| Sources |
| FIDE records |
Tournament ID 22728 |
| Web |
- Scores and places, ICU web site
- ICU games archive, as of October 26, 2018 (71 games, of which at least 2 incomplete) (including 1 game, Jeffares - S. Brady, round 9, with incorrect score, 36... Kd5 instead of 36... Kd4; and 1 additional game, C. Brady - Collins, round 2, given under incorrect year (2003))
- CHESS IRELAND, May 30 (tournament announcement) and July 17, 2002 (brief report)
- Season 2001-02, Irish Chess Online (results and reports from season, incluidng this event) (via the Wayback Machine)
- Pairings & results, Irish Chess Online (via the Wayback Machine)
- Review, Colm Daly, dublinchess.com, mid-2003 (tournament review) (via the Wayback Machine)
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| Databases |
Big Database 2017 (ChessBase.com) (71 games) |
| 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 following Olympiad team (Bled 2002)
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| Débuts and final appearances |
Jeffares and Jessel made their Irish championship débuts. Cormac Brady died in January 2003. The other players who never played again were Clarke, Dempsey, Fitzpatrick, Keeshan, and Scannell. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 2002 list
- ICU ratings are from the September 2001 and January 2002 lists
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| Commentary |
Sam Collins, ICU web site, May 15, 2005: "Winning a national championship is probably the first milestone in a lot of sports careers, and chess is no different. To a certain extent such titles are mere fictions (when I won in 2002, for instance, neither Alex Baburin nor Brian Kelly competed), but they are pleasant fictions and tangible achievements. Not everyone gets to win an Irish championship. Though I can't find the games on Megabase, I recall that I won the tournament rather comfortably, and played a good game against Stephen Brady in the penultimate round to close things out.". |
| Errata |
- The ICU games archive (as of October 26, 2018) and Big Database 2017 give the result of Joyce - Dempsey (round 7) as 1-0 instead of 0-1, as given in the crosstable; with the former, Joyce would have been champion.
- In Jeffares - S. Brady (round 9), the ICU web site (as of October 26, 2018) and Big Database 2017 give 36... Kd5. With that, the final position would be equal. Instead Stephen Brady has provided confirmation (for which thanks) that 36... Kd4 was played.
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| Errata? |
In Fitzpatrick - Dempsey, round 2, the end is very strange: Black gives away a bishop in a bizarre way and a draw is agreed immediately after White's capture. |
| Versions |
- v1.0 (27 Oct 2018): first published version
- v1.1 (29 Jan 2019): corrected date of C. Brady - Collins, round 2 (2003.07.07 → 2002.07.07) and added EventDate; corrected date of Palmer - Clarke, round 1 (2002.07.07 → 2007.07.06); added extra indexing information in playable game files
- v1.2 (29 Jan 2021): added light notes to S. Brady - Collins, round 8 and Joyce - Short, round 9; added Annotations index; added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; modified Tie break entry in Information → Basic data; modified wording in Sources and notes → Sources → Web; changed http links to https where possible
- v1.3 (30 Jan 2021): added light notes to Collins - Ó Cinnéide, round 5, and added to Annotations index; added link to Irish Chess Online season reports page in Sources and notes → Sources → Web; added Herbert Scarry's review in Information → Tournament review; added link to Colm Daly's tournament review in Sources and notes → Sources → Web; specified Irish Chess Online as source for Pairings & results table in Sources and notes → Sources → Web
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| Contributors |
Seán Coffey |