Target Recruitment Masters 2001 sources

Target Recruitment Masters 2001

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Sources and notes

Sources
TWIC	TWIC 335 (92 games, plus summary report)
ICU web site	Tournament archive (totals and places) Games archive (92 games)
Ulster Chess Chronicle	Target Recuitment Masters 2001 (final scores and places) bel2001.pgn (via the Wayback Machine) (games, including three showing loss on time and 11 more showing incomplete game) (via the Wayback Machine) (link via David McAlister) Target Recruitment Open 2001 (via the Wayback Machine) (games, photographs) (link via David McAlister)
David McAlister	Entries (via email)
Newspapers	Cork Examiner: April 21, 2001 p. 125 (Weekend p. 31) Sunday Independent: April 8, 2001 p. 26

Notes
Ratings	FIDE ratings, titles, and nationalities are from the January 2001 list BCF ratings are from the July 2000 list, via the ECF grading database (Lalić, Cooper, Jowett, McDonnell, Tello, McKeown)
Disambiguation	The original TWIC 335 tournament summary gave John Cooper, ENG, rated 1936, as finishing joint 10th-15th, but the associated TWIC 335 games file gave the player as "Cooper,J", rated 2341, matching the Welsh IM John Grantley Cooper, b. 1954, FIDE ID 1800027. The latter was the only J. Cooper in the January 2001 FIDE list. Databases have followed the game file attribution. David McAlister recalled with certainty that the player was not the Welsh IM, and with reasonable confidence that he came from Lancashire. He provided a list of entrants that listed club as Lytham ENG. Since "John G. Cooper", ENG, FIDE ID 416096, now of Lytham St. Anne's, was rated 167 BCF in July 2000, the last BCF list before this event, and that maps to 1936, as given in the entrants file, via the "multiply by 8 and add 600" rule, it seems this must be the same player. David also provided a photo of Cooper and Stephen Scannell analysing their last-round game.
Clubs	Club affiliations are from the following sources: Cooper: list of entrants file combined with his current ECF grading record Ellison: RIP Derek George Ellison, Stewart Reuben, English Chess Federation web pages, June 9, 2015 (via the Wayback Machine), combined with the list of entrants Others: list of entrants
Versions	v1.0 (20 Feb 2017): first published version v1.1 (6 Oct 2022): corrected identification of John Cooper to John G. Cooper (ENG, b. 1942, FIDE ID 416096) throughout, instead of the Welsh IM John [Grantley] Cooper (b. 1954, FIDE ID 1800027, FIDE rating 2341), as previously given, and added related Disambiguation entry in Sources and notes → Notes; modified two games to show loss on time and 11 more to show incomplete game, based on game collection giving this information (see Sources and notes → Sources → Web); added (very) light notes to Cooper - S. Gillen, round 1, Nižetić - Teller, round 5 and Clarke - Daly, round 6, and added to Annotations index; added photo of Cooper - Scannell post mortem in playable game; added extracts of Alexander Baburin's annotation of Allen - Baburin, round 5, in playable game; changed "Tiebreak" to "None" in Information → Basic data; added "Prizes" and "Photos" entries in Information → Basic data; changed dead links to NI Chess blog to successor links to Ulster Chess Chronicle in Information → Basic data → Concurrent events; corrected link to ICU games archive in Sources and notes → Sources → ICU web site (previous version pointed to 2011); added link to Ulster Chess Chronicle table in Sources and notes → Sources; added clubs for Ulster players and for Cooper and Ellison in Pairings & results and in playable game files; added BCF ratings for all but two England-based players; modified format to show direct link to "Sources and notes" page from every page, rather than having to go via Information → Basic data; added _tables file in directory; added XML directory and file; changed http to https throughout; added David McAlister as contributor in Sources and notes → Notes → Contributors; added Author entry in Sources and notes → Notes
Contributors	David McAlister; Seán Coffey
Author	Seán Coffey