| Sources |
| FIDE records |
Tournament 69207 |
| Tournament web site |
2012 Irish Chess Championships (as of July 7, 2012 (last version available)) (via the Wayback Machine) |
| ICU web site |
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| Newspapers |
- Irish Examiner (Jim Olney):
- July 28, 2012 p. 18 (final report, unannotated score of Brady - Cafolla, round 9)
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- Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin):
- July 15, 2012 p. 30 (leading scores after round 7)
- July 22, 2012 p. 28 (final report, annotation of Courtney - Firstov, round 3)
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| Video |
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| Web / blogs |
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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 previous Olympiad team (Khanty-Mansiysk 2010)
- "#ch" denotes number of Irish championships player participated in, up to and including this one
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| Débuts and final appearances |
Of the Irish players, Gedvilaite made her Irish championship début; Courtney and Gedvilaite have not played subsequently.
In addition, both Firstov and Janusaitis were resident in Ireland. Firstov made his Irish championship début; neither player has played subsequently. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 2011 list.
- ICU ratings are from the May 2012 list.
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| Discrepancies/errata |
- The score given for Daly - Fitzsimons, round 2, in Colm Daly's annotation of the game on the LCU blog differs from the version shown here, which comes from the tournament web site. The LCU blog version finished 40. Qe7+ Kg6 41. d6 h4 42. Qe8+ Kg7 43. gxh4 Qg4+ 44. Kf1 Qh3+ 45. Kg1 Qg4+ 1/2-1/2.
- The score given on the tournament web site for Daly – Courtney (round 4) differed from the version shown here, which comes from the winner, via the LCU Blog: Tipster Comp ...........Continued (via the Wayback Machine).
- For Fitzsimons – Brady (round 4), the tournament web site gave the ambiguous 17. Rb1. This should be 17. Rab1.
- The FIDE tournament report gives an incorrect number of players (possibly left unchanged from the previous year's report?) and time control. The time control shown is the one also shown on the entry form, but this was changed at popular request just before the tournament.
- Alexander Baburin, in his Sunday Independent report, said that “Firstov had a better tiebreak score, so the young player from Estonia, who's been resident in Ireland for the past few years, took the title of the 2012 Irish Chess Champion”. Jim Olney said that Firstov had finished first on tie-break, but since he was not eligible for the title, it was shared between Brady and Daly. Baburin's account is clearly incorrect. Olney's account, though it comes to the correct conclusion, also seems inaccurate: it seems more natural to exclude Firstov as ineligible before applying any tie-break, and since exactly two players would remain, no tie-break would apply.
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| Tie-break |
Since 1975, the ICU practice and/or policy was that two eligible tied players would share the title, but (since at least 1982) for three or more a tie-break would apply. In 1982 and 1996, three-way ties were resolved by tie-break to produce a single champion. For 1982, the tie-break method was progressive / cumulative.
For the 2012 championship, there was no description before the event of how ties between three or more eligible players would be handled. The potential close finish caused considerable discussion on the LCU blog during the event. (Going into the last round, there were two different possible six-way ties for first, each with five players eligible for the title of Irish champion.) John Delaney provided the 1982 rule ("Two way and its shared. 3 way tie results in use of cumulative score as first tie break, as in 1982 from memory. Still in force I believe.": see comment in Tipster Cometition,,,,,,,,Continued Again thread, July 13, 2012); Peter Cafolla announced that a meeting of some but not all players before the final round had agreed that all eligible players would share the title ("There was a meeting today before the round started and although any late comers missed it it was decided that in the event of a multiple tie ALL the winners shall share the title........this is the fairest particularly with a small field.": see comment in Tipster Comp.........Part 4 thread, July 14, 2012); and finally Colm Daly (then ICU PRO) announced that the tie-break for three or more would be Median Buchholz ("Must be a secret meeting because I was told very clearly [after the round had started] that if three people are n the same points [except for Yuri who can only ever win joint share of the prize]then there will be a tie break but no play off and it will be bucholz that decides who gets the title. While if it is two people then they share the title.": comment, July 14, 2012, same thread; "BTW Apologies to all when I mentioned Bucholz system I had meant to say Bucholz Median but because I forgot that they are not the one and the same I caused some confusion by appearing to suggest two different tie break systems. Of course there is only one to be used and that is bucholz MEDIAN.", comment, same thread, July 15, 2012). (All links via the Wayback Machine.) |
| Tipster competition |
The tipster competition was won by Martin Crichton. |
| Versions |
- v1.0 (21 Jul 2012): first published version.
- v1.1 (20 Feb 2013): corrected round dates (which gave 2011), added link to Colm Daly's annotation of Daly – Fitzsimons, modified reference to LCU blog in tournament report section.
- v1.2 (2 Jul 2013): corrected en passant bug, removed popup games.
- v1.3 (24 Nov 2013): modified layout.
- v1.4 (10 Oct 2015): added club affiliation for Cafolla; added player ages; removed tpr*; corrected openings index; modified layout.
- v1.5 (28 Sep 2016): modified layout.
- v1.6 (30 Jan 2019): corrected typo in Notes → Ratings (FIDE ratings from June 2011 → June 2012); changed LCU blog dead links to version from Wayback Machine; modified note in playable games; modified layout of playable games and added extra indexing information in playable game files.
- v1.7 (3 Dec 2020): modified Daly - Fitzsimons, round 2, to add Colm Daly's notes (previously referenced), and also to add note on diverging versions of this game, and added similar note to Sources and Notes → Notes → Discrepancies/errata; modified Cafolla - Firstov, round 1, to add Peter Cafolla's notes (previously unreferenced), and added to list of annotated games; added links to video in playable games for Fitzsimons - Brady, round 4, and Firstov - Redmond and O'Connell - Brady, both round 7; modified description of tie-break in Information → Basic data and added note in Sources and Notes → Notes; corrected Sources and Notes → Notes → Ratings (FIDE list July 2012, not July 2011 as given previously; should have been fixed in v1.6 but wasn't); changed dead link to tournament web site in Sources and Notes → Sources to last version from the Wayback Machine; added winner of tipster competition in Sources and Notes → Notes; updated links to eliminate redirects and to change http to https where possible; sundry minor cosmetic changes.
- v1.8 (10 Mar 2021): added newspaper references in Sources and notes → Sources, and modified Courtney - Firstov, round 3, and Brady - Cafolla, round 9, accordingly; added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; changed tense in the second and third items in "Discrepancies and errata" entry in Sources and notes → Notes to reflect unavailability of relevant version of tournament web site; added note in Sources and notes → Notes → Discrepancies/errata on description of tie-break outcome in newspaper articles; corrected first item in v1.7 of this versions entry (Daly - Fitzsimons previously given as from round 1); removed Cafolla's club affiliation (he had played for Rathmines during the 2011-12 season, but left the club at some point around then); added reference to commentary in Brady - Daly, round 3
- v1.9 (25 Mar 2024): added Colm Daly / Joe Ryan notes to Brady - Daly, round 3, and added to Annotations index; added titles in Pairings & results and in playable games; added number of championships played in Pairings & results (this and titles previously omitted, though the columns were there); added link to ICU ratings report in Sources and notes → Sources → ICU web site, and reformatted the item; added irlch2012_tables.txt file in directory; added XML directory and file; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; added link to download pgn from each playable game; added spacing between score groups in Pairings & results, and modified other spacing
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| Contributors |
Seán Coffey |