Bunratty Masters 2020

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

Sources and notes

Sources
Tournament web site
ICU web site
Chess24.com
  • Bunratty Masters (18 games, with analysis by Stockfish 8; all pairings & results).
ChessBase.com
TWIC
Live boards The top 3 boards in each round were transmitted live
Newspapers
  • “Female chess player set to create history in Bunratty”, Nick Rabbitts, Limerick Leader, February 22, 2020 p. 4 (re Elisabeth Pähtz)
  • Sunday Independent, March 1, 2020 p. 25 (Alexander Baburin) (report, annotation of Short - Hort, round 3)
  • Irish Examiner, March 7, 2020 p. 55 (Jim Olney) (report, score of Short - Hort, puzzle based on end of Manojlovic - Li, round 4)
Other web coverage


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
Incomplete games Six games ended with a decisive result, but for no reason discernible from the available game score, so are probably incomplete. The games are:
Incorrect games At least two games seem to have incorrect scores:
Double minor piece endings Double minor piece endings, i.e., BB v BB, and NN v NN, possibly with pawns, are relatively rare, but this tournament had three examples: (There were also four examples of double rook endings, but this is in line with the expected frequency: about 3.7% of the games in the ICU games archive reached this ending, versus 0.3% for double minor piece endings.)
Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the February 2020 list.
  • ICU ratings are from the February 2020 list.
Versions
  • v1.0 (13 Mar 2020): first published version.
Contributors Seán Coffey