Irish Championship 2010

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Sources and notes

Sources
Entry form Irish Championship 2010 entry form (2-page pdf)
FIDE records Tournament ID 52814
Magazine reports Irish Chess Journal, October 2010, pp. 6-10
Video
Web
Newspapers
  • Irish Examiner (Jim Olney):
  • July 24, 2010 p. 106 (Weekend p. 38) (final report, scores of Daly - Lopez, round 4, and J. Delaney - Short, round 8, puzzle based on Redmond - Lopez, round 8)
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  • Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin):
  • July 18, 2010 p. 28 (final report, annotation of Redmond - Lopez, round 8)
Databases ChessBase's Big Database 2017 has 63 games
Blogs


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)
  • "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
  • "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
  • "ol" denotes members of the Irish team at the Olympiad later the same year (Khanty-Mansiysk 2010)
Débuts and final appearances Of the Irish players, Lopez made his Irish championship début; Boyle, John Delaney, Griffiths, Kalam, and Porter never played again.
Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the July 2010 list
  • ICU ratings are from the May 2010 list
Versions
  • v1.0: first posted version
  • v1.1: added links to videos from rounds 5 and 8; added link to annotation of Daly-Lopez; added tournament performance ratings
  • v1.2 (1 Dec 2011): added Annotations index; added link to John Redmond's blog
  • v1.3 (1 Jun 2012): corrected name of javascript file (games would not play in v1.2); added index line to all .htm files
  • v1.3 (25 Nov 2013): modified layout
  • v1.4 (19 Nov 2015): added player ages; added club affiliations for Alex Lopez, Mark Orr, John Redmond, and Paul Wallace; corrected move count for Daly-Lopez (round 4); removed modified performance (tpr*) ratings; modified layout
  • v1.5 (27 Sep 2016): modified format
  • v1.6 (24 Apr 2017): added championships played for each player; modified pgn format
  • v1.7 (30 May 2017): added FIDE IDs in pgn embedded in playable games
  • v1.9 (17 Jan 2019): corrected game dates for Wallace - Fox, Boyle - Butler, Loughran - McCabe and Benson - K. Delaney (all round 5) (2010.07.08 → 2010.07.07), Orr - Redmond (round 7) (2010.07.10 → 2010.07.09) and the null games McCabe - Did not play (round 2) (2010.07.03 → 2010.07.04), Murray - Daly (round 7) (2010.07.10 → 2010.07.09) and Boyle - K. Delaney (round 7) (2010.07.10 → 2010.07.09); corrected link to ICU games archive in Sources & Notes; updated link to TWIC 818 and removed associated note in Sources & Notes; modified dead links to Leinster Chess Cogitations blog in Sources & Notes to Wayback Machine version; modified notes to Fitzsimons - Cafolla (round 5) and added to Interesting games; modified header for Daly - Lopez (round 4) and Lopez - Griffiths (round 5) in Interesting games; removed obsolete note about erratum in ICU games archive in Sources & Notes (no longer the case after revision of that archive in January 2018); added Big database 2017 in Sources; corrected minor typos; modified format of playable games
  • v1.10 (7 Mar 2021): removed dead link to venue hotel, modified address, in Information → Basic data; added "Prize fund" entry in Information → Basic data; added "Entry form" entry in Sources and notes → Sources; added newspaper references in Sources and notes → Sources, modified Redmond - Lopez, round 8, accordingly, and added to Annotations index; removed link to ICU games archive and added version date instead in Sources and notes → Sources → Web; removed dead link to TWIC 818 games archive in Sources and notes → Sources → Web; added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; added number of championships played for Ryan Rhys-Griffiths in Pairings & results; deleted David Murray's middle initial throughout; removed zipped games_irlch2010 file, dated April 25, 2017; modified URLs to change http to https where possible and to eliminate redirects
  • v1.11 (20 Apr 2022): corrected (previously broken) links to Irish Chess Journal in Annotations index; added annotations from Irish Chess Journal (Cafolla - Brady (1), K. Delaney - Cafolla (2), and Orr - Daly (3)) and from ICU games archive (Brady - Orr (2)) in playable games, and added editorial comments to the second and last of these; added notes to Brady - O'Connell (4) and added to Annotations index; added Fitzsimons - Cafolla (5) to Annotations index; removed Rodriguez Lopez - Brady (5) from list of interesting games on Information page; changed Olympiad column ("ol") in Pairings & results to reflect 2010 Olympiad rather than 2008; modified Tie break entry in Information → Basic data to add reference to 1994 rules; added Concurrent events in Information → Basic data; modified "Débuts and final appearances" item in Sources and notes → Notes, to remove Séamus Duffy as a player who had never played again; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; added file irlch2010_tables.txt in directory; added xml directory and file irlch2010_tables.xml