Irish Championship 2024 sources

Irish Championship 2024

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Sources and notes

Sources
FIDE records	Tournament 381591
Flyer	The 103nd Irish Chess Championship 2024 (2-page pdf document)
ICU web site	Tournament page Irish Championship: Terms and Conditions (T & C as of August 19, 2023 (version in place as of start of event)) Rating report
Lichess	The 103rd Irish Championship 2024 (live boards) pgn file of all games in rounds 1-2 and 4-9 (including times taken for all moves)
Livechesscloud	The 103rd Irish Chess Championship 2024 (live boards, rounds 1-2 and 4-9) (pgn file) The 103rd Irish Chess Championship 2024 (live boards, round 3) (pgn file)
TWIC	TWIC 1553, item 32 (brief report, scores and places of top 40 players) TWIC 1553 pgn file (all games) (irlch2024-twic.pgn)
Chess-Results.com	Pairings & results, etc.
Twitch	Mark Quinn and Jonathan O'Connor provided live commentary on all rounds on Mark's Twitch channel.
Newspapers	Sligo Champion “Two local chess players impress at senior Irish Chess Championships”, August 14, 2024 p. 57 (report, focussing on Lukian Hushpit and Yannick Woods, with photo of both playing) Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin) July 28, 2024 p. 25 (brief announcement) August 4, 2024 p. 27 (brief mention of tournament starting) August 11, 2024 p. 27 (brief mention of tournament near finish) August 25, 2024 p. 25 (report; annotation of Fitzsimons - Liu, round 8)
Web	Boards.ie Irish Championships 2024, August 3, 2024 onwards Chess Mail (Tim Harding) Fitzsimons very close to first Irish title, August 10, 2024 (report after round 8), Fitzsimons is the new Irish champion, August 11, 2024 (preliminary final report while last round was in progress), Fitzsimons is the new Irish champion, August 12, 2024 (final report), and 2025 Championship will be held in Ennis, August 13, 2024 (archived version) (final report revision), David Fitzsimons is 2024 Irish Champion, c. August 14, 2024 (relocated and slightly revised version) Elm Mount C.C. Irish Champion 2024!, August 11, 2024 (announcement plus photo) Ennis Chess (Rory Quinn) Irish Championships Underway, Jones wins British Championships, August 6, 2024 (brief report after round 4) Fitzsimons wins Irish Championships, August 14, 2024 (brief report) St. Benildus C.C. (Kevin Burke) Irish Championships start today, August 3, 2024 (brief report from St. Benildus perspective)
Facebook	Irish Chess Union Post, August 12, 2024 (announcement of winner, photo) Alexander Baburin: Post, August 25, 2024 (end of Cafolla - Murchadha, round 2, as puzzle)
YouTube	IM David Fitzsimons' Irish Chess Championship Victory Speech, ChessATC, August 11, 2024 (1m., 45s.) The Irish Chess Championships 2024: Closing Ceremony, ChessATC, August 11, 2024 (10m., 1s.)

Notes
Key	In "Pairings & results", "(age)" denotes the player's age on his or her birthday in 2024 (irrespective of whether the birthday fell before, during, or after the event) "x-ch" denotes former Irish champions "ol" denotes players who were selected for the in the 2024 (Open) Olympiad, Budapest (Antonina Góra, Alice O'Gorman, and Lara Putar were selected for the 2024 Women's Olympiad) "ch#" denotes the number of championships the player played in, including this one "—" in clubs column denotes Unaffiliated
Olympiad place	The winner was guaranteed an automatic Olympiad place for the 2026 (open) Olympiad.
Débuts	Arun, Barnes, Braine, Gallagher, Geaney-O'Brien, Góra, Govindaraju, Hushpit, Lorigan, Murray, O'Neill, O'Reilly, O'Rourke, Paibir, Parouare, Gavin Sheahan, Sidney, Stokes, and Woods made their Irish championship débuts. This list of 19 débutants did not set a record: 20 players made their débuts at the 1966 championship.
Eligibility	Under rules approved 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. For this event, all players except Stokes and Gallagher met the rating requirement. Stokes was the Chief Arbiter's nominee prior to the event, and Gallagher was added to even up the numbers after a late withdrawal prior to the event's start. Both had peak ratings close to qualifying (peak ICU 1887 in 2024 in each case).
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.
Grading prizes	Grading prizes were awarded based on how much a player's rating performance exceeded his or her rating (using FIDE ratings throughout). Atharva Paibir (175 points greater) won the first prize, and Yannick Woods (174 points greater) won the second (source: YouTube video of closing ceremony).
Discrepancies	The Livechesscloud, Lichess, and TWIC game files differ from each other. This version (v1.2) mostly adopts the Lichess version, up to the last move with a time stamp, but there were several games where one extra ply, that seemed plausible, was included.
Ratings	FIDE ratings are from the August 2024 list. ICU ratings are from the August 2024 list.
Versions	v0.1 (10 August 2024): first published version, including results up to the end of round 8 plus round 9 pairings. v1.0 (11 August 2024): added round 9 games, champion; corrected Eligibility entry in Sources and notes → Notes (last sentence in previous version referred to the 2023 championship) v1.1 (15 August 2024): changed scores of MacElligott - Gallagher (1.23) (previously stopped at 63. Kd2 (processed while game was still in progress)), Keenan - Daly (2.4), Gallagher - Geaney-O'Brien (2.16), and O'Cuilleanain - Hushpit (6.6) (adding one ply for each of the last three); updated "Games played" and "Games available" in Information → Basic data; added Concurrent events in Information → Basic data; added reference to Chess Mail tournament report in Information → Tournament report; updated Lichess pgn file to final version in Sources and notes → Sources; added Livechesscloud pgn files in Sources and notes → Sources; corrected link to Chess-Results (which previously pointed to the 2023 event); added TWIC, Web, Facebook, and YouTube items in Sources and notes → Sources; added Grading prizes item in Sources and notes → Notes; added Discrepancies item in Sources and notes → Notes; corrected broken file name for Terms and Conditions referred to twice on Sources and notes page; corrected year for entries above in this Versions section v1.2 (26 August 2024): changed several scores (some of which were listed above as implemented in v1.1, but were inadvertently omitted): 1.23 MacElligott - Gallagher +23 ply; 2.4 Keenan - Daly +1 ply; 2.12 Ivanov - Carroll -1 ply; 5.17 O'Rourke - O'Gorman -1 ply; 7.6 Hushpit - Crowley -1 ply; 7.14 Arun - Burke -1 ply; 8.18 Cafolla - Freeman -3 ply; and 9.16 O'Neill - Fox -4 ply, and modified Sources and notes → Notes → Discrepancies; added reference to Alexander Baburin's Sunday Independent report in Information → Tournament review and Sources and notes → Sources and added reference to annotation; added reference to Sligo Champion article in Sources and notes → Sources → Newspapers; added reference to Alexander Baburin's Facebook post on the end of Cafolla - Murchadha; added reference to ICU ratings report in Sources and notes → notes; corrected broken link to Lichess pgn file (missing suffix) in Sources and notes → Sources → Lichess; modified spacing in Pairings & results
Author	Seán Coffey