On this web site we’re interested in chronicling all tournaments, no matter how old. But it’s always nice to have an entirely new event to report, and the organisers of the Enniscorthy Congress are to be congratulated on their inaugural event, which concluded today.
Live boards carried the top 4 boards in the Masters section (out of 6 overall), but unfortunately I was able to grab only three rounds’ worth. However these have now been compiled into a tournament report, and there’s also a new Enniscorthy Congresses page.
In this year’s top event David Fitzsimons and Oleg Korneev finished equal first on an undefeated 5/6, drawing with each other and also both with Alex Baburin. (It’s not clear on the information available whether a tie-break was used to declare a sole winner.)
Well done also to David Fitzsimons for reaching 2400 in the January 2016 FIDE list, thereby satisfying one of the requirements for an IM title. I don’t recall seeing mention of him having achieved this before.