| Sources |
| FIDE records |
Tournament 160380 |
| ICU web site |
- Announcement
- Entry form, March 15, 2017 (5-page pdf) and July 16, 2017 (5-page pdf)
- The Irish Championships 2017: IM Norms possible, March 28, 2017
- The Irish Championships 2017: Preview, John McMorrow, May 15, 2017 onwards
- The Irish Championship 2017: To the winners go the spoils, August 6, 2018 (brief summary of winners)
- Irish Chess Championship 2017 complete games database now available (71 games)
- Ratings report
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| Chess24.com |
Irish Championship (70 games, with engine analysis; commentary) |
| Chess-Results.com |
Tournament results (pairings to round 8, results to round 7). |
| TWIC |
TWICs 1186 (news item and game collection (15 games)) and 1187 (report (final scores) and game collection (55 games)) |
| Chess Today |
- CT-212 (6114), 2 August 2017 (Li - Baburin, round 3)
- CT-214 (6116), 4 August 2017 (Tirziman - MacElligott, round 2)
- CT-223 (6121), 11 August 2017 (leading places and scores, annotation of Daly - Lopez, round 8)
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| Newspapers |
- Sunday Independent, August 13, 2017 (summary report, annotation of end of Daly - Lopez, round 8)
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| Web |
- 2017 Irish Championship thread, Boards.ie, February 19, 2017 onwards
- Irish Championships 2017, Rory Quinn, Ennis C.C. blog, July 4, 2017 (announcement)
- Irish Championships 1 week to go, Rory Quinn, Ennis C.C. blog, July 22, 2017
- 5 way tie in the first weekender, Rory Quinn, Ennis C.C. blog, July 30, 2017
- Lopez and Short win Irish Championships, Rory Quinn, Ennis C.C. blog, August 6, 2017 (report plus photo of winners)
- FIGHT AVERTED IN RD 2 OF 2017 IRISH CH, Colm Daly, Irish Chess Cogitations blog, August 3, 2017 (dead link as of February 1, 2019)
- BABURIN SET TO WIN 2017 IRISH CHAMPIONSHIPS?, Colm Daly, Irish Chess Cogitations blog, August 4, 2017 (dead link as of February 1, 2019)
- SHORT RETAINS LEAD – DEFEATS BABURIN, Colm Daly, Irish Chess Cogitations blog, August 4, 2017 (includes video of last 5 minutes of Baburin - Short game) (dead link as of February 1, 2019)
- CORKONIAN LEGENDS WIN 2017 IRISH CH, Colm Daly, Irish Chess Cogitations blog, August 9, 2017 (includes video of last 5 minutes of Baburin - Short game) (dead link as of February 1, 2019)
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| Facebook |
The Irish Chess Union Facebook page had brief updates, for example post, August 6, 2017 (Philip Short IM norm; photo) |
| Notes |
| Key |
In "Pairings & results", - "(age)" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year (regardless of whether that birthday fell before, during, or after the event)
- "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
- "ol" denotes members of the previous Olympiad team (Baku 2016)
- "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
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| Débuts and final appearances |
Gavin Melaugh made his Irish championship début. Rory Quinn has not played in any subsequent championship. |
| Venue change |
The event was originally scheduled to take place at the Savoy Hotel in Limerick, but the ICU announced in March that it had to be moved as the hotel was closed for renovations during the championship time frame. |
| IM norm |
Philip Short's IM norm was the first ever earned in an Irish championship, but the norm was never submitted to FIDE, due to Philip's lack of interest in pursuing it. |
| Olympiad place |
The winner was guaranteed an automatic Olympiad place for the 2018 Olympiad. |
| Late change |
Paul Walsh withdrew on the Tuesday before the event and was replaced by Luke Scott. |
| 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. |
| Ratings |
- FIDE ratings are from the July 2017 list.
- ICU ratings are from the July 2017 list.
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| Versions |
- v1.0 (7 Dec 2018): first published version.
- v1.1 (8 Dec 2018): corrected link (Information → Concurrent events → Major); deleted incorrect item (Sources & Notes → Notes → Photos) (item was from report on 2016 Irish championship).
- v1.2 (1 Feb 2019): added notes about dead links to Irish Chess Cogitations web site in Sources → Web; modified one link to open in new window (Sources → Web → boards.ie); added extra indexing information in playable game files
- v1.3 (26 Mar 2021): corrected Sources and notes → Sources → Facebook entry and removed Sources and notes → Notes → Facebook entry (which each previously pointed to photographs from the 2016 championship); added "Débuts and final appearances" entry in Sources and notes → Notes; added 25 games to Annotations index (previously only external annotations were listed, whereas now any game containing notes with moves is listed); changed ratings shown in playable games to those in effect at beginning of tournament (previously games from August 1 onwards showed August ratings); modified URL to change http to https where possible
- v1.4 (26 Mar 2024): changed "age" to "(age)" in Pairings & results; modified description of "(age)" in Sources and notes → Notes → Key; corrected spacing in notes in several playable games; added irlch2017_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 |