Bunratty Masters 2019 sources

Bunratty Masters 2019

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Sources and notes

Sources
Tournament web site	Bunratty International Chess Festival (accessed February 24, 2019) (playing details, prizes, results, and roll of honour) —, March 28, 2019 (all 151 games)
ICU web site	Bunratty Chess Festival 2019, John McMorrow, Sepetmber 29, 2018 (initial announcement), plus 11 additional reminders Ratings report
Chess24.com	Bunratty Masters (30 games, with analysis by Stockfish 8).
ChessBase.com	Simon Says – Tales from Bunratty, Simon Williams, February 25, 2019 (link to show) McShane Bags Bunratty Masters 2019, Gerry Graham, February 26, 2019 (reprint of ICU report)
ChessBomb.com	Bunratty Masters 2019 (36 games)
TWIC	26th Bunratty Chess Festival 2019, Mark Crowther, Fenruary 22, 2019 onwards (partial tables, 36 games)
Live boards	The top 6 boards in each round were transmitted live
Newspapers	Bunratty International Chess Festival this weekend, Pat Flynn, Clare Champion, February 23, 2019 (preview, photo)
Other web commentary	Bunratty 2019, boards.ie, December 13, 2018 onwards

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
Ratings	FIDE ratings are from the February 2019 list. ICU ratings are from the February 2019 list.
Blitz playoff	The sudden death blitz playoff had to go to a third game
Extra prize	The ICU announced shortly before the event that the top non-titled IRL player in the Masters would get free entry to the training course with Jacob Aagaard on March 8-10. The winner of this extra prize was John McMorrow.
Versions	v1.0 (24 Feb 2019): first published version. v1.1 (26 Feb 2019): deleted Sources → Chess.com (which pointed to items about the 2018 event); replaced items in Sources → ChessBase.com (which previously pointed to items about the 2018 event) with links to reports from this year's event; corrected title of link in Sources → TWIC (2018 → 2019); added FM title for Henry Li, based on FIDE Handbook's statement that "A title is officially valid from the date all the requirements are met" (0.42, July 1, 2017 version); added YouTube video by "thisassassinrapper" in Information → Video and changed title to Videos; added Annotations index, referring to ChessBase annotations, and added links from playable games; added ratings report in Source → ICU web site; added link to ICU ratings reports for Challengers, Major, and Minor in Information → Concurrent events; added missing parenthesis in Sources → Tournament web site v1.2 (29 Mar 2019): added remaining 115 games, from file compiled by tournament organizers; corrected O'Gorman - Turner, round 3, to add 60 ply, based on file compiled by tournament organizers (live boards ended after 28W); added link to photos from Ioana Miller's Facebook page in Information → Photos; added links to photos from Fiona Steil-Antoni's Facebook page in Information → Photos; added extra games to Information → Interesting games; corrected number of games played in Information → Games played (152 → 151); added accent to Marijus Vičas name v1.3 (31 Jan 2023): changed "Alan Walton" to "Alan J. Walton" throughout; changed http to https throughout; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; added _tables file in directory; added xml directory and file
Contributors	Seán Coffey