cork2025 Cork Masters 2025 Dates October 3-5, 2025 City Cork Venue Clayton Hotel Cork City, 10 Lapp’s Quay, Cork T12 RD6E Organiser Mark Watkins Chief Arbiter Mark Watkins Deputy Arbiters Simon Lawrence, Andrew Kelly Players participating 29 Games played 69 Competition format 5-round Swiss Eligibility Rating 1800+ FIDE or, if no FIDE rating, ICU Tie-break For first place: blitz (3+2), best of three, between top two players under Median Buchholz; prize money split evenly. Time control 90 minutes for all moves with a 30 second increment from move 1 Schedule Round 1 (Friday): 7.30pm; rounds 2 and 3 (Saturday): 10.00am and 3.00pm; rounds 4 and 5 (Sunday): 9.00am and 2.00pm Default time 30 minutes FIDE rated? Yes (ID 435511) Prizes Unknown Entry fee €60 (€50 early) Concurrent events Photos Brendan O'Gorman posted 51 photos on SmugMug. Above: playing hall (click for full size). Games available 30, of which at least 2 incomplete Tournament review
None available.
 61 games_cork2025/g61.htm Arun, Nitish – Venkatesan, Kavin      ½-½ 63 games_cork2025/g63.htm Geaney-O'Brien, David – Carey, Paul      ½-½ 20 games_cork2025/g20.htm Bartczak, Korneliusz – Kelbas, Dariy      ½-½ Heading Sources FIDE records Tournament 435511 Flyer Flyer (1-page pdf) ICU web site Cork C.C. web site Tournament rules (4-page pdf) Livechesscloud Cork Congress 2025 Masters (live boards) Chess-Results.com Heading Notes Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the October 2025 list.
  • ICU ratings are from the October 2025 list.
 Missing detail The competition rules specified a blitz playoff for first. The results of this playff, if it took place, is unknown. Versions
  • v1.0 (8 Oct 2025): first published version
 Author Seán Coffey 20 Bartczak – Kelbas 2 ½-½ 67 games_cork2025/g20.htm This report 60 Fitzsimons – Gubanov 5 1-0 53 games_cork2025/g60.htm This report