| Sources |
| FIDE records |
Tournament 138877 |
| ICU web site |
Entry form (4-page pdf) |
| Chess-Results.com |
Tournament results (pairings, results, 69 games). |
| TWIC |
TWIC 1031 report (final scores) and game collection (64 games) |
| Newspapers |
- Irish Examiner (Jim Olney):
- July 23, 2016 p. 154 (W55) (report, score of Jessel - Fox, round 7)
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| Web |
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| Notes |
| Key |
In "Pairings & results", - "age" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year (regardless of whether the birthday fell before, during, or after the event)
- "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
- "ol" denotes members of the previous Olympiad team (Tromsø 2014)
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
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| Photos |
The Irish Chess Union Facebook page has 32 photos taken on the last day, including the championship prizegiving as well as the concurrent events |
| Olympiad place |
The winner was guaranteed an automatic Olympiad place for the 2018 Olympiad. (The deadline for the 2016 Olympiad in Baku had passed by the time the championship began. The selected team for that event includes both Stephen Jessel and Colm Daly.) |
| Eligibility |
Under a motion passed at the 2014 AGM, a large number of players could be nominated without any required minimum rating: (1) 3 players by the ICU Executive; (2) 3 players, who must be under 18, by the Junior Officer; (3) 1 player by each Provinical Delegate; (4) 1 player by the tournament organisers. Under a second motion, also passed at the 2014 AGM, the Irish Women's Champion, Irish Veteran's Champion, Irish Intermediate Champion, and Irish Open champion were all eligible to play regardless of rating. |
| Débuts and final appearances |
Beatty, Haque, Melaugh, Mirza, Scott, and Tirziman made their Irish championship débuts. Beatty and Thee have not played in any subsequent championship. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 2016 list.
- ICU ratings are from the May 2016 list.
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| Live games |
Seven live games were broadcast on the ICU web site and (with engine analysis) at Chessdom.com for most rounds. |
| Clubs |
Stephen Jessel's club affiliation is from 1ère Norme de Stephen Jessel, Echiquier du Vésinet web pages, 6 Jun 2014 (via the Wayback Machine). He also played one game for Gonzaga during the 2015-16 season (in the Armstrong Cup), and Gonzaga was listed as his club affiliation at the event. |
| Rooms |
Round 1 was moved shortly before the start time to the Fitzgerald Room, because of another event taking place outside the planned tournament room. Other rounds took place in the Quad Room. |
| Talking points |
The small entry and lack of almost all leading players caused considerable negative commentary. See for example The Good Old Days thread, Boards.ie, 19 Jun 2016 onwards. |
| Versions |
- v0.1 (4 Jul 2016): first published version.
- v0.2 (5 Jul 2016): added round 4 games; added two games from first three rounds; added note on eligibility.
- v0.3 (7 Jul 2016): added rounds 5 and 6 games; added link to ICU running report.
- v0.4 (8 Jul 2016): added round 7, including games from boards 1-7.
- v0.5 (10 Jul 2016): added round 8 and 9; added list of concurrent events plus winners.
- v1.0 (14 Jul 2016): corrected missing items on Information page; corrected Note about automatic Olympiad place (to 2018 instead of 2016); added remaining game; added reference to photos of subsidiary events; added TWIC report to Sources; changed tense.
- v1.1 (23 Jul 2016): corrected glitch involving link from Delaney-Fox (round 5) to round bulletin.
- v1.2 (17 Aug 2016): added score of Melaugh - Keogh, round 7, previously missing (v1.1 incorrectly stated that all games were included)
- v1.3 (20 Sep 2016): removed "not submitted" note from references to FIDE report; modified format.
- v1.4 (21 Sep 2016): modified format.
- v1.5 (1 Oct 2016): added light notes to some games; modified format.
- v1.6 (9 May 2017): corrected link to tournament report from playable games; added numbers of championships played per player; modified format.
- v1.7 (1 Jun 2017): corrected bug in which 7 games from round 6 were incorrectly shown in round reports as being played in round 9.
- v1.8 (31 Jan 2019): added note about dead link to Irish Chess Union.net in Sources → Web; modified link to Échiquier du Vésinet web pages in Notes → Clubs; modified layout of playable games and added extra indexing information in playable game files.
- v1.9 (12 June 2020): modified playable games to correct major bug (games would not play)
- v1.10 (25 Mar 2021): added "Prize fund" and "Entry fee" entries and modified "Tie break" entry in Information → Basic data; modified link to Chess-Results.com page in Sources and notes → Sources to point to final crosstable instead of round 1; modified tense in Sources and notes → Notes → Olympiad place; added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; modified URLs to change http to https where possible
- v1.11 (24 Aug 2022): added Annotations index; 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
- v.12 (23 Feb 2024): added number of championships for Haque in Pairings & results (previously inadvertently omitted); added spacing between score groups in Pairings & results, and modified other spacing; changed dead URL in Sources and notes → Notes → Clubs to version from the Wayback Machine; added link to pgn from playable games; changed http to https where possible
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| Contributors |
Seán Coffey |