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Round 6
This round featured some critical and interesting games. Incredibly Sam Collins once again escaped from a lost position. The game started out with him achieving a comfortable position from the opening and a workable advantage. However as the game drifted into an endgame phase he again found himself gradually but completely out-played, only then to get a reprieve when Phillip Short failed to take his chances. The other big game saw Mel O Cinneide upset John Joyce's tournament after he outplayed him in a comfortable and impressive fashion and put himself very much back in contention.
Lower down the table there was a fine win by the late Cormac Brady who played a fine game that showed his talent for the initiative was not confined to just kingside attacks. Here he showed great control of the initiative and endgame technique in equal measure. Stephen Brady also played perhaps his best game from the tournament and showed that although clearly below par generally when on top off his game he outclassed most of the field by some distance. The win by Brian Fitzpatrick against Brian Beckett had some interesting moments but it appeared that the later failed to take his chances and allowed his position to get worse the further into the endgame he went. The rest of the drawn games from this round were of some interest too. Tony Fox as usual drew when he looked to be well on top against Paul Dempsey. Bernard Plamer made a mess of the opening in his game but after getting a difficult position still ended up with a very nice endgame which he looked all set to convert to a win when he oddly appeared to just give up and couldn't be bothered with. The final position looks winning to me.
| Clarke,Tom |
0-1 |
Brady,Cormac |
| Dempsey,Paul |
½-½ |
Fox,Tony |
| Fitzpatrick,Brian |
1-0 |
Beckett,Brian |
| Jeffares,Simon |
½-½ |
Scannell,Stephen |
| Jessel,Stephen |
1-0 |
Keogh,Eamon |
| O' Cinneide,Mel |
1-0 |
Joyce,John |
| O'Connell,Gerry |
0-1 |
Brady,Stephen |
| Palmer,Bernard |
½-½ |
Duffy,Seamus |
| Short,Philip |
½-½ |
Collins,Sam |
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