Irish Women's Championship 2023 sources

Irish Women's Championship 2023

Sources and notes

Sources
Flyer	Flyer (1-page pdf)
ICU web site	Announcement, April 3, 2023 (first of seven) Event page Ratings report
FIDE	Tournament ID 338125
Lichess	The Irish Women's Championship 2023 (live games) (including all 30 games) (pgn file)
Chess-Results.com	Pairings & results
Newspapers	Sunday Independent (Alexander Baburin) August 27, 2023 p. 27 (summary results)
Facebook	Post, August 20, 2023, Irish Chess Union Facebook page (announcing final round) Post, August 20, 2023, Irish Chess Union Facebook page (result, with photo of champion), ICU Facebook web page
Web	Women's Championship to be played this weekend (archived August 18) Ukrainian refugee wins Women's Championship (archived August 23), and Gora is Women's champion as Ukrainian ineligible (archived August 25), Tim Harding, Chess Mail web site, August 2023 (all via the Wayback Machine) Irish Chess Championship 2023 thread, August 20, 2023 onwards (discussion of results, eligibility, and award of title)

Notes
Key	In "Pairings & results", "x-ch" denotes former Irish Women's Champions "ol" denotes members of the previous Women's Olympiad team (Chennai 2022)
Title	Diana Mats transferred to IRL registration from UKR before the championship started. (It seems that she entered while the transfer was still pending.) Under the rules as announced on the flyer, she was eligible for the title of Irish Women's Champion. However, the Tournament Director announced before the event that she was not eligible for the title, and this seems to have been accepted by all participants. So Antonina Góra, as the highest placed IRL-registered player, other than Mats, was awarded the title.
Ratings	FIDE ratings are from the August 2023 list. ICU ratings are from the July 2023 list.
Versions	v1.0 (27 Sep 2023): first published version. v1.1 (7 Oct 2023): corrected links to download pgn from playable games; added O'Gorman - Gajcin, round 4, to list of Annotations
Contributors	Seán Coffey