Leinster Championship 2006 information

Leinster Championship 2006

Information

Leinster Championship 2006
Dates	December 28-30, 2006
City	Dublin
Venue	An Óige, 61 Mountjoy St, Dublin 7
Chief Arbiter	Mick Germaine
Players participating	17
Games played	48
Competition format	6-round Swiss
Eligibility	Nominal rating requirement 2000+ but players within 100 points could play at their own option
Tie break	Unknown. Karl McPhillips won title on tie-break from Jan Votava.
Time control	2 hours per player for all moves
FIDE rated?	Yes (ID 9873)
Games available	46 of the 48 games, probably including 1 incomplete
Extra information	The Phibsboro C.C. web site has a collection of 26 photos of the prizegiving. Above: Karl McPhillips in play and (inset) receiving the trophy from Tony Gregory TD (from the Irish Chess Journal, February 2007)
Missing data	Remaining games; tie-break method
Concurrent events	Leinster Championship Major 2006, 1st Semyon Mkrtchyan (–) Leinster Championship Challengers 2006, 1st Yoel Ferrer (–) Leinster Championship Junior 2006, 1st Alisdair Walsh (Rathmines)
References	Sources and notes. If you have any other documents, reports, references, biographical information, annotations or (in particular) photos, please contact us.

See Mark Quinn's tournament report in the Irish Chess Journal, February 2007, pp. 9-14 and Pat Fitzsimons' tournament report on the ICU web site.

“This game was easily one of the most wonderful I have seen in quite a while. I simply loved the themes in this game and if anyone can get a hold of this game I suggest they look at it”—Colm Daly:
         Wall, Gavin – Quinn, Mark      ½-½

A brilliant finish:
         Palmer, Bernard – Quinn, Rory      1-0

White, forced to give up queen for rook plus knight, seems to get compensation but is eventually reeled in:
         O'Connell, Gerard – Quinn, Mark      0-1

Black presses for a grandmaster scalp, but eventually falls just short:
         Votava, Jan – Quinn, Rory      ½-½

White's king is in an uncomfortably airy position, and is finished off elegantly:
         Freeman, Gordon – Votava, Jan      0-1

A sensational game in which Black sacrifices a rook for an attack, but lets White escape with a draw:
         McPhillips, Karl – Quinn, Mark      ½-½

White looks as if he's being crushed but hangs in there:
         Cafolla, Peter – Palmer, Bernard      ½-½

An eventful game:
         McPhillips, Karl – Daly, Colm      0-1

White gives up a rook for a chance for a perpetual, Black fails to find a way out, and at the last White lets Black escape:
         Daly, Colm – Redmond, John P.      0-1

Nobody ever won by resigning: White recovers from three pawns down with no compensation:
         Fitzsimons, David – Redmond, John P.      1-0