This year’s Irish championship is heating up, with a great win by David Fitzsimons over Stephen Brady in round 4 blowing the race wide open; he is now joint leader with John Redmond, last year’s runner-up, and they meet in round 5.
Many thanks to this year’s organiser, Rory Delaney, for making pgn of all games available soon after every round on the games page of the tournament web site, continuing the practice set by Seán Hewitt for last year’s event. This makes an enormous difference to the atmosphere surrounding the event, so let’s hope it becomes a standard feature of all major Irish tournaments.
We’ll gather all available material into a full report here after the event, but while it’s in progress the reader is referred to the tournament web site and the excellent discussions on the LCU Blog.