Irish Championship 2006 information

Irish Championship 2006

Information

Irish Championship 2006
Dates	July 8-16, 2006
City	Dublin
Venue	St. Benildus College, Upper Kilmacud Rd., Co. Dublin
Tournament Director	Gerard O'Connell
Players participating	12
Games played	52
Competition format	9-round Swiss
Tie break	Tie-break would apply for title in case of a tie between three or more players; otherwise none
Time control	40 moves in two hours, and one hour allegro for each player
Sponsor	None
Missing data, etc.	Game scores for the remaining games
Concurrent events	Irish Intermediate Championship 2006, 1st Peter Hayes (Dublin University) Irish Junior Championship 2006, 1st Senan Bannon (Phibsboro) Irish Championship Open Weekender 2006, 1st Semyon Mkrtchyan (&ndash) Irish Championship Over 1600 Weekender 2006, 1st Semyon Mkrtchyan (&ndash) Irish Championship Under 1600 Weekender 2006, 1st Eddie Gahan (St. Benildus) Irish Championship Under 1200 Weekender 2006, 1st John Collison (–)
References	Sources and notes. If you have any other documents, reports, references, biographical information, annotations or (in particular) photos, please contact us.

See John Healy's round-by-round updates on the ICU web site (July 2006)

Four queens and an underpromotion:
         Short, Philip – Daly, Colm      0-1

The tournament winner put to the test:
         MacElligott, Gerard – Brady, Stephen      0-1

A quick and crushing attack:
         Fitzsimons, David – Boyle, Bernard      1-0

An even quicker and more crushing attack:
         Delaney, Killian – Cafolla, Peter      1-0

A spectacular blunder with an effect on first place:
         Brady, Stephen – Daly, Colm      1-0

And another ("The ultimate truth about chess is that it is a game of chance"—Donner):
         Short, Philip – Jessel, Stephen      1-0