Irish Championship 2005

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Sources and notes

Sources
Web
Newspapers
  • Irish Examiner: (Jim Olney)
  • July 2, 2005 p. W39 (announcement, entry fees)
  • July 23, 2005, p. W39 (report after round 7, score of Daly - McPhillips, round 7)
  • July 30, 2005, p. W39 (final report, score of Daly - MacElligott, round 9, end of Brady - O'Connell, round 83 (as puzzle))
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  • Sunday Independent: (Alexander Baburin)
  • July 10, 2005 p. S15 (announcement)
  • July 17, 2005 p. S15 (brief update after round 5)
  • July 24, 2005 p. S15 (summary report, annotation of Brady - O'Connell, round 8)


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
  • "ol" denotes members of the previous Olympiad team (Calvià 2004)
  • "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the July 2005 list.
  • ICU ratings are from the May 2005 list.
Colm Daly eligibility From the 2005 ICU AGM minutes: "The difficulties between the ICU and FM Colm Daly were briefly summarised and the reasons behind the decision of the Chairman to temporarily lift the ban on Mr Daly prior to the Irish Championships. Subsequently the ban was fully lifted by the Executive Committee on the 7th August." The Chairman was Eamonn Pitts.
Versions
  • v1.0 (27 Jul 2015): first published version
  • v1.1 (20 Sep 2015): corrected Colm Daly club affiliation; added note on lifting of suspension from Colm Daly; modified format
  • v1.2 (27 Sep 2016): made minor corrections; modified format
  • v1.3 (24 May 2017): corrected ratings and ID numbers for Gerard MacElligott (previous versions had Allan Beveridge's details used instead); added number of championships played for each player
  • v1.4 (29 May 2017): corrected Bernard Palmer's FIDE ID in playable games; corrected two typos on this page
  • v1.5 (29 Jan 2019): deleted PlyCount "0" in Palmer - Fox, round 9; modified playable game format and added extra indexing information in playable game files
  • v1.6 (13 Aug 2020): added newspaper references; added extra notes to Time ccontrol, modified Tie-break and added Prizes and Entry fees entries in Information → Basic data; added links to photos of players in MacElligott - Fitzsimons, round 3, and O'Rourke - Daly, round 8; replaced dead link to TWIC report in Sources → Web and modified other links to eliminate redirects and to specify https; modified co-winner's name for subsidiary event (added accent, abbreviated) in Information → Basic data → Concurrent events; deleted 11 instances of spurious ">"'s
Contributors Seán Coffey


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