Irish Championship 2018 information

Irish Championship 2018

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Basic data

Irish Championship 2018
Dates	August 4-12, 2018
City	Dublin
Venue	Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan, 172 Stillorgan Road, Co. Dublin
Organiser	John McMorrow
Arbiter	Ivan Baburin
Players participating	36
Games played	160
Competition format	9-round Swiss
Eligibility	IRL registration with FIDE; additional rating requirement of 1900+ FIDE or ICU with many exceptions (see Sources and Notes).
Tie break	1. Head-to-head result(s). 2. Rapid playoff between two players. See Sources and Notes.
Time control	40 moves in 105 minutes, plus an additional 30 minutes at move 40, plus a 30 second increment from move 1.
FIDE rated?	Yes (ID 193286)
Prizes	1st €1800; 2nd €1000; 3rd €600; 4th €350
Sponsor	Blackthorne International Transport
Concurrent events	Irish Championship Major 2018, 1st-3rd Jacob Flynn (Malahide), Vahe Paronyan (Armenian C.C.), Danny Roberts (N.I.C.S.) Irish Championship Challengers 2018, 1st-2nd Nikolai Dimitrov (Skerries), Benjamin Murray (St. Benildus) Irish Championship Weekday Open 2018, 1st Diana Mirza (St. Michael's) Irish Championship Open Weekender 2018, 1st-4th Jacob Flynn (Malahide), Ciarán Quinn (Elm Mount), Fiona Steil-Antoni (Gonzaga), Álvaro Valdés Escobar (Elm Mount)
Games available	159 (missing Wallace - Bourached, round 9); at least two garbled (Tirziman - A. O'Gorman, round 7, Manojlovic - C. Nolan, round 9)
References	Sources and notes. If you have any other documents, reports, references, biographical information, annotations or (in particular) photos, please .

Tournament review

“Alex Lopez retained his Irish Championship title in Dublin last Sunday after dominating the event from the outset. The 31-year-old Cork IM won seven and drew two of his nine games for an impressive 8/9 total to claim his third national title by a 1.5 points margin over the strongest field for some years. ...”

—Jim Olney, Irish Examiner, August 18, 2018, p. 55/161.

Interesting games