Cork, 1993-
The event was known as the Cork City Congress from its beginning until at least 2002, and gradually became known as the Cork Congress. (A separate Cork Congress series started in 1977 and ran continuously from 1984 to 1991.) It has sometimes been run as a single open event, and sometimes divided into two or three sections. All events have been run over 6 rounds.
- 1993-1999
- 1993 Joe Ryan; March 19-21; 70 players (1 game available)
- 1994 Joe Ryan, Philip Short; March 18-20; 80 players (2 games available)
- 1995 Alexander Baburin; March 17-19 (5 games available)
- 1996 Colm Daly; March 16-18 (2 games available)
- 1997 Alexander Baburin; March 15-17 (no games available)
- 1998 Mel Ó Cinnéide; March 13-15 (1 game available)
- 1999 Colm Daly; March 19-21 (5 games available)
- 2000-2009
- 2000 Eamon Keogh; March 24-26; 64 players (no games available); scores
- 2001 Mel Ó Cinnéide; March 23-25; 25 players, 72 games (1 available); results
- 2002 Colm Daly; March 22-24; 38 players, 112 games (none available); results
- 2003 Mark Hebden; March 21-23; 49 players, 107 games (42 available); results
- 2004 Mark Heidenfeld; March 26-28; 37 players, 104 games (24 available); results
- 2005 Bartosz Socko; April 1-3; 91 players, 259 games (67 available); results
- 2006 Gawain Jones; March 24-26; 52 players, 154 games (42 available); results
- 2007 Alexander Baburin (1st via ?), Alex Lopez; March 30-April 1; 61 players, 175 games (5 available); results
- 2008 Stuart Conquest (1st via tie-break), Bogdan Lalić; March 28-30; 62 players, 176 games (32 available); results
- 2009 Gavin Wall; March 27-29; 62 players, 176 games (41 games available); scores
- 2010-2019
- 2010 Dejan Bojkov (1st via playoff), Bogdan Lalić, Alex Lopez; March 26-28; 53 players (22 games available); scores
- 2011 Simon Williams (1st via playoff), Alex Lopez; April 1-3; 46 players, 133 games (5 available); results
- 2012 Dejan Bojkov; March 23-25; 33 players, 85 games (6 available); results
- 2013 Simon Williams; April 19-21; 34 players, 97 games (24 available); results
- 2014 Gawain Jones; March 28-30; 36 players, 102 games (17 available); results
- 2015 Alexander Baburin; March 27-29; 35 players, 95 games (1 available); results
- 2016 Stephen Jessel; March 26-28; 33 players, 95 games (6 available); results
- 2017 Alex Lopez (1st via ?), David Murray; March 31-April 2; 39 players, 109 games (12 available); results
- 2018 Jaroslav Shanel; October 5-7; 26 players, 72 games (none available); results
- 2019 Tarun Kanyamarala (1st via playoff), Aidan Rawlinson; October 4-6; 20 players, 52 games (none available); results
- References:
- Cork, Irish Chess History web site (David McAlister) (all available player scores and places, dates, venues)
- Tournament summaries, IRLchess
- Previous winners, Cork C.C. web site.
- Cork Examiner, March 22, 1993 p. 7 (re 1993)
- Evening Echo, March 30, 1993 p. 22 (Jim Olney) (re 1993)
- Evening Echo, March 29, 1994 p. 13 (Jim Olney) (re 1994)
- Cork Examiner, April 4, 1995 p. 15 (Jim Olney) (re 1995)
- Cork Examiner, March 28, 1996 p. 25 (Jim Olney) (re 1996)
- Cork Examiner, April 7, 1998 p. 24 (Jim Olney) (re 1998)
- Cork Examiner, April 1, 1999 p. 42 (Jim Olney) (re 1999)
- Cork Congress (Michael Bradley), Irish Chess Journal, September 2007, pp. 13-19 (re 2007)
- Results, Cork C.C. web pages, July 28, 2008 (via the Wayback Machine) (re 2008, including winner)
- Simon Williams, Cork Congress 2011-Part 1 and Cork Congress 2011-Part 2, Ginger GM blog, April 8, 2011 (via the Wayback Machine)
- David McAlister, via email, June 1, 2020 (clarifying the years of the previous Cork Congress series, and providing the game Murphy – Spiel from 1994)
Last updated June 1, 2020.