Irish Championship 2020

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Sources and notes

Sources
FIDE records Tournament 249836
Flyer The Irish Championships 2020 (2-page pdf)
ICU web site
Chess24.com Irish Championship (all boards, with engine analysis)
Follow Chess Irish Championship 2020 (live boards)
Chess-Results.com
TWIC
  • TWIC 1344 (summary report; final scores and places)
  • Game file, TWIC 1344 (all 140 games)
Live commentary Henry Li's Twitch channel provided live commentary, with Stephen Jessel, on rounds 4, 6, 7, and 9, and with Carl Jackson on round 8.
Newspapers
  • Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin)
  • July 19, 2020 p. 29 (brief announcement)
  • July 26, 2020 p. 29 (brief announcement)
  • August 2, 2020 p. 31 (brief announcement of tournament starting)
  • August 9, 2020 p. 33 (report after round 6; annotation of Casey - Brady, round 1)
  • August 16, 2020 p. 29 (final report; annotation of Wallace - G. Melaugh, round 3)
Web
Facebook
  • Irish Chess Union Facebook page:
  • Chess tournaments During Covid-19, July 19, 2020 (video (1m., 54s.) of trial event)
  • The Irish Championship 2020, July 31, 2020 (announcement, graphic)
  • Post, August 1, 2020 (re Casey - Brady, round 1); see also regular posts during the championship, including Post, August 1, 2020 (9 photos of players in action in round 1, taken by Eugene Donohoe) and share of Post, August 3, 2020 (European Chess Union post) (photo of venue)


Notes
Key In "Pairings & results",
  • "age" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday that year (regardess of whether the birthday fell before, during, or after the event)
  • "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions
  • "ol" denotes players selected for the 2020 Olympiad (which was postponed and took place in Chennai, 2022). (Tom O'Gorman was not selected for the 2020 team but played in Chennai as a result of winning this event.) (Note: Trisha Kanyamarala, Diana Mirza, and Alice O'Gorman were selected for the Women's Olympiad.)
  • "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one
Time stamps The Chess-Results.com pgn file (download) contains time stamps for all moves.
Withdrawals The Irish government issued a lockdown order for Kildare, Laois, and Offaly on Friday, August 7. As a result, Peter Cafolla, Killian Delaney, and Jonathan O'Connor were unable to play the last two rounds.
Débuts and final appearances Casey, Adam Collins, Goss, Jackson, Peoples, Lara and Leon Putar, and Venkatesan made their Irish championship débuts. Brady, Byrne, Sam Collins, Delaney, Jackson, McHugh, Mirza, Peoples, and Wallace have not played in any subsequently chanmpionship.
Olympiad place The winner was guaranteed an automatic Olympiad place for the next available Olympiad.
Eligibility Under a motion passed at the 2018 AGM, some players could have the rating requirement ignored provided they were nominated by: a. The ICU Executive (maximum 2 players); or b. The tournament organisers (maximum 1 player). In addition, the Irish Women’s Champion, Irish 50+ and 65+ Champions, and all previous IRL winners of this event were automatically eligible to play in the Irish Championship irrespective of rating. (Cf. Appendix 1 of "Irish Championship: Terms and Conditions".) (This was a significant narrowing of eligibility compared to the 2017 championship.)

For this event, Leon Putar, Adam Collins, and Lara Putar were accepted as wildcard entries.

Alex Goss played as a filler to ensure no player had an unwanted bye.
Tie-break The tie-break method (see Terms and Conditions) was adopted for the 2018 championship, based on ICU Executive Committee decision, and subsequently ratified at the 2018 AGM for all Irish championships.
Ratings
  • FIDE ratings are from the August 2020 list.
  • ICU ratings are from the May 2020 list (last list published before start of event).
Versions
  • v0.1 (31 Jul 2020): draft on eve of first round.
  • v0.2 (1 Aug 2020): draft after first round.
  • v0.3 (2 Aug 2020): added full score of Daly - Venkatesan, round 1, kindly provided by Colm Daly.
  • v0.4 (2 Aug 2020): added all games from round 2; added full scores of remaining 6 incomplete games from round 1.
  • v0.5 (3 Aug 2020): added all games from round 3.
  • v0.6 (4 Aug 2020): added all games from round 4.
  • v0.7 (5 Aug 2020); added all games from round 5.
  • v0.8 (6 Aug 2020); added all games from round 6.
  • v0.9 (7 Aug 2020); added all games from round 7.
  • v0.10 (8 Aug 2020); added all games from round 8.
  • v1.0 (9 Aug 2020); first posted version after completion of championship.
  • v1.1 (9 Sep 2024): Changed "age" to "(age)" in Pairings & results and added entry for Kevin McHugh; added spacing between score groups in Pairings & results; removed Livechesscloud item in Sources and notes → Sources (for which link previously pointed to FollowChess); added TWIC item in Sources and notes → Sources; modified "(ol)" entry in Sources and notes → Notes → Key; added Newspapers item in Sources and notes → Sources; added "Débuts and final appearances" item in Sources and notes → Notes; modified Olympiad entry in Sources and notes → Notes; added Annotations index; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; added link to pgn in playable games; added _tables file in directory; added XML directory and file; sundry minor editorial adjustments
Contributors Seán Coffey


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