Irish Championship 1947

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Sources and notes

Sources
ICU web site
  • Tournament page (scores and places)
  • ICU games archive, as of February 2016 (Duignan - Nash, round 9)
Newspapers
  • Belfast News-Letter (W. J. Allen)
  • "The Irish Championship", July 16, 1947 p. 2 (preview)
  • "Irish championship", July 23, 1947 p. 2 (rounds 1 and 2)
  • "Irish championship", July 30, 1947 p. 6 (final report, incorrectly giving O'Sullivan second with 9½ and Nash third with 9)
  • "Irish championship", August 6, 1947 p. 2 (final adjournment; Nash second, O'Sullivan third)
  • "Scotch gambit", August 13, 1947 p. 2 (Duignan - Nash, round 9, annotated)
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  • Cork Examiner
  • "Soth Munster branch formed in Cork", November 22, 1946 p. 6 (announcement that championship would take place in Cork)
  • "Irish Championship at Cork", July 15, 1947 p. 7 (preview, venue, schedule, competitors with brief profiles, controller)
  • "Irish Championship at Cork", July 21, 1947 p. 6 (fixtures for rounds 1 and 2)
  • "P. A. Duignan beats J. J. O'Hanlon / Irish Championship begins in Cork", July 22, 1947 p. 7 (rounds 1 and 2; description of completed games)
  • "Leinster player leads in Cork tournament", July 23, 1947 p. 7 (rounds 3 and 4; description of completed games)
  • "Brilliant play in Irish Championship", July 24, 1947 p. 7 (rounds 5 and 6; description of games)
  • "Leinster player maintains lead", July 25, 1947 p. 7 (round 7 plus adjournments; description of round 7 games)
  • "Race for Irish title / First setback for leader", July 26, 1947 p. 10 (rounds 8 and 9; description of games)
  • "P. A. Duignan almost certain of Irish title", July 28, 1947 p. 6 (rounds 10 and 11; description of games)
  • "Views of the news", July 29, 1947 p. 3 (photo of all competitors (of average newspaper quality))
  • "Irish chess title for P. A. Duignan", July 29, 1947 p. 6 (rounds 12 and 13; final report; incorrectly gives O'Sullivan second and Nash third)
  • "Irish Championship", July 31, 197 p. 6 (correction to description of results of Nash's final game)
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  • Evening Echo
  • "Irish Championship at Cork", July 19, 1947 p. 2 (preview; draw for rounds 1 and 2)
  • "Irish Championship opens in Cork", July 21, 1947 p. 2 (round 1; description of some games)
  • "Irish Championship / Leinster players leading", July 22, 1947 p. 3 (round 3; description of games)
  • "Duignan still leading in Irish Championship", July 23, 1947 p. 2 (round 5; description of games)
  • "Irish Championship", July 24, 1947 p. 2 (round 7; description of games)
  • "P A Duignan almost certain of Irish title", July 28, 1947 p. 2 (round 12; description of games)
  • "Irish Championship concludes / The final placings", July 29, 1947 p. 2 (final report; results and description of adjourned games
  • "Irish Championship", July 30, 1947 p. 2 (supplement to description of Nash final game)
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  • Evening Herald
  • "Duignan leads in chess championship", July 22, 1947 p. 5 (round 3)
  • "Duignan may lose point in chess championship", July 23, 1947 p. 7 (round 5; description of Bourke - Duignan game)
  • "Burke still in running for chess title", July 24, 1947 p. 7 (round 7; description of Bourke - O'Sullivan and Hickey - Duignan)
  • "Duignan enhances his chess title prospects", July 25, 1947 p. 8 (round 8; description of Duignan - O'Leary)
  • "Chess surprises at Cork", July 26, 1947 p. 7 (round 8)
  • "Duignan almost certain of chess title", July 28, 1947 p. 8 (round 12)
  • "W. Nash runner-up to chess champion", July 29, 1947 p. 2 (final report; results of adjourned games)
  • "Adjourned chess games decided", July 30, 1947 p. 8 (results of final adjourned games; final scores of all players)
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  • Ireland's Saturday Night
  • "Irish championship", July 19, 1947 p. 3 (preview; controller)
  • "The Irish championship", August 2, 1947 p. 3 (final report)
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  • Irish Independent
  • "Chess title bid begins today", July 21, 1947 p. 7 (preview)
  • "P. A. Duignan makes a good start", July 22, 1947 p. 8 (rounds 1 and 2)
  • "Two good wins by P. A. Duignan", July 23, 1947 p. 7 (rounds 3 and 4)
  • "P. A. Duignan still the leader", July 24, 1947 p. 7 (rounds 5 and 6)
  • "Duignan leader at half-way", July 25, 1947 p. 7 (round 7 plus adjournments)
  • "Nash win opens up chess title-bid", July 26, 1947 p. 10 (rounds 8 and 9)
  • "P. A. Duignan is well on road to title", July 28, 1947 p. 7 (rounds 10 and 11)
  • "P. A. Duignan is new chess champion", July 29, 1947 p. 7 (rounds 12 and 13; final report)
  • "W. Nash runner-up in chess championship", July 30, 1947 p. 8 (Nash final adjourned game)
  • "Irish Chess Champion's rapid rise to the top", August 2, 1947 p. 9 (profile of Duignan; all final scores)
  • December 31, 1947 p. 5 (summary results of the year)
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  • Irish Press
  • "Chess championships", July 22, 1947 p. 9 (rounds 1 and 2)
  • "Leinster players chess victories", July 23, 1947 p. 8 (rounds 3 and 4)
  • "Duignan leads", July 24, 1947 p. 9 (rounds 5 and 6)
  • "Leinster chess men leading", July 25, 1947 p. 8 (round 7 plus adjournments)
  • "Duignan looks set to take title", July 28, 1947 p. 10 (rounds 10 and 11)
  • "Duignan takes chess title", July 29, 1947 p. 9 (final report and scores, incorrectly giving O'Sullivan as finishing second)
  • "Adjourned chess games decided", July 30, 1947 p. 8 (final results and scores)
  • "Irish chess title found new owner", December 31, 1947 p. 9 (summary results for year, incorrectly giving O'Sullivan as finishing second)
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  • Irish Times
  • "Entries for Irish chess title", July 17, 1947 p. 4 (entries, schedule)
  • "Irish chess title struggle begins", July 22, 1947 p. 3 (round 1)
  • "Duignan's bid for Irish chess title", July 24, 1947 p. 4 (rounds 5 and 6)
  • "Chess leader held to a draw", July 25, 1947 p. 2 (round 7, plus adjournments)
  • "Duignan still leads in chess test", July 26, 1947 (rounds 8 and 9)
  • "Duignan heading for chess title", July 28, 1947 p. 4 (rounds 10 and 11)
  • "Duignan wins Irish chess title", July 29, 1947 p. 13 (rounds 12 and 13)
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  • The Leader (Review of Current Affairs, Politics, Literature, Art and Industry)
  • vol. XCIII, no. 28, August 9, 1947 pp. 9-10 (P. A. Duignan winner)
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  • Sunday Independent
  • "Duignan in line for chess title", July 27, 1947 p. 8 (rounds 10 and 11; description of games)


Notes
Key In "Pairings & results",
  • "qual" denotes method of qualification
  • "(age)" denotes the player's age on his birthday that year, regardless of whether that birthday fell before, during, or after the event
  • "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
  • "ol" denotes members of the previous Olympiad team (Buenos Aires 1939)
  • "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, up to and including this one
Débuts and final appearances Diskin, Hickey, Kearney, Killeen, O'Donnell, and O'Sullivan made their débuts. Casey, Davies, and Minnis never played again.
Qualification “Every province may nominate 3 players, and the present Champion will throw his Crown into the ring ...”, “Roddy the Rover” (Irish Press, 3 June 1947 p. 4). The author suggested making Dublin a separate fifth province, and he reported that Austin Bourke had suggested modifying the qualification rules to allow entries by Irish players from overseas.

Three players per province plus the defending champion would have left an odd number of players and thus a bye. Leinster seem to have been allocated one extra nomination, perhaps to deal with this problem. In addition, Leinster nominated John Casey (of Dublin) as a replacement for the defending champion Barney O'Sullivan, who played instead at the Hilversum Zonal tournanent.
Clubs Club affiliations are from the following sources:
  • Casey, Duignan, O'Hanlon, O'Sullivan: Irish Press, March 1, 1947 p. 9
  • Nash: Connaught Telegraph, January 25, 1947 p. 16
  • Davies: Belfast News-Letter, November 13, 1947 p. 2
  • O'Leary: Cork Examiner, March 1, 1947 p. 10
  • Kearney, Minnis: Belfast News-Letter, October 9, 1946 p. 6
  • Diskin, Killeen, O'Donnell: Connaught Telegraph, January 18, 1947 p. 6
Adjournments The progress of results taking adjournments into account can be followed in this text file.
Disambiguation John Casey, b. ca. 1895, is given as "John Casey (1)" to distinguish him from John Casey, b. 1930 or 1931, who played in the Irish championships of 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1952.
Venue “Built in 1880, and having replaced an 18th century financial exchange on the site which in even early centuries was occupied by a castle, its address is 10, 11, 12 & 13 Castle Street, rounding a corner at South Main Street to the winsomly named Paradise Place.” —Historic Cork Catholic Young Mens’ Society Hall up for sale, Irish Examiner, September 14, 2017 (includes photo).
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