A full report on this year’s Bunratty Masters is now available here. Nigel Short finished clear first, apparently and surprisingly for the first time ever.
All 135 games are available. In perhaps the most interesting of all, the French player Léopold Le Ruyet capped off a great tournament with a crushing last round win as Black against Sam Collins.
In the diagrammed position, White has just played his 14th move and he’s already lost. There followed 14. … Nxd4 15. cxd4 Bxh3! (0-1, 23).