| Sources |
| FIDE records |
Tournament ID 59776 |
| Magazine reports |
Irish Chess Journal, August 2011, pp. 20-23 |
| Tournament flyer |
See the full flyer (2-page pdf) |
| Web |
- Official tournament web site, June 23, 2011 and July 16, 2011, via the Wayback Machine
- TWIC 870, item 19, 11 July 2011 (totals, ratings, places, round results by player); TWIC 870 games file (all 115 games)
- ICU games archive (all 115 games)
- Phibsboro C.C. site (Stephen Brady background)
- Ficheall (Tony Foley), Missed opportunity at the Irish championship, July 9, 2011
- Atticus C.C. web pages, "Irish Chess Championship 2011", 8 July 2011 and 11 July 2011 (http://www.atticus.merseysidechess.org.uk/the-club/51-club-news/166-irish-chess-championship-2011.html and http://www.atticus.merseysidechess.org.uk/the-club/51-club-news/167-irish-chess-championship-2011.html: redirected links as of November 29, 2020)
- John Redmond blog, Irish Championships 2011, 13 July 2011
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| Blogs |
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| Newspapers |
- Irish Examiner (Jim Olney):
- July 23, 2011 p. 18 (report, unannotated score of Brady - O-Connor, round 4)
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| 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 Irish team at the previous Olympiad (Khanty-Mansiysk 2010)
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
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| Débuts and final appearances |
Of the Irish players, Courtney and King made their Irish championship débuts; Doyle and McCabe never played again. Janusaitis, based in Ireland though not IRL-registered, also made his début. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 2011 list
- ICU ratings are from the May 2011 list
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| Tiebreak |
Seán Hewitt initially anounced that ties for the title of Irish champion would be resolved via a rapidplay playoff (see event page, e2e4.co.uk web site, May 13, 2011 and also comment, LCU blog, May 16, 2011), but later received feedback that this was not consistent with ICU policy, and changed the announcement to say that the title would be shared (see comment, Seán Coffey, LCU blog, July 10, 2011).
ICU policy and/or practice since 1975 had been that a tie between exactly two (eligible) players would result in a shared title, but (since at least 1982) a tie between three or more would result in a single champion via tie-break (progressive / cumulative 1982-c. 1989; series starting with Buchholz 1990-2010).
In a comment (July 15, 2012) on the LCU blog (in a thread on tiebreaks for the 2012 championship), Seán Hewitt wrote that "I’ve checked my emails from last year to see what was said at that time. I was told that in the event of a tie the title of Irish Champion would be shared by all eligible players. For the purposes of the Olympiad place though I was empowered to decide what to do and decided that a rapidplay play off would be held between all eligible players. Anyone not wanting to go to the Olympiad would not participate. The ICU executive indicated in those emails that they did not want to have a shared Irish Champion in future, saying "at the last committee meeting we sorted out the main issue of contention, the tie-break when there are 2 players tied for first place. yes, we will have to bring this rule to the attention of the AGM, so that there can only be a single champion". I have no idea if this happened though!".
So it seems that a three or more way tie in 2011 would have resulted in a shared title between all eligible players. |
| Location change |
Seán Hewitt initially announced that the event would be held in Dundalk, Co. Louth (see event page, ICU web site, as of May 11, 2011 (via the Wayback Machine)), but, after extensive commentary, changed to a Dublin location. |
| Versions |
- v1.0: first published version (after end of tournament)
- v1.1: added pgn file, links to: FIDE tournament report, flyer, TWIC report, ICU games archive, Ficheall commentary on Daly-Brady, extra report from Ennis C.C., annotation of McCabe-Short, Phibsboro C.C. web site notice; two more interesting games; removed link to Colm Daly's Irish Chess Championships site (which no longer points to the 2011 championship)
- v1.2: added references to August 2011 ICJ, including several annotations, added John Redmond's annotation of his game against Jonathan O'Connor (also added to selection of interesting games), and an annotation of Daly-Redmond from the Atticus C.C. web pages; changed Redmond's affiliation to Atticus; updated annotations index
- v1.3 (7 Jan 2012): due to a bug, now corrected, the annotations of O'Connor-Redmond and Daly-Redmond did not appear in v1.2; some browsers don't display the commentary for these two games in the popup window
- v1.4 (6 Aug 2013): added index lines to .htm files, removed popup windows for games
- v1.5 (8 Aug 2013): corrected problem with hypertext links from games to tournament report
- v1.6 (25 Nov 2013): modified layout
- v1.7 (14 Dec 2014): corrected link from games to event information
- v1.8 (9 Oct 2015): deleted "Discrepancies" in Notes; added player ages; deleted tpr*; corrected Freeman club affiliation; removed remaining (inoperative) pop-up game code in "Interesting games"; added links to OlimpBase for Olympiad; corrected openings index; modified layout
- v1.9 (27 Sep 2016): modified format
- v1.10 (30 May 2017): added Darren McCabe club affiliation; deleted Daire McMahon's; added number of championships played for each player; added FIDE IDs to pgn embedded in playable games
- v1.11 (30 Jan 2019): corrected dates of all games in rounds 5-8 and all non-null games in round 9 (all one day later than previously given); added prizes in Information; modified layout of playable games and added extra indexing information in playable game files
- v1.12 (2 Dec 2020): changed description of tie-break in Information → Basic data and added note in Sources and Notes → Notes; added note on location change in Sources and Notes → Notes; removed David Murray's middle initial throughout; added Keogh - Doyle, round 7, to list of Interesting games; modified links to replace dead links with alternatives or archived versions in Sources and Notes → Sources → Web and → Blogs; corrected sundry typos; changed http to https links where possible
- v1.13 (3 Dec 2020): modified description of tie-break in Information → Basic data and Sources and Notes → Notes → Tie-break to include Seán Hewitt comment on his email from the ICU Executive Committee
- v1.14 (9 Mar 2021): removed dead link to e2e4 Chess in Information → Basic data → Arbiter; removed descriptions in Information → Interesting games; added newspaper report in Sources and notes → Sources and added reference in Brady - O'Connor, round 4; added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; added number of championships played for David Murray (inadvertently removed in v1.12)
- v1.15 (24 Aug 2022): removed Sources in playable games; added Concurrent events entry in Information → Basic data; added Débuts and final appearances entry in Sources and notes → Notes; changed "tie break" and "tie-break" to "tiebreak" everywhere except in quoted ICU email in Sources and notes → Notes → Tiebreak, and added some details to the latter entry; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; added _tables file in directory; added XML directory and file
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| Author |
Seán Coffey |