Bunratty Masters 2018 sources

Bunratty Masters 2018

[ Information | Pairings & results | Crosstable | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | Openings | Annotations ]

Sources and notes

Sources
Tournament web site	Bunratty International Chess Festival (accessed March 3, 2018) (playing details, prizes, results, database containing 2,466 games from all 25 years, including all 155 games from the 2018 event), and roll of honour
Chess.com	Bunratty's 25th Anniversary (I Played!), Peter Doggers, Chess.com, February 27, 2018. The best weekend tournament in the World!?, Simon Williams, March 1, 2018 (report, 9 photos).
Chess24.com	Bunratty Masters (all 155 games, with analysis by Stockfish 8).
ChessBase.com	Bunratty's 25th anniversary breaks records, Macauley Peterson, February 27, 2018 (including all 155 games) I know what I did last weekend, Alina l'Ami, March 5, 2018 (report, 6 annotated games, 23 photos)
TWIC	25th Bunratty Chess Festival 2018, Mark Crowther, Fenruary 23, 2018 onwards (partial tables, all 155 games).
Live boards	The top 4 boards in each round were transmitted live
ICU web site	Ratings report
Newspapers	Gawain Jones shows he is no mug at Bunratty but Tiviakov has last laugh, Leonard Barden, The Guardian, March 2, 2018.) Bunratty, Raymond Keene, The Spectator, March 3, 2018
Video log	Vlog #26: Bunratty Chess Festival (9m. 33s.), Fiona Steil-Antoni, February 28, 2018
Other web coverage	Bunratty International Chess Festival 2018, Chess NI web pages (summary results of players travelling from Northern Ireland). Bunratty Congress 2018, Rory Quinn, Ennis C.C. blog, February 20, 2018 (preview). Galway players do well in Bunratty, Pete Morriss, Galway C.C. web pages, February 27, 2018 (report). Bunratty 2018, Kevin Burke, St. Benildus C.C. web site, February 28, 2018 (report). Short v Manojlovic, Kevin Burke, St. Benildus C.C. web site, March 3, 2018 (annotated game).

Notes
Key	In "Pairings & results", "x-ch" denotes former Bunratty champions
Ex-champions	Ex-champions on the Pairings & results page are from the roll of honour on the tournament web site
Errata	In the database at the tournament web site and on ChessBase.com (though not on Chess24.com or TWIC), Tiviakov - L'Ami (round 2) is shown as ending 0-1 rather than 1-0
Discrepancies	Live boards showed O'Gorman - Jones (round 1) as having the extra move 47. Kd4, and this was incorporated into the Bunratty collection, TWIC, and ChessBase. The live boards showed no clock time attached, and it seems more likely that Kd4 signaled that White resigned.
Anniversary booklet	The booklet "Bunratty Chess Festival: Celebrating 25 years of great Chess 1994-2018", by Tony Foley (164pp.), was distributed to all participants.
Ratings	FIDE ratings are from the February 2018 list. ICU ratings are from the February 2018 list.
Versions	v1.0 (13 Mar 2018): first published version. v1.1 (5 Apr 2018): corrected Williams - Jones, round 5; previous version omitted the last 5 ply. v1.2 (10 Feb 2019): added extra indexing information in playable game files
Contributors	Seán Coffey