Castlebar 1969

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Sources and notes

Sources
Tournament book Castlebar 1969
Wolfgang Heidenfeld
Availability: in National Library of Ireland
Unannotated game scores

Cover:

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Magazine reports
  • BCM 1969 pp. 305-306 (W. Heidenfeld)
  • Chess Express 1969 p. 380 (leading scores, unannotated game scores of Kernan-Moe and Wade-Hübner)
  • Schach-Echo 1969 27 - 19/3 (inside back cover)
Newspapers
  • Connacht Tribune:
  • September 5, 1969 p. 9, 'Live chess games"
  • (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.)
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  • Connaught Telegraph:
  • August 21, 1969 p. 1, "Check, mate!" and "A unique festival"
  • August 28, 1969 p. 5, "Live chess on Castlebar's Mall"
  • September 4, 1969 p. 1, "German wins at Castlebar"
  • (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.)
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  • Cork Examiner:
  • August 26, 1969 p. 12, "Internationals at Castlebar"
  • (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.)
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  • Irish Independent:
  • August 19, 1969, p. 8, "Festival of chess for Castlebar"
  • August 25, 1969, p. 11
  • August 26, 1969, p. 10, "Schoolboy beats chess master"
  • August 27, 1969, p. 12
  • August 28, 1969, p. 15, "Play continues at Castlebar"
  • Augsut 29, 1969 p. 52, "Kernan continues to impress"
  • September 2, 1969, p. 11
  • (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.)
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  • Irish Press:
  • August 21, 1969 p. 9, "Another first for Castlebar" and "Star studded"
  • August 26, 1969 p. 13
  • August 27, 1969 p. 21
  • August 29, 1969 p. 14
  • (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.)
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  • Irish Times:
  • June 14, 1969, p. 12, "Castlebar Festival"
  • August 19, 1969, p. 8, "International Chess week for Castlebar"
  • August 22, 1969, p. 10, "The Castlebar Festival"
  • August 25, 1969, p. 12, "Festival of chess opens in Castlebar"
  • August 27, 1969, p. 10, "German has clear lead in chess test"
  • August 27, 1969, p. 10, "A Busy August"
  • August 29, 1969, p. 11, "German leads in chess festival"
  • September 1, 1969, p. 8, "German wins in chess festival"
  • September 2, 1969, p. 8, "Castlebar chess festival results"
  • September 3, 1969, "One versus eighteen"
  • September 23, 1969, p. 18, "Castlebar Success"
  • January 8, 1970, p. 10, "Looking Back on 1969"
  • (Irish Times Archive, www.irishtimes.com/archive. Subscription required.)
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  • Sunday Independent:
  • August 24, 1969 p. 2, "Castlebar Fashion Show"
  • August 31, 1969 p. 5, "'Live' chess in Castlebar today"
  • (Irish Times Archive, www.irishtimes.com/archive. Subscription required.)
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  • Western People:
  • August 23, 1969 p. 10, "Castlebar International Chess Festival"
  • August 30, 1969 p. 1, "Chess Festival"
  • (Irish Newspaper Archive, www.irishnewsarchive.com. Subscription required.)
Web
Biographical sketches These are a mixture of sourced and unsourced, verified and unverified material. Sources include:


Notes
Score errors? In the game Schnegelsberg-Burke (round 4), the tournament book gives 30. Qg3. With this White misses mate in one on moves 32 and 33, and Black allows these on moves 31 and 32. No reports mention missed mates in one, so we speculate that 30 Qe3 is most likely to have been played.
Titles "Owing to an oversight by the German Chess Federation (who forgot to apply), Hübner is not yet an IM, though he has reached the requisite standard in tournament play", Chess Digest vol. 2, no. 4, December 1969, p. 98, in report on Büsum 1969 (May 1-16). (Gaige lists Hübner as becoming an IM in 1969.)
Ratings Official FIDE ratings were not introduced until July 1971, based on performances up to June 30, 1971. Castlebar players on that first list were:
  • Hübner 2590
  • Brinck-Claussen 2425
  • Moe 2380
  • Wade 2365
  • Patterson 2340
  • Heidenfeld 2250

In the February 1969 Irish rating list, Heidenfeld was ranked first at 2223 and McCurdy was ranked 11th at 2049. In the August 1969 list, Heidenfeld was ranked second at 2165 and no other Castlebar players are in the top ten, extending down to 2038. Patterson had not played enough games against rated players to be assigned a rating. These were still the early days of the Irish rating list, so it was not necessarily easy to meet the requirement of at least eight games against rated players, since the pool of rated Irish players was so small (7 players in the initial list in September 1968, 24 in the February 1969 list) and most games outside Ireland were not counted. It is not known whether the other Irish Castlebar players (Kernan, Brennan, Burke, Ryan) were not listed because of qualification issues or because their rating was below 1900.

In the September 1971 Leinster Chess Union list, Heidenfeld is at 2263, Kernan at 2143, and Burke at 2029. In the August 1972 Leinster list, Brennan is at 2136, just behind Kernan at 2138.
Discrepancies
  • The tournament book gives "Ericsen", Heidenfeld's BCM report gives "Ericson", and the Irish Times articles give "Erikson" and "Eriksen", for Eriksen.
  • The tournament book, BCM article and Irish Times articles give "Schnegelsborg" instead of Schnegelsberg, and the games collections at ICU and Britbase follow. But the FIDE web site gives Schnegelsberg and the name Schnegelsborg at best seems much less common, if it exists at all.
  • The game collections at ICU and Britbase and FIDE records give "Grabov" instead of Grabow. BCM and Gaige give Grabow.
  • The BCM article and Irish Times articles refer to Kernan as a 13-year-old, but per Gaige he had turned 14 the previous month.
Itineraries
  • John Moles was unavailable due to the clash with the World Junior Championship in Stockholm, August 10-29.
  • Wade and Blackstock played in the British championship in Rhyl, which finished on August 23. Wade finished runner-up, ½ point behind Penrose.
  • McCurdy played in the Student Olympiad in Dresden, August 1-17.
Versions
  • v1.0 (31 Aug 2011): first posted version.
  • v1.1 (31 May 2012): Elaine Pritchards died on her 86th birthday, January 7, 2012; updated biographical sketch and added link to BCM obituary. Added index lines to all .htm files, corrected some minor issues with the pgn file.
  • v1.2 (21 Feb 2014): removed popup games; added pgn within each .htm file; modified layout
  • v1.3 (5 Nov 2016): updated biographical entry for Gerald McCurdy and added photo; added photo for Mogens Moe; added venue; added many newspaper references; added minor playable notes within one game; changed score of Schegelsberg - Burke (round 4) to match more probable continuation rather than score as given in tournament book; updated many links in Sources and Notes; corrected ECO index; modified layout
  • v1.4 (23 Apr 2017): corrected rendering of accented names
  • v1.5 (30 Jan 2019): corrected date of Schnegelsberg - Aitken (round 6) in downloadable pgn file (1997.08.30 → 1969.08.30); added Nationality for Seán Ryan in downloadable pgn and embedded pgn in 3 games; corrected typo in Notes → Versions → v1.3; modified biographical sketch of Neils Schnegelsberg (updated FIDE rating); modified layout of playable games and added extra indexing information in playable game files
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