Irish Championship 1975

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Sources and notes

Sources
Scoresheets Alan Ludgate's scoresheets (8 games with contemporary notes, full results of rounds 1 and 4-8, partial results of rounds 2 and 3)
Photo Alan Ludgate provided a photo of the prizegiving.
ICU web site
Magazines
Newspapers
  • Irish Independent:
  • "Chess championship tournament venue", July 8, 1975 p. 13
  • "Senior chess test begins", July 14, 1975 p. 9
  • "Chess", July 16, 1975 p. 12
  • "Chess", July 19, 1975 p. 11
  • "A tie for chess title", July 23, 1975 p. 16
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  • Irish Press:
  • "Chess", July 14, 1975 p. 12
  • "Wallace and Delaney lead", July 17, 1975 p. 11
  • "Chess", July 18, 1975 p. 16
  • "Chess", July 21, 1975 p. 12
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  • Irish Times:
  • "Championship to be played over eight rounds", July 5, 1975 p. 5
  • "72 competitors in chess events", July 11, 1975 p. 4
  • "Championships at Drumcondra", July 14, 1975 p. 13
  • "Lead shared in chess championship", July 16, 1975 p. 15
  • "Irish senior chess championship", July 17, 1975 p. 6
  • "Young players lead in chess championship", July 18, 1975 p. 15
  • "Teenage leaders beaten in senior chess event", July 19, 1975 p. 13
  • "Ludgate and Keogh tie for championship", July 21, 1975 p. 6
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  • Sunday Independent:
  • October 26, 1975 p. 17 (Crowe - Cummins, round 6)
  • November 2, 1975 p. 14 (Denny - Prendergast, round 2)
  • November 9, 1975 p. 18 (McGuinness - Cummins, round 2)


Notes
Key In "Pairings & results",
  • "age" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year (even if the birthday fell after the event)
  • "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
  • "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
  • "ol" denotes members of the previous Olympiad team (Nice 1974)

In "Crosstable",
  • "U" denotes results against unknown opponents
Discrepancies
  • Alan Ludgate is given in many newspaper reports as living in Manchester. He had played for Manchester University in 1970-73 but then moved near to Liverpool (Alan Ludgate, email of February 22, 2018).
  • The CHESS report gives "O. McGuiness" for McGuinness and "A. Cooles" for Cootes; Lewis's report in BCM gives "J. James", "C. McCormick", and "O. MacGuinness".
Club Club affiliations for Leinster players are from various newspaper reports of the 1974-75 league season. Ulster club affiliations are carried over from the affiliations shown for the 1974 Irish championship. Alan Ludgate's club affiliation is from his email of February 22, 2018.
Tie break The tie break system in 1972 was a playoff match. When did it change? It's possible that a match was envisioned, but became impractical when one of the tied players lived in England. One early report (Irish Times, July 21) said that Keogh and Ludgate "will shortly play off for the title". "I can't remember any discussion of a playoff in 75. Maybe we were asked at the prize giving and both said we were happy to share it."—Alan Ludgate, via email, December 7, 2017.
Ages Year of birth is unknown for Denny and Heathwood, but both played on the 1975 Glorney Cup team (David Dunne, Paul Wallace, Rolande Anderson, Paul Hadden, Brian Denny, George Heathwood: Evening Herald, July 24, 1975 p. 16), so they must have been around 18.
Débuts and final appearances 14 players had never played in an Irish championship before. Of these 5 (Alfred, Cummins, Denny, Heathwood, Prakash) never played again. McGuinness and Hadden were the other players who never played again.
Sai Prakash See Indo-Global Education Summit & Expo 2017 Programme in Chennai, July 2017, p. 113, for a biography and photo of Sai Prakash as of 2017. As of the same year, he was the listed contact for the Trinity Alumni Branch in Bangalore.
Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the January 1975 list
  • LCU ratings are from the list published in September 1974 (Irish Press, September 26, 1974 p. 13; Irish Independent, September 27, 1974 p. 13) (top 12 players, down to 2048)
Versions
  • v1.0 (22 May 2018): first published version
  • v1.1 (28 May 2018): added Tony Doyle's analysis of McGuinness – Ludgate, round 6
  • v1.2 (26 Jan 2019): added extra indexing information in playable game files
  • v1.3 (23 Jun 2019): added scores of McGuinness - Cummins, round 2, Denny - Pinkerton, round 2, and Crowe - Cummins, round 6 from Sunday Independent articles in October-November 1975 (via David McAlister) and adapted other material accordingly throughout; added many entries to 'U' (unknown) column in Crosstable; added entry on 'U' column in Crosstable to Sources and Notes → Notes → Key; added David Jackson's first name; added entry on Best Game prize in Information; added McGuinness - Ludgate, round 6, plus two of the three new games, to list of Interesting games
  • v1.4 (10 Feb 2021): added Michael Crowe's age in Pairings & results; changed "Débuts" entry in Sources and notes → Notes to "Débuts and final appearances" and modified entry accordingly; changed http links to https where possible
Contributors Alan Ludgate, Seán Coffey, David McAlister, Tony Doyle


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