bg2 d5 19. c5 e5 20. e4 exd4
21. Na4 dxe4 22. Bxe4 Qe7 23. Re2 Qg5 24. Rce1 f5 25. Bg2 Rxe2 26. Rxe2 Re8
27. Rxe8+ Bxe8 28. Qb3+ Bf7 29. Qd3 Qe7 30. b4 Qe6 31. Nb6 Qb3 32. Bf1 Qxd3
33. Bxd3 Be6 34. Kf1 Kf7 35. Ke2 Kf6 36. Nc4 Bxc4 37. Bxc4 h5 38. h4 Ke7
39. Kd3 Be5 40. f4 Bf6 41. a4 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.7"]
[White "Kirulis, Edgars"]
[Black "Putar, Slavko"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1512"]
[BlackElo "1610"]
[WhiteICU "1408"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[WhiteFideId "2512025"]
[BlackFideId "14557517"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[ECO "C07"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Tarrasch, open variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Bc4 Qd8 7. Nb3 cxd4
8. Nfxd4 Bd7 9. O-O Nf6 10. Bf4 a6 11. Re1 Be7 12. Nf3 O-O 13. Ne5 Nxe5 14.
Bxe5 Rc8 15. Bd3 Bc6 16. Nd4 Be8 17. Qf3 Qb6 18. Nb3 Bc6 19. Qh3 g6 20. Bd4
Qd8 21. Rad1 Qc7 22. Be5 Qb6 23. Bd4 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.8"]
[White "Goss, Alex"]
[Black "Kavanagh, James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1698"]
[BlackElo "1605"]
[WhiteICU "1595"]
[BlackICU "1170"]
[WhiteClub "Elm Mount"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509407"]
[BlackFideId "2510006"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[ECO "E00"]
[Opening "Catalan opening"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 c5 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O O-O 7. e3 d5 8.
Nbd2 Nbd7 9. cxd5 exd5 10. dxc5 Nxc5 11. Nb3 Qb6 12. Nxc5 Qxc5 13. Qb3 Ne4
14. Bd2 Qb6 15. Qxd5 Nxd2 16. Qxd2 Rd8 17. Qe2 Bd7 18. a4 Bf5 19. Rfd1 Bxb2
20. Rxd8+ Rxd8 21. Rd1 Rc8 22. e4 Be6 23. Ng5 Bb3 24. Rb1 Bc2 25. Re1 Qb3
26. e5 Bc3 27. e6 Bxe1 28. exf7+ Kf8 29. Qe5 Bxf2+ 30. Kxf2 Qb6+ 31. Ke2
Qa6+ 32. Ke1 Bf5 33. Nxh7+ Kxf7 34. Bd5+ Be6 35. Bxe6+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.9"]
[White "Avetisyan, Gagik"]
[Black "Phelan, John J."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1221"]
[BlackElo "1681"]
[WhiteICU "1110"]
[BlackICU "1486"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "ARM"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "13307843"]
[BlackFideId "2503468"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[ECO "D08"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Albin counter-gambit"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. e3 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 dxe3 7. fxe3 Bg4
8. Be2 Bxf3 9. Bxf3 Qh4+ 10. g3 Qxc4 11. Bxc6+ Qxc6 12. O-O Bxd2 13. Nxd2
Nh6 14. Rc1 Qb6 15. Nc4 Qa6 16. Qc2 O-O 17. b3 Rad8 18. Rf4 Qe6 19. Rcf1 b5
20. Na5 Qxe5 21. Re4 Rd2 22. Qxd2 Qxe4 23. Rf4 Qe6 24. Qd3 Re8 25. Qxb5
Qxe3+ 26. Kh1 Qe1+ 27. Rf1 Qe4+ 28. Kg1 Ng4 29. Qd7 Qe3+ 30. Kh1 Nf6 31.
Qb5 h5 32. Nc4 Qe2 33. Na3 Qe4+ 34. Kg1 h4 35. Rf4 Qe3+ 36. Kg2 hxg3 37.
hxg3 Qd2+ 38. Rf2 Qd5+ 39. Kh3 Qe6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.10"]
[White "Dimitrov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Farrelly, Eoin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1333"]
[BlackElo "1641"]
[WhiteICU "1104"]
[BlackICU "1549"]
[WhiteClub "Skerries"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511649"]
[BlackFideId "2510359"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Opening "French defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. Bc4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Qe2+ Be7 5. Nf3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 Nc6 7. O-O
Nf6 8. Ng5 O-O 9. Nc3 Ng4 10. Nf3 Nge5 11. Qe4 Nxf3+ 12. Qxf3 Re8 13. a4
Nd4 14. Qd1 Bd6 15. Na2 Qh4 16. g3 Qh3 17. c3 Ne2+ 18. Kh1 Nxg3+ 19. fxg3
Bxg3 20. Rf2 Bxf2 21. d4 Re1+ 22. Qxe1 Qf3# 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.11"]
[White "Murray, Benjamin"]
[Black "Scallan, Cillian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1190"]
[WhiteICU "1299"]
[BlackICU "1138"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512963"]
[BlackFideId "2511240"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[ECO "C54"]
[Opening "Giuoco Piano"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2
Nxe4 8. Bxb4 Nxb4 9. Bxf7+ Kxf7 10. Qb3+ Ke8 11. Qxb4 Qe7 12. Qxe7+ Kxe7
13. Ke2 d6 14. Nc3 Nf6 15. Rhe1 Kf7 16. Kd2 Bf5 17. Rac1 c6 18. h3 Rhe8 19.
g4 Ne4+ 20. Nxe4 Bxe4 21. Rxe4 Rxe4 22. Ng5+ Kg6 23. Nxe4 d5 24. Nc5 b6 25.
Nd3 Rc8 26. Rxc6+ Rxc6 27. Ne5+ Kg5 28. Nxc6 Kh4 29. Ne7 Kxh3 30. f3 Kg3
31. Ke3 g6 32. Nxd5 h5 33. gxh5 gxh5 34. Nf4 h4 35. d5 h3 36. Nxh3 Kxh3 37.
d6 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.12"]
[White "O'Hanlon, Joe"]
[Black "Bergin, Cian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1568"]
[BlackElo "1481"]
[WhiteICU "1426"]
[BlackICU "1481"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512157"]
[BlackFideId "2512572"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[ECO "A36"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "ultra-symmetrical variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. e3 Nf6 6. Nge2 d6 7. O-O O-O 8.
d3 Rb8 9. a3 e6 10. Rb1 d5 11. cxd5 Nxd5 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. d4 cxd4 14. Nxd4
Nxd4 15. exd4 Bf5 16. Bf4 Bxb1 17. Bxb8 Qxb8 18. Qxb1 Bxd4 19. Bxd5 Qe5 20.
Qa2 Bxb2 21. Rb1 Bxa3 22. Rxb7 Bc5 23. Rxf7 Rxf7 24. Bxf7+ Kg7 25. Bd5 Bb6
26. Bg8 Bc5 27. Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.13"]
[White "Honner, Mervyn"]
[Black "Jordan, Felix"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1441"]
[BlackElo "1530"]
[WhiteICU "1187"]
[BlackICU "1473"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504847"]
[BlackFideId "2510324"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 Be7 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. Ne5
Nd7 8. f4 Bxe5 9. dxe5 c6 10. Qd4 O-O 11. Nc3 Re8 12. O-O-O f6 13. Re1 fxe5
14. fxe5 Qg5+ 15. Kb1 Rxe5 16. Rxe5 Qxe5 17. Qh4 Nf6 18. Bd3 Bd7 19. Re1
Qd6 20. h3 Re8 21. Rf1 Qe5 22. g4 Ne4 23. Nxe4 dxe4 24. Bc4+ Be6 25. Rf5
Qd6 26. Bxe6+ Rxe6 27. a3 Qd1+ 28. Ka2 e3 29. Qg3 Qd8 30. Qe1 e2 31. c4 Qd1
32. Qf2 Re8 33. Qxa7 e1=Q 34. Qxb7 Qa1+ 35. Kb3 Qed1+ 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.14"]
[White "Hackett, William"]
[Black "Whelan, Niall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1473"]
[BlackElo "1582"]
[WhiteICU "1180"]
[BlackICU "1364"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510502"]
[BlackFideId "2500809"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[ECO "D20"]
[Opening "Queen's gambit accepted"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bf5 5. Bxc4 e6 6. Qb3 b6 7. Nf3 Bd6 8.
Bd2 O-O 9. O-O Nc6 10. Bb5 Na5 11. Qd1 c6 12. Ba4 Qc7 13. Re1 b5 14. Bb3
Bg4 15. h3 Nxb3 16. axb3 Bxf3 17. Qxf3 Bb4 18. Rec1 Qd6 19. Nb1 Nd5 20.
Bxb4 Nxb4 21. Na3 Rfc8 22. Nc2 Nd3 23. Rd1 Nb4 24. Rdc1 Nd3 25. Rd1 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.15"]
[White "O'Sullivan, Tom"]
[Black "Cooney, Thomas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1659"]
[WhiteICU "1360"]
[BlackICU "1108"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504375"]
[BlackFideId "2512947"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line, 5...c6"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 Bf5 7. Bd3 Bxd3
8. Qxd3 Nbd7 9. O-O-O Be7 10. f3 Rc8 11. Kb1 b5 12. Rc1 b4 13. Nd1 a5 14.
e4 dxe4 15. fxe4 O-O 16. e5 Nd5 17. Bxe7 Qxe7 18. Ne3 Nxe3 19. Qxe3 Nb6 20.
Ne2 a4 21. Qf3 Qe6 22. Rhf1 Nd7 23. Nf4 Qh6 24. Qh5 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.16"]
[White "Renji, Rafael Ninan"]
[Black "Scott, Shay"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1467"]
[BlackElo "1585"]
[WhiteICU "1122"]
[BlackICU "1284"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512793"]
[BlackFideId "2504413"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Opening "Scandinavian"]
[Variation "Marshall variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. d4 Nxd5 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Be2 e6 6. O-O Be7 7. c4 Nb6
8. b3 O-O 9. Nc3 c6 10. Be3 a5 11. Qd2 N8d7 12. Rad1 Nf6 13. Ne5 Bxe2 14.
Qxe2 Nfd7 15. Qf3 Nxe5 16. dxe5 Qc7 17. Qg3 f5 18. c5 Nd7 19. Na4 f4 20.
Bxf4 Nxc5 21. Nxc5 Bxc5 22. Be3 Ba3 23. Bc1 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.17"]
[White "Sheahan, Richard"]
[Black "Wang, Zhengjn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1348"]
[WhiteICU "1217"]
[BlackICU "1077"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513048"]
[BlackFideId "2511339"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[ECO "D10"]
[Opening "QGD Slav defence, Alekhine variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. e4 b5 5. a4 Qb6 6. Be3 e6 7. d5 Bc5 8.
Bxc5 Qxc5 9. dxc6 b4 10. c7 Nd7 11. Nb5 Ngf6 12. f3 O-O 13. Qd4 a6 14. Qxc5
Nxc5 15. Nd6 Nd3+ 16. Bxd3 cxd3 17. Rd1 Ra7 18. Nxc8 Rxc8 19. Rxd3 Raxc7
20. Ne2 h6 21. Kf2 Rc2 22. Rb3 a5 23. Rd1 Nh5 24. Ke3 f5 25. exf5 exf5 26.
Rd2 f4+ 27. Kd3 Rxd2+ 28. Kxd2 Rd8+ 29. Rd3 Ra8 30. Rd5 Nf6 31. Rf5 Rd8+
32. Ke1 Nd5 33. Nxf4 Nxf4 34. Rxf4 Rd5 35. Ke2 Rc5 36. Kd3 g5 37. Rc4 Rd5+
38. Rd4 Rc5 39. f4 g4 40. f5 h5 41. Rf4 Kf7 42. f6 b3 43. Rf2 Rc6 44. Rf5
Rc2 45. Rxa5 Rxb2 46. Rxh5 Rxg2 47. Rb5 Rxh2 48. a5 g3 49. Rxb3 g2 50. a6
g1=Q 51. Rb7+ Kxf6 52. a7 Qd1+ 53. Kc4 Rc2+ 54. Kb5 Qb1+ 55. Ka6 Ra2# 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.18"]
[White "Fitzpatrick, Kevin"]
[Black "Deneher, Jimmy"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1407"]
[BlackElo "1730"]
[WhiteICU "1178"]
[BlackICU "1314"]
[WhiteClub "Galway"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2505886"]
[BlackFideId "2509008"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[ECO "D00"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. e3 g6 3. Bd3 Bg7 4. f4 Nc6 5. c3 Nf6 6. Nd2 Bg4 7. Ngf3 Qd7 8.
O-O O-O-O 9. Qa4 Kb8 10. Bb5 Qe6 11. Nb3 Bxf3 12. Rxf3 Ne4 13. Nd2 f5 14.
c4 Nxd4 15. exd4 Bxd4+ 16. Kf1 Nxd2+ 17. Bxd2 Qf6 18. Bc3 Bxc3 19. Rxc3 c6
20. Ba6 dxc4 21. Qb4 Rd7 22. Rxc4 Rhd8 23. Re1 c5 24. Qb5 Qxa6 25. Qxa6
bxa6 26. Rxc5 Kb7 27. Rc2 Kb6 28. Rce2 Re8 29. Re6+ Kb7 30. R1e3 Rd1+ 31.
Ke2 Rd7 32. Rb3+ Ka8 33. Rxa6 Rc8 34. Rc3 Rxc3 35. bxc3 Kb7 36. Re6 Kc7 37.
Ra6 Kd8 38. c4 Ke8 39. Ke3 Kf7 40. c5 Ke8 41. Rc6 Kd8 42. a4 Rc7 43. Ra6
Kd7 44. Kd4 Kc8 45. c6 Kd8 46. Ke5 Ke8 47. Ke6 Rc8 48. h3 h5 49. g3 Rc7 50.
h4 Rc8 51. Kd5 Rc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.19"]
[White "Martin, Seamus"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteICU "1195"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504340"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]
[WhiteFullName "Martin, S&eacute;amus"]

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1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.20"]
[White "McGlade, Emmet"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteICU "1226"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513242"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.21"]
[White "Kelly, Christopher"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteICU "1578"]
[WhiteClub "N.I.C.S."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513218"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.22"]
[White "Dempsey, Denis"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1542"]
[WhiteICU "1197"]
[WhiteClub "Dublin"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2502437"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.23"]
[White "Martin, Desmond"]
[Black "Bye"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteICU "1159"]
[WhiteClub "Naomh Barrog"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2506815"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.22"]
[Round "4.24"]
[White "Devereux, Rohan"]
[Black "Did not play"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteICU "1202"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteICUId "17990"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Gallagher, Matthew"]
[Black "Peoples, Jonathon"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1650"]
[BlackElo "1856"]
[WhiteICU "1592"]
[BlackICU "1762"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "Ballinasloe"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2507161"]
[BlackFideId "2509520"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[ECO "D87"]
[Opening "Gruenfeld"]
[Variation "exchange, Spassky variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 c5 7. Bc4 Bg7
8. Ne2 O-O 9. O-O Nc6 10. Be3 Qc7 11. Qc2 Rd8 12. Rfd1 Na5 13. Bb3 Nxb3 14.
Qxb3 Be6 15. Qa4 cxd4 16. cxd4 Qc4 17. Qxc4 Bxc4 18. Nc1 Rac8 19. Nb3 Rc7
20. Rab1 Rdc8 21. d5 b6 22. f3 e6 23. dxe6 Bxe6 24. Rdc1 Rc2 25. Rxc2 Rxc2
26. Rd1 Kf8 27. Rd2 Rxd2 28. Bxd2 Ke7 29. Kf2 Kd6 30. Bb4+ Kc6 31. Ke3 Kb5
32. Bd6 Ka4 33. Nc1 b5 34. Kd2 Bc4 35. Kc2 Bf1 36. Nd3 Bxd3+ 37. Kxd3 b4
38. Kc2 Bc3 39. g4 Kb5 40. Kb3 a5 41. a4+ Kc6 42. Be7 Be5 43. h3 Bd6 44.
Bd8 Bc7 45. Bf6 Kd6 46. Kc4 Ke6 47. Bd4 f5 48. exf5+ gxf5 49. Be3 Kf6 50.
Kd3 Kg6 51. Kc4 Kf6 52. Kd3 Ke6 53. h4 Kf6 54. Kc4 Kg6 55. h5+ Kf6 56. Kd3
fxg4 57. fxg4 Ke5 58. g5 Kf5 59. g6 hxg6 60. hxg6 Kxg6 61. Kc4 Kf5 62. Bc5
Ke4 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "O'Gorman, Alice"]
[Black "Healy, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1868"]
[BlackElo "1919"]
[WhiteICU "1833"]
[BlackICU "1868"]
[WhiteClub "Dun Laoghaire"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2508214"]
[BlackFideId "2500965"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[ECO "B46"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Qc7 7. Qd2 b5 8.
f3 Bb7 9. O-O-O Nf6 10. g4 Bb4 11. g5 Ng8 12. a3 Nxd4 13. Bxd4 Bf8 14. Bg2
Ne7 15. Rhe1 d5 16. exd5 Nxd5 17. Be5 Bd6 18. Nxd5 Bxd5 19. Bxd6 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Paronyan, Vahe"]
[Black "Bennett, Eric"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1765"]
[BlackElo "1829"]
[WhiteICU "1641"]
[BlackICU "1814"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512564"]
[BlackFideId "2501384"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[ECO "B85"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Scheveningen, classical"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 d6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Be2 a6 7. Be3 Qc7
8. O-O e6 9. f4 Be7 10. Kh1 Bd7 11. a3 Rc8 12. Bd3 b5 13. Nce2 Nxd4 14.
Nxd4 d5 15. e5 Ne4 16. c3 f5 17. a4 bxa4 18. Bxa6 Rb8 19. Qe2 Bc5 20. Bb5
Bxd4 21. Bxd7+ Qxd7 22. Bxd4 O-O 23. Qc2 Ra8 24. Ra3 Ra6 25. Rfa1 Rfa8 26.
Qe2 Qc6 27. b4 Qb7 28. Rb1 h6 29. Rba1 Kh7 30. h4 Ng3+ 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.4"]
[White "Burke, Kevin"]
[Black "Goss, Alex"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1768"]
[BlackElo "1698"]
[WhiteICU "1680"]
[BlackICU "1595"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Elm Mount"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2501520"]
[BlackFideId "2509407"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[ECO "C19"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Winawer, advance, poisoned pawn, Konstantinopolsky variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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report</a>. } { Annotator: Kevin Burke, <a
href="https://stbenilduschessclub.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/benildus-dominate-at-st-andrews/#more-8022">Benildus
dominate at St Andrew's</a>, St. Benildus C.C. web site, September 30,
2018. }

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7 7. Qg4 Qc7 8.
Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Ne2 Nbc6 11. f4 dxc3 12. Qd3 Bd7 13. Rb1 Rc8 14.
Rg1 Na5 15. g4 a6 16. h4 Bb5 17. Rxb5 axb5 18. Qxb5+ Nac6 19. Be3 Ra8 20.
Bb6 Qd7 21. Nxc3 Ng6 22. h5 Nxf4 23. Be3 d4 24. Ne4 Nd5 25. Nd6+ Ke7 26.
Nxb7 dxe3 27. Qc5+ Ke8 28. Nd6+ Kd8 29. Bb5 Kc7 30. Rf1 f6 31. c4 e2 32.
Kxe2 Nc3+ 33. Ke3 Rxg4 34. Rxf6 (34. Rxf6 Ne4 $3 $19 { (Kevin Burke). })
1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.5"]
[White "Farrelly, Eoin"]
[Black "Putar, Leon"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1641"]
[BlackElo "1692"]
[WhiteICU "1549"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[WhiteFideId "2510359"]
[BlackFideId "14546612"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[ECO "A84"]
[Opening "Dutch defence, Rubinstein variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 d5 6. Bd3 O-O 7. Qc2 Ne4 8.
Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Nf3 c6 10. O-O-O Bd7 11. Ne5 Na6 12. a3 Rab8 13. c5 Nc7 14.
Bxe4 dxe4 15. f4 Nd5 16. Nxd5 cxd5 17. Nxd7 Qxd7 18. Kd2 Qb5 19. Rb1 Rf6
20. b4 Rg6 21. g3 h5 22. Rhg1 h4 23. a4 Qd7 24. b5 Rc8 25. Rbc1 Rh6 26. Ke1
hxg3 27. hxg3 a6 28. bxa6 bxa6 29. Kf2 Qf7 30. Rh1 Qg6 31. Rh3 Rh5 32. Rxh5
Qh6 33. Rg1 Qxh5 34. Qe2 Qe8 35. Qxa6 Ra8 36. Qb5 Qh5 37. Qe2 Qe8 38. Ra1
Rb8 39. a5 Kf7 40. a6 Qh8 41. a7 $2 (41. Kg2 $18) 41... Ra8 $2 (41... Qh2+
$10) 42. Kg2 Qh6 43. Qa6 $4 (43. Qd1 $1 $18) 43... Rh8 44. Rg1 Qh5 45. Qf1
Qh2# 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.6"]
[White "Phelan, Leo"]
[Black "Kirulis, Edgars"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1620"]
[BlackElo "1512"]
[WhiteICU "1631"]
[BlackICU "1408"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511428"]
[BlackFideId "2512025"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[ECO "B30"]
[Opening "Sicilian defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 Nf6 6. O-O O-O 7. Nc3 d6 8.
h3 Nd4 9. Nxd4 cxd4 10. Ne2 e5 11. f4 Ne8 12. g4 Nc7 13. f5 f6 14. Ng3 Bd7
15. h4 Be8 16. g5 Qd7 17. Bh3 Qd8 18. Qg4 Kf7 19. h5 Ke7 20. fxg6 hxg6 21.
hxg6 Bd7 22. Qh4 Ne8 23. gxf6+ Bxf6 24. Qh7+ Ng7 25. Rxf6 Rxf6 26. Qxg7+
Ke8 27. Bxd7+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.7"]
[White "Putar, Slavko"]
[Black "Putar, Lara"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1610"]
[BlackElo "1443"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "CRO"]
[WhiteFideId "14557517"]
[BlackFideId "14546604"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Labourdonnais variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. f4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. c3 a6 6. d4 c4 7. b3 b5 8. a4 Bd7
9. b4 Nh6 10. Be2 Be7 11. O-O Nf5 12. g4 Nh6 13. h3 Bh4 14. Bd2 Bg3 15. Kg2
Bh4 16. g5 Nf5 17. Kh2 h6 18. Rg1 Bf2 19. Rg2 Ne3 20. Bxe3 Bxe3 21. Rg4
hxg5 22. Nxg5 f5 23. Rg2 Bxf4+ 24. Kg1 Bxg5 25. axb5 Be3+ 26. Rf2 Bxf2+ 27.
Kxf2 Qh4+ 28. Ke3 Qe4+ 29. Kd2 Rxh3 30. bxc6 Bxc6 31. Qg1 Qf4+ 32. Kd1 g5
33. Nd2 Qe3 34. Qg2 Qxc3 35. Rc1 Qg3 36. Bf1 Ba4+ 37. Rc2 Bxc2+ 38. Kxc2
Qxg2 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.8"]
[White "Phelan, John J."]
[Black "Murray, Benjamin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1681"]
[WhiteICU "1486"]
[BlackICU "1299"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2503468"]
[BlackFideId "2512963"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[ECO "C15"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Winawer, fingerslip variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. e4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bd2 Nf6 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Qg4 Bf8 7. Bg5 f6 8.
Qxe6+ Be7 9. exf6 Nxf6 10. Qe5 O-O 11. Bxf6 Bxf6 12. Qxd5+ Kh8 13. Nf3 Nc6
14. O-O-O Bg4 15. Qe4 Bxf3 16. gxf3 Re8 17. Qg4 Re7 18. Bd3 Qxd4 19. Qh5
Qh4 20. Qg4 Ne5 21. Qxh4 Bxh4 22. Be4 c6 23. f4 Ng4 24. Rhf1 Nxf2 25. Rde1
Nxe4 26. Rxe4 Rxe4 27. Nxe4 Rf8 28. Nd6 b6 29. f5 Bg5+ 30. Kb1 Kg8 31. Ne4
Bf6 32. c3 Be5 33. h4 Bf6 34. h5 Kf7 35. Kc2 Rd8 36. a4 a5 37. Rf3 Rd5 38.
Rf1 Rd8 39. Rf3 Rd5 40. Rf1 Rd8 41. Rf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.9"]
[White "Bergin, Cian"]
[Black "Avetisyan, Gagik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1481"]
[BlackElo "1221"]
[WhiteICU "1481"]
[BlackICU "1110"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "ARM"]
[WhiteFideId "2512572"]
[BlackFideId "13307843"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[ECO "C03"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Tarrasch, Guimard variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nc6 4. Ngf3 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Nf6 6. Nxf6+ Qxf6 7. Bg5
Qf5 8. Bd3 Qa5+ 9. Bd2 Qb6 10. Bc3 Bb4 11. O-O Bd7 12. a3 Bxc3 13. bxc3 Qa5
14. c4 Ne7 15. Qd2 Qh5 16. Rab1 Bc6 17. Ne5 b6 18. Nxc6 Nxc6 19. Be4 Kd7
20. d5 exd5 21. Bxd5 Qe5 22. Bxf7+ Qd6 23. Qe2 Nd4 24. Qg4+ Ke7 25. Qxg7
Qf6 26. Rfe1+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.10"]
[White "Murray, Sam"]
[Black "Kelly, Christopher"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1483"]
[WhiteICU "1452"]
[BlackICU "1578"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[BlackClub "N.I.C.S."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2508958"]
[BlackFideId "2513218"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[ECO "D03"]
[Opening "Torre attack (Tartakower variation)"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bg5 Ne4 4. Bf4 c5 5. c3 Nc6 6. e3 Qb6 7. Qb3 Qxb3 8.
axb3 a6 9. Nbd2 Nxd2 10. Kxd2 cxd4 11. exd4 Bg4 12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. Bxe5 e6
14. Bb5+ Kd8 15. h3 Bh5 16. g4 Bg6 17. g5 Rc8 18. Bd3 Bxd3 19. Kxd3 Ke7 20.
Bg3 f6 21. h4 Kf7 22. c4 Be7 23. gxf6 gxf6 24. c5 h5 25. b4 Rhd8 26. Rhe1
Rc6 27. b5 axb5 28. Ra5 Ra6 29. Rxb5 Rd7 30. Bf4 Bf8 31. Kc3 Bg7 32. Kb4
Kg6 33. Rb6 Rxb6+ 34. cxb6 Kf5 35. Bg3 e5 36. Rc1 Bf8+ 37. Kc3 Bh6 38. Re1
Bg7 39. dxe5 fxe5 40. Kd3 Rd6 41. Rc1 Rxb6 42. Rc7 e4+ 43. Ke2 Rxb2+ 44.
Kf1 Be5 45. Bxe5 Kxe5 46. Rh7 d4 47. Rxh5+ Kf4 48. Kg2 e3 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.11"]
[White "Wang, Zhengjn"]
[Black "Venkatesan, Kavin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1481"]
[WhiteICU "1077"]
[BlackICU "1473"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511339"]
[BlackFideId "2512602"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[ECO "E30"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Leningrad variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Bg5 Bb4+ 4. Nc3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 h6 6. Bh4 b6 7. Nf3 Bb7
8. e3 g5 9. Bg3 Ne4 10. Rc1 d6 11. Be2 Nd7 12. Qc2 Qe7 13. O-O O-O-O 14.
Nd2 f5 15. Nxe4 Bxe4 16. Qa4 Kb8 17. f3 Bb7 18. Bd3 Rdg8 19. e4 f4 20. Bf2
g4 21. Bh4 Qxh4 22. Qxd7 gxf3 23. Rxf3 Qg4 24. Rf2 f3 25. h3 Qf4 26. Rcf1
Qg3 27. Rd2 fxg2 28. Qxe6 gxf1=Q+ 29. Kxf1 Rf8+ 30. Ke2 Rf2+ 31. Kd1 Rxd2+
32. Kxd2 Rf8 33. Qxh6 Qf4+ 34. Qxf4 Rxf4 35. d5 Rh4 36. Ke3 Rxh3+ 37. Kd4
Rh2 38. Bb1 Rb2 39. Bd3 Rxa2 40. Bf1 Ra1 41. Be2 a5 42. Bg4 a4 43. Bd7 a3
44. Ba4 Rb1 45. c5 bxc5+ 46. Kc4 Ba6+ 47. Bb5 Bxb5# 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.12"]
[White "Kavanagh, James"]
[Black "O'Sullivan, Tom"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1605"]
[BlackElo "1659"]
[WhiteICU "1170"]
[BlackICU "1360"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510006"]
[BlackFideId "2504375"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d6 3. Nf3 Bf5 4. e3 h6 5. h3 Nbd7 6. Nbd2 c5 7. Nb3 Rc8 8.
c3 cxd4 9. Nfxd4 Bh7 10. Nf3 e5 11. Bg3 Be7 12. Be2 O-O 13. O-O Ne8 14.
Nfd2 f5 15. f4 e4 16. Nd4 Nc7 17. Qb3+ Kh8 18. Qxb7 Nc5 19. Qxa7 Ra8 20.
Qb6 Ra6 21. Bxa6 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.13"]
[White "Scallan, Cillian"]
[Black "O'Hanlon, Joe"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1190"]
[BlackElo "1568"]
[WhiteICU "1138"]
[BlackICU "1426"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511240"]
[BlackFideId "2512157"]
[PlyCount "35"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bd3 c5 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Bg5 O-O
8. Nc3 Re8+ 9. Be2 Qb6 10. Bxf6 Qxf6 11. Qd3 d4 12. Qxd4 { This move and
Black's reply are so bizarre that the score must be corrupted somehow; but
this is what was shown on live boards. } 12... Qe7 13. Qd5 Be6 14. O-O Nc6
15. Qe4 a6 16. a3 Qc7 17. Rad1 g6 18. Ng5 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.14"]
[White "Whelan, Niall"]
[Black "Martin, Desmond"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1582"]
[WhiteICU "1364"]
[BlackICU "1159"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines"]
[BlackClub "Naomh Barrog"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2500809"]
[BlackFideId "2506815"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[ECO "B10"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "Hillbilly attack"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c6 2. Bc4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bb5+ Nc6 5. d4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bg4 7. f3 Bf5
8. Nge2 g6 9. Ng3 Bd7 10. O-O Bg7 11. Be3 O-O 12. Qd2 a6 13. Bd3 b5 14.
Nce2 Qc7 15. c3 Rfe8 16. Bg5 e5 17. Bc2 Be6 18. dxe5 Nxe5 19. Nd4 Nc4 20.
Qc1 Nd7 21. Nxe6 fxe6 22. Bb3 Rac8 23. Bxc4 Qxc4 24. Qd2 Qc5+ 25. Be3 Qe7
26. a4 Ne5 27. b3 Nxf3+ 28. Rxf3 Bxc3 29. Qd1 Bxa1 30. Qxa1 bxa4 31. Qxa4
Qd8 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.15"]
[White "Scott, Shay"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Nikolai"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1585"]
[BlackElo "1333"]
[WhiteICU "1284"]
[BlackICU "1104"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Skerries"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504413"]
[BlackFideId "2511649"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[ECO "B20"]
[Opening "Sicilian defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. d3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e5 4. g3 Nf6 5. Bg2 d5 6. Nbd2 d4 7. a4 a5 8. O-O
Bg4 9. h3 Be6 10. Ng5 Qd7 11. f4 h6 12. Nxe6 Qxe6 13. f5 Qd7 14. Nc4 Qc7
15. g4 Be7 16. g5 Nd7 17. g6 O-O-O 18. Na3 Rdf8 19. Nb5 Qd8 20. Bf3 fxg6
21. fxg6 Rf6 22. Bh5 Rhf8 23. Rxf6 Rxf6 24. Qg4 Kb8 25. Bd2 Nf8 26. Bxh6
gxh6 27. g7 Ng6 28. Bxg6 Qg8 29. Bh7 h5 30. Qg2 Qxh7 31. g8=Q+ Qxg8 32.
Qxg8+ Bf8 33. Rf1 Ne7 34. Rxf6 b6 35. Qxf8+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.16"]
[White "Cooney, Thomas"]
[Black "Hackett, William"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1473"]
[WhiteICU "1108"]
[BlackICU "1180"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512947"]
[BlackFideId "2510502"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.17"]
[White "Deneher, Jimmy"]
[Black "Renji, Rafael Ninan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1730"]
[BlackElo "1467"]
[WhiteICU "1314"]
[BlackICU "1122"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509008"]
[BlackFideId "2512793"]
[PlyCount "137"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. e3 g6 3. Bd3 Bg7 4. f4 O-O 5. Nf3 d5 6. h3 Nc6 7. c3 Bd7 8.
Nbd2 e6 9. O-O Qe7 10. Ne5 Nxe5 11. fxe5 Ne8 12. Nf3 f6 13. exf6 Bxf6 14.
e4 dxe4 15. Bxe4 Nd6 16. Bc2 Bc6 17. Bh6 Bg7 18. Bxg7 Kxg7 19. Qe2 Nf5 20.
Qe5+ Kg8 21. Bb3 Rae8 22. Rae1 Bd5 23. Bxd5 exd5 24. Qxd5+ Qf7 25. Qxf7+
Kxf7 26. Rxe8 Kxe8 27. Ne5 Ke7 28. g4 Nd6 29. Rxf8 Kxf8 30. Kg2 Ke7 31. Kf3
Kf6 32. h4 g5 33. h5 Ke6 34. Ke3 c6 35. b3 a6 36. Nf3 h6 37. Ne5 Nb5 38.
Kd3 Nd6 39. c4 Ne8 40. c5 Nf6 41. a4 Nd5 42. Nc4 Nf6 43. Ne3 Nd5 44. Nf5
Ne7 45. Nxh6 Kf6 46. Ke4 Nd5 47. Nf5 Nf4 48. Nd6 Nd5 49. Nxb7 Nc3+ 50. Kf3
Nd5 51. Nd8 Nb4 52. Ke4 Ke7 53. Nb7 Ke6 54. Na5 Kf6 55. h6 Kg6 56. Ke5 Kxh6
57. Kd6 Nd5 58. Nxc6 Ne3 59. Ne5 Kg7 60. c6 Kf6 61. c7 Nc4+ 62. Nxc4 a5 63.
c8=Q Kg7 64. Qe6 Kh7 65. Qf6 Kg8 66. Qe7 Kh8 67. Ke6 Kg8 68. Kf6 Kh8 69.
Qg7# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.18"]
[White "McGlade, Emmet"]
[Black "Fitzpatrick, Kevin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackElo "1407"]
[WhiteICU "1226"]
[BlackICU "1178"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[BlackClub "Galway"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513242"]
[BlackFideId "2505886"]
[PlyCount "98"]
[ECO "B00"]
[Opening "Owen defence"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 b6 2. d4 e6 3. a3 Bb7 4. Nc3 g6 5. Be3 d6 6. Qd2 h6 7. Be2 Bg7 8. Nf3
Nd7 9. Bd3 Ne7 10. O-O a6 11. Rfe1 g5 12. d5 e5 13. h3 Ng6 14. Ne2 Nf4 15.
Ng3 Bc8 16. Nf5 Bf6 17. Bxf4 gxf4 18. b4 Nf8 19. c4 Ng6 20. Rac1 Bxf5 21.
exf5 Nh4 22. Qxf4 Nxf3+ 23. Qxf3 Qd7 24. c5 Ke7 25. Qe3 Bg5 26. f4 Bf6 27.
cxb6 cxb6 28. Qxb6 Rhc8 29. Bxa6 Rxc1 30. Rxc1 Kf8 31. Qc6 Qa7+ 32. Kh1
Qxa6 33. Qd7 Kg7 34. Rc7 Qf1+ 35. Kh2 Qxf4+ 36. Kh1 Qf1+ 37. Kh2 Rf8 38.
Qxd6 Qf4+ 39. Kg1 Qxf5 40. b5 Qb1+ 41. Kh2 Qxb5 42. Rc6 Qf1 43. Qc5 Bg5 44.
Qc2 Re8 45. Qb2 Bf4+ 46. g3 Be3 47. Qg2 Qf5 48. Qe2 Qe4 49. Rc3 Bg1+ 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.19"]
[White "Martin, Seamus"]
[Black "Honner, Mervyn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1441"]
[WhiteICU "1195"]
[BlackICU "1187"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504340"]
[BlackFideId "2504847"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]
[WhiteFullName "Martin, S&eacute;amus"]

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1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.20"]
[White "Sheahan, Richard"]
[Black "Dempsey, Denis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1348"]
[BlackElo "1542"]
[WhiteICU "1217"]
[BlackICU "1197"]
[WhiteClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[BlackClub "Dublin"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2513048"]
[BlackFideId "2502437"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.21"]
[White "Jordan, Felix"]
[Black "Did not play"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1530"]
[WhiteICU "1473"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510324"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "5.22"]
[White "Devereux, Rohan"]
[Black "Did not play"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteICU "1202"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteICUId "17990"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Peoples, Jonathon"]
[Black "O'Gorman, Alice"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1856"]
[BlackElo "1868"]
[WhiteICU "1762"]
[BlackICU "1833"]
[WhiteClub "Ballinasloe"]
[BlackClub "Dun Laoghaire"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509520"]
[BlackFideId "2508214"]
[PlyCount "13"]
[ECO "C42"]
[Opening "Petrov"]
[Variation "Cozio (Lasker) attack"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Qe2 Qe7 6. d3 Nf6 7. Qxe7+
1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.2"]
[White "Bennett, Eric"]
[Black "Gallagher, Matthew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1829"]
[BlackElo "1650"]
[WhiteICU "1814"]
[BlackICU "1592"]
[WhiteClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2501384"]
[BlackFideId "2507161"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[ECO "A30"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "symmetrical variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. c4 c5 2. b3 e6 3. Bb2 Nf6 4. g3 d5 5. Bg2 Nbd7 6. Nf3 b6 7. O-O Bb7 8.
d3 Bd6 9. Na3 O-O 10. Nc2 d4 11. e3 dxe3 12. fxe3 Qc7 13. Qe1 Rad8 14. d4
Ne4 15. Rd1 Ndf6 16. Nd2 h5 17. Nxe4 Bxe4 18. Bxe4 Nxe4 19. dxc5 bxc5 20.
Qe2 Bxg3 21. hxg3 Nxg3 22. Qg2 f6 23. Rfe1 h4 24. Qh3 Qf7 25. Qg4 g5 26. e4
Kg7 27. Qxg5+ Kh7 28. Qxh4+ Qh5 29. Qxh5+ Nxh5 30. Kf2 Nf4 31. Rh1+ Kg7 32.
Kf3 e5 33. Ne3 Ne6 34. Nf5+ Kf7 35. Bc1 Nd4+ 36. Nxd4 cxd4 37. Rh7+ Ke6 38.
Rxa7 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Putar, Leon"]
[Black "Phelan, Leo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1692"]
[BlackElo "1620"]
[BlackICU "1631"]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "14546612"]
[BlackFideId "2511428"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[ECO "B50"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Be2 Nc6 5. Qc2 e6 6. d4 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8.
h3 Bd7 9. Be3 Rc8 10. Nbd2 cxd4 11. Nxd4 e5 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 13. Kh2 Qc7 14.
c4 b6 15. b3 Qb7 16. Bd3 d5 17. exd5 Bxd5 18. Bf5 Rc6 19. Rad1 Be6 20. Bd3
Qc7 21. Ne4 h6 22. Nxf6+ Bxf6 23. Be4 Rd6 24. c5 Rxd1 25. Rxd1 Be7 26. cxb6
Qxc2 27. Bxc2 axb6 28. Bxb6 Ra8 29. Rd2 f5 30. Bd3 e4 31. Bc4 Bxc4 32. bxc4
Rc8 33. Rc2 f4 34. a4 Bg5 35. a5 e3 36. fxe3 fxe3 37. a6 Kf7 38. a7 Ke6 39.
Bxe3 Bf6 40. c5 Bd8 41. Bf4 Ra8 42. Bb8 Kd7 43. c6+ Kc8 44. c7 Be7 45. Kg3
Bf6 46. Re2 Bd4 47. Re8+ Kb7 48. c8=Q+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.4"]
[White "Putar, Lara"]
[Black "Burke, Kevin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1443"]
[BlackElo "1768"]
[BlackICU "1680"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "14546604"]
[BlackFideId "2501520"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[ECO "A97"]
[Opening "Dutch"]
[Variation "Ilyin-Genevsky, Winter variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 d6 6. O-O O-O 7. Nc3 Qe8 8.
Re1 Ne4 9. d5 Nxc3 10. bxc3 e5 11. e3 Nd7 12. Ba3 g5 13. Rb1 g4 14. Nd2 e4
15. Nb3 Ne5 16. Nd2 Rf6 17. h4 Rh6 18. Kf1 Nd3 19. Re2 Bxh4 20. gxh4 Rxh4
21. Kg1 Qg6 22. Qf1 Ne5 23. Bh1 Nf3+ 24. Kg2 Rh2+ 25. Kg3 Rh3+ 26. Kg2 Qh5
0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.5"]
[White "Goss, Alex"]
[Black "Paronyan, Vahe"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1698"]
[BlackElo "1765"]
[WhiteICU "1595"]
[BlackICU "1641"]
[WhiteClub "Elm Mount"]
[BlackClub "Armenian C.C."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2509407"]
[BlackFideId "2512564"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[ECO "E01"]
[Opening "Catalan"]
[Variation "closed"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 h6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. O-O b6 7. Qc2 Bb7 8.
Nc3 c5 9. cxd5 Nxd5 10. e4 Nxc3 11. bxc3 Qc7 12. Bf4 Bd6 13. Bxd6 Qxd6 14.
Rfd1 Qc7 15. d5 O-O 16. dxe6 fxe6 17. Qa4 Nf6 18. e5 Nd5 19. Qg4 Nxc3 20.
Qxe6+ Qf7 21. Qxf7+ Rxf7 22. Rd3 Ne2+ 23. Kh1 Raf8 24. Re1 Rxf3 25. Bxf3
Rxf3 26. Rd7 Be4 27. Rxe2 Re3+ 28. Kg1 Rxe2 29. f4 Rxa2 30. e6 g5 31. Rd8+
Kg7 32. e7 Bg6 33. e8=Q Bxe8 34. Rxe8 gxf4 35. gxf4 c4 36. Re7+ Kf6 37. Rc7
b5 38. Rc6+ Kg7 39. Rc7+ Kf8 40. Rc6 h5 41. Rc5 a6 42. Rxh5 c3 43. Rf5+ Kg7
44. Rc5 c2 45. Rc7+ Kf6 46. Rc6+ 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.6"]
[White "Healy, John"]
[Black "Bergin, Cian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1919"]
[BlackElo "1481"]
[WhiteICU "1868"]
[BlackICU "1481"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2500965"]
[BlackFideId "2512572"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[ECO "B23"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "closed, 2...Nc6"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. f4 Nf6 6. Nf3 Be7 7. O-O O-O
8. d3 Qb6 9. Kh1 Rd8 10. Qe1 Qc7 11. h3 Nh5 12. e5 g6 13. g4 Ng7 14. Ne4
Ne8 15. Bd2 f5 16. exf6 Nxf6 17. Ne5 Nd7 18. Bc3 Rf8 19. Nxd7 Qxd7 20. Be5
Qd5 21. Kh2 b5 22. g5 Rf7 23. Nf6+ Bxf6 24. gxf6 a5 25. Qh4 Kf8 26. Rg1 Ke8
27. Rg3 Qd8 28. Re1 Raa7 29. Qg5 Qd5 30. h4 c4 31. h5 gxh5 32. Qxh5 Kf8 33.
Reg1 Rxf6 34. Rg8+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.7"]
[White "Kavanagh, James"]
[Black "Kelly, Christopher"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1605"]
[WhiteICU "1170"]
[BlackICU "1578"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "N.I.C.S."]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510006"]
[BlackFideId "2513218"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[ECO "D00"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn, Mason variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 c5 4. c3 Qb6 5. Qb3 Qxb3 6. axb3 cxd4 7. exd4 a6
8. Nd2 Bf5 9. Ngf3 h6 10. Be2 e6 11. O-O g5 12. Be5 Bg7 13. c4 Nbd7 14.
cxd5 Nxe5 15. dxe5 Nxd5 16. Nc4 Bf8 17. Nd4 Bg6 18. Rfd1 O-O-O 19. Rac1 Kb8
20. Bf3 Be7 21. Bxd5 Rxd5 22. Nb6 Rdd8 23. Nf3 Rxd1+ 24. Rxd1 Rd8 25. Rxd8+
Bxd8 26. Nd7+ Kc7 27. Nf6 Kc6 28. Nd2 Kc5 29. Ng4 h5 30. Ne3 b5 31. Kf1 Bc7
32. Ke2 Bxe5 33. Nd1 h4 34. Nc3 Bxh2 35. Nde4+ Kb4 36. Nxg5 Kxb3 37. Nd1
Be5 38. Nf3 Bh5 39. Ke3 Bxf3 40. Kxf3 Bxb2 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.8"]
[White "Venkatesan, Kavin"]
[Black "Phelan, John J."]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1481"]
[BlackElo "1681"]
[WhiteICU "1473"]
[BlackICU "1486"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512602"]
[BlackFideId "2503468"]
[PlyCount "108"]
[ECO "D09"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Albin counter-gambit, 5.g3"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. g3 Bf5 6. Nh4 Be6 7. Nf3 Bxc4 8.
Nbd2 Bd5 9. Nb3 Be4 10. Bg2 d3 11. O-O dxe2 12. Qxe2 Bd3 13. Qe3 Bxf1 14.
Bxf1 Qd5 15. Bd2 Nh6 16. Bg2 O-O-O 17. Nfd4 Qxe5 18. Bh3+ f5 19. Nxc6 Qxe3
20. Bxe3 bxc6 21. Bxh6 gxh6 22. Bxf5+ Kb7 23. Rc1 Kb6 24. Rc4 c5 25. Re4
Bd6 26. Re6 Rde8 27. Rxh6 Re1+ 28. Kg2 Re2 29. Rxh7 Rxh7 30. Bxh7 Rxb2 31.
Nc1 c4 32. g4 Bc5 33. g5 Rxf2+ 34. Kg3 Rf1 35. Ne2 Bd6+ 36. Kg2 Ra1 37. g6
Be5 38. h4 Rxa2 39. Kf3 c3 40. h5 Bg7 41. Bg8 Ra5 42. Kg4 Rc5 43. Nc1 c2
44. Be6 Re5 45. Bf5 Re1 46. Nd3 Rd1 47. Nc1 Rg1+ 48. Kh4 Rxc1 49. Bxc2 Rxc2
50. Kg5 Rc5+ 51. Kg4 a5 52. h6 Bxh6 53. g7 Bxg7 54. Kf4 a4 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.9"]
[White "Murray, Benjamin"]
[Black "Farrelly, Eoin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1641"]
[WhiteICU "1299"]
[BlackICU "1549"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512963"]
[BlackFideId "2510359"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[ECO "C11"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Steinitz variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Nce2 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Nf3 b6 8.
Ng3 Bb7 9. Bd3 Be7 10. h4 Qc7 11. Be3 h6 12. h5 O-O-O 13. Bd2 Kb8 14. Rb1
cxd4 15. cxd4 f6 16. exf6 Bxf6 17. Bc3 e5 18. dxe5 Ndxe5 19. Nxe5 Nxe5 20.
Bxe5 Bxe5 21. Qg4 Bxb2 22. O-O Be5 23. a4 a5 24. Rfc1 Qd6 25. Nf5 Qf6 26.
Qg6 Qxg6 27. hxg6 Rc8 28. Rxc8+ Rxc8 29. Rxb6 Rc1+ 30. Bf1 Ra1 31. Re6 Bf6
32. Rxf6 Rxa4 33. Nxg7 Rg4 34. f3 Rg5 35. Ne6 a4 36. Nxg5 a3 37. Rf4 Bc6
38. Rf6 Bb7 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.10"]
[White "Putar, Slavko"]
[Black "Cooney, Thomas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1610"]
[BlackICU "1108"]
[BlackClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "CRO"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "14557517"]
[BlackFideId "2512947"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[ECO "C07"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Tarrasch, Eliskases variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. Ngf3 cxd4 6. Bc4 Qd8 7. Nb3 Nf6
8. O-O Nc6 9. Nbxd4 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Qxd4 11. Nxd4 a6 12. Re1 Bd6 13. Nf5 Bf8
14. Bf4 g6 15. Nd6+ Bxd6 16. Bxd6 Bd7 17. Rad1 Rc8 18. Bb3 a5 19. Be5 Ke7
20. Bxf6+ Kxf6 21. Rxd7 b5 22. a4 bxa4 23. Bxa4 Rc4 24. Bb3 Rb4 25. Ra7 Rb5
26. g3 Rd8 27. Re3 Rd1+ 28. Kg2 Rb1 29. Rf3+ Kg5 30. Rfxf7 h5 31. h4+ Kg4
32. f3# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.11"]
[White "Avetisyan, Gagik"]
[Black "Scott, Shay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1221"]
[BlackElo "1585"]
[WhiteICU "1110"]
[BlackICU "1284"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "ARM"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "13307843"]
[BlackFideId "2504413"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d6 3. Nf3 g6 4. e3 Bg7 5. c4 O-O 6. Nc3 c5 7. d5 Qb6 8. b3
Nh5 9. Rc1 Nxf4 10. exf4 Nd7 11. g3 f5 12. Bg2 Nf6 13. O-O Bd7 14. Re1 Rae8
15. Ng5 h6 16. Ne6 Rf7 17. Qe2 Nh7 18. h4 Nf6 19. Bf3 h5 20. Qd2 Ng4 21.
Re2 Rf6 22. Rce1 Bh6 23. Bxg4 hxg4 24. Kg2 Rf7 25. Rh1 Bxe6 26. Rxe6 Rg7
27. h5 Kh7 28. hxg6+ Rxg6 29. Qe3 Reg8 30. Rxg6 Rxg6 31. Qxe7+ Rg7 32. Qf6
Rg6 33. Qf7+ Rg7 34. Qxf5+ Rg6 35. Ne4 Qd8 36. Qf7+ Rg7 37. Nf6+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.12"]
[White "Kirulis, Edgars"]
[Black "Murray, Sam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1512"]
[BlackElo "1483"]
[WhiteICU "1408"]
[BlackICU "1452"]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512025"]
[BlackFideId "2508958"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[ECO "B17"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "Steinitz variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Bc4
Bg4 8. Qd3 e6 9. Ne5 Bf5 10. Qb3 Qb6 11. Qxb6 axb6 12. Bd3 Bxd3 13. Nxd3
Bd6 14. O-O Ke7 15. Ne5 h6 16. Nc4 Bc7 17. c3 g5 18. Re1 Rhg8 19. Ne3 h5
20. h3 g4 21. h4 g3 22. fxg3 Bxg3 23. Nf5+ Kd7 24. Nxg3 Rxg3 25. Rf1 Rag8
26. Rxf6 Rxg2+ 27. Kf1 Rg1+ 28. Ke2 R8g2+ 29. Rf2 Rxf2+ 30. Kxf2 Rh1 31.
Kg3 Rg1+ 32. Kh2 Rg4 33. Bg5 Kd6 34. Rf1 f5 35. Rf4 Kd5 36. b3 b5 37. Rxg4
fxg4 38. Kg3 Ke4 39. Kf2 Kd3 40. Bf6 Kc2 41. Ke2 Kb2 42. Kd2 Kxa2 43. Kc2
b6 44. b4 Ka3 45. Be5 Ka2 46. Bg3 Ka3 $18 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.13"]
[White "Fitzpatrick, Kevin"]
[Black "O'Hanlon, Joe"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1407"]
[BlackElo "1568"]
[WhiteICU "1178"]
[BlackICU "1426"]
[WhiteClub "Galway"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2505886"]
[BlackFideId "2512157"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[ECO "A01"]
[Opening "Nimzovich-Larsen attack"]
[Variation "classical variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. b3 d5 2. e3 Bf5 3. d3 e6 4. Bb2 Nf6 5. g3 Nbd7 6. Bg2 c6 7. Nd2 Be7 8.
h3 O-O 9. Ne2 Ne8 10. Nf3 h6 11. a3 Bf6 12. d4 Nd6 13. Nd2 e5 14. c3 Re8
15. O-O Qb6 16. Re1 e4 17. g4 Bh7 18. Ng3 Qd8 19. Ndf1 Bh4 20. a4 Bxg3 21.
Nxg3 Qh4 22. Kf1 Nf8 23. Ke2 Ne6 24. Kd2 Qf6 25. Rf1 Rac8 26. Ba3 Qd8 27.
f4 Qc7 28. Qe1 c5 29. Bb2 cxd4 30. Rc1 Qb6 31. Kc2 d3+ 32. Kb1 Qxb3 33. Qd1
Qb6 34. Qe1 Nc4 35. Qf2 Nc5 36. Ka2 Qb3+ 37. Kb1 Nxa4 38. Ka1 Naxb2 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.14"]
[White "Scallan, Cillian"]
[Black "Whelan, Niall"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1190"]
[BlackElo "1582"]
[WhiteICU "1138"]
[BlackICU "1364"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "Rathmines"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511240"]
[BlackFideId "2500809"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 g6 7. Be2 Bg7 8.
O-O Nbd7 9. f4 b5 10. a3 O-O 11. f5 Bb7 12. Bd3 Ne5 13. fxg6 fxg6 14. Ne6
Qd7 15. Nxf8 Rxf8 16. h3 Rc8 17. Rb1 Qe6 18. Qd2 Nc4 19. Qe2 Nh5 20. Qf2 d5
21. Bxc4 dxc4 22. Bd4 Bh6 23. g4 Nf4 24. Qe3 g5 25. Nd5 Nxd5 26. exd5 Qxd5
27. Kf2 Rf8+ 28. Ke2 Qg2+ 29. Rf2 Rxf2+ 30. Qxf2 Qe4+ 31. Kd2 e5 32. Bc3
Qd5+ 33. Ke2 Qe4+ 34. Qe3 Qg2+ 35. Qf2 Qe4+ 36. Kd1 Qh1+ 37. Qe1 Qf3+ 38.
Kc1 Qf4+ 39. Bd2 Qf3 40. Bc3 Qf4+ 41. Kd1 Qf3+ 42. Kc1 Qxh3 1/2-1/2

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.15"]
[White "Martin, Desmond"]
[Black "Deneher, Jimmy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1730"]
[WhiteICU "1159"]
[BlackICU "1314"]
[WhiteClub "Naomh Barrog"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2506815"]
[BlackFideId "2509008"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[ECO "D30"]
[Opening "Queen's gambit declined"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c6 4. g3 Bd6 5. Bg2 f5 6. O-O Nf6 7. Bg5 Nbd7 8.
Nc3 O-O 9. c5 Bc7 10. b4 a6 11. a4 h6 12. Bd2 Ne4 13. b5 Qf6 14. Qc2 g5 15.
bxc6 bxc6 16. e3 g4 17. Nh4 e5 18. Ne2 Nxd2 19. Qxd2 e4 20. Nf4 Bxf4 21.
exf4 a5 22. Rfd1 Nb8 23. Bf1 Kg7 24. Rab1 Qd8 25. Rb6 Qc7 26. Rdb1 Nd7 27.
R6b3 Kf6 28. Ng2 Rb8 29. Ne3 Qa7 30. Rxb8 Nxb8 31. Rb6 Rf7 32. Nxd5+ Kg7
33. Ne3 Rb7 34. Rxb7+ Qxb7 35. Qxa5 Qd7 36. Qc3 Kg6 37. Nc4 Qa7 38. Ne5+
Kh5 39. Qc4 Qe7 40. Qg8 Qe6 41. Qd8 Ba6 42. Qh4# 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.16"]
[White "Martin, Seamus"]
[Black "Wang, Zhengjn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteICU "1195"]
[BlackICU "1077"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504340"]
[BlackFideId "2511339"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[ECO "B02"]
[Opening "Alekhine's defence"]
[Variation "Maroczy variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]
[WhiteFullName "Martin, S&eacute;amus"]

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1. e4 Nf6 2. d3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4. d4 e6 5. Nf3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Be3 Qb6 8.
Qd2 h6 9. Be2 a6 10. O-O Qc7 11. a3 Na5 12. Bd1 b5 13. b4 Nc4 14. Qc1 Nxe3
15. Qxe3 cxd4 16. cxd4 Be7 17. Be2 Nb6 18. Nbd2 O-O 19. Nb3 Nc4 20. Bxc4
dxc4 21. Nc5 Bxc5 22. dxc5 Bb7 23. Rfe1 Rfd8 24. Nd4 Rd5 25. Rad1 Rad8 26.
f4 Qd7 27. c6 Bxc6 28. Nxc6 Qxc6 29. Rxd5 Qxd5 30. Kf2 Qd2+ 31. Re2 Qxe3+
32. Rxe3 Rd2+ 33. Kf3 Kf8 34. h3 Ke7 35. g4 Kd7 36. h4 Kc6 37. Ke4 Rd3 38.
Rxd3 cxd3 39. Kxd3 Kd5 40. g5 hxg5 41. hxg5 g6 42. Ke3 Kc4 43. f5 exf5 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.17"]
[White "O'Sullivan, Tom"]
[Black "Hackett, William"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1659"]
[BlackElo "1473"]
[WhiteICU "1360"]
[BlackICU "1180"]
[WhiteClub "Malahide"]
[BlackClub "Malahide"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2504375"]
[BlackFideId "2510502"]
[PlyCount "34"]
[ECO "D31"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "semi-Slav"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 e6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bf4 Nf6 6. h3 Bf5 7. a3 Bd6 8.
Bxd6 Qxd6 9. e3 Nbd7 10. Bd3 Bg6 11. Nge2 O-O 12. Nf4 Nb6 13. Nxg6 fxg6 14.
O-O Rae8 15. Qd2 g5 16. f3 Rf7 17. Rf2 Rfe7 0-1

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.18"]
[White "Renji, Rafael Ninan"]
[Black "Sheahan, Richard"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1467"]
[BlackElo "1348"]
[WhiteICU "1122"]
[BlackICU "1217"]
[WhiteClub "Armenian C.C."]
[BlackClub "Rathmines Jrs"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2512793"]
[BlackFideId "2513048"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 c5 6. O-O cxd4 7. Nxd4 Bg6 8.
Nc3 Nd7 9. f4 Ne7 10. Be3 Nf5 11. Nxf5 Bxf5 12. Bd3 Bg6 13. Qd2 Nxe5 14.
fxe5 d4 15. Bxg6 hxg6 16. Qxd4 Qe7 17. Qa4+ Kd8 18. Rad1+ Kc8 19. Bb6 axb6
20. Qxa8+ 1-0

[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.19"]
[White "Dimitrov, Nikolai"]
[Black "McGlade, Emmet"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1333"]
[WhiteICU "1104"]
[BlackICU "1226"]
[WhiteClub "Skerries"]
[BlackClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2511649"]
[BlackFideId "2513242"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.20"]
[White "Dempsey, Denis"]
[Black "Honner, Mervyn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1542"]
[BlackElo "1441"]
[WhiteICU "1197"]
[BlackICU "1187"]
[WhiteClub "Dublin"]
[BlackClub "Bray/Greystones"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[BlackNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2502437"]
[BlackFideId "2504847"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.21"]
[White "Jordan, Felix"]
[Black "Did not play"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1530"]
[WhiteICU "1473"]
[WhiteClub "St. Benildus"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteFideId "2510324"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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[Event "St. Andrew's Majors 2018"]
[Site "Dublin IRL"]
[Date "2018.09.23"]
[Round "6.22"]
[White "Devereux, Rohan"]
[Black "Did not play"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteICU "1202"]
[WhiteClub "Gonzaga"]
[WhiteNationality "IRL"]
[WhiteICUId "17990"]
[EventDate "2018.09.21"]

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