2009 Irish Chess Championships

This website is dedicated to having some coverage of the Irish Open Chess Championships in order to promote the event and inform the chess public about proceedings. A list of PARTICIPANTS is now available.

There is much of interest to examine in the days following the event, with plenty of multimedia coverage with as usual, the caveat of - best viewed with broadband/fast internet connection , be patient and wait for the clips to load. But for now, there is the standings after eight rounds and also a full crosstable and list of participants available now.

Update - Sunday Night

Some interesting results from the last round. Mark Quinn and Valeri Atlas both drew their games against John Redmond and David Fitzsimons respectively. Thus with 6.5 points they shared second and third place/prize. David Fitzsimons was 4th and won the best young player prize while Stephen Brady was 5th. Most of the games are now available to either download [zipped file] or replay round by round below.

Rd1 Rd2 Rd3 Rd4 Rd5 Rd6 Rd7 Rd8 Rd9

Special thanks to Peter Doyle and Nichola Benson for putting the games into a Chessbase file.

Update - Sunday Morning

A quick draw has been agreed between Colm Daly and Phillip Short in the last round, thus Colm Daly wins the tournament outright with 7.5 and is Irish Champion again for the fourth time. Previous wins being 1998 [8.5/9] 1999 [7/9] 2005 [8/9] and in 1996 [6.5/9] also a joint win of the tournament [but not the title of Irish Champion, which is shared if there are two winners, but some sort of tie break system applies when there are more than two winners] .

A fight for second place is in progress, with Mark Quinn and Valeri Atlas battling it out for second place. Both players are Black against John Redmond and David Fitzsimons respectively. In the coming days there will be a lot of updates and analysis of the games and reports of more content from each round. It is hoped that the games will be made available to the public, as there were many interesting clashes from many of the players throughout the event.

Standings- After 8 Rounds

Place Name                Feder Rtg  Loc  Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.

  1   Daly, Colm                2308 2264 7        34.5  41.5   38.0
 2-3  Atlas, Valeri             2428 2489 6        34.0  44.5   35.5
      Quinn, Mark               2404 2340 6        34.0  43.5   34.0
  4   Fitzsimons, David         2167 2183 5.5      34.5  45.0   30.0
  5   Brady, Stephen            2384 2363 5        35.5  46.0   30.5
6-13  Delaney, John             2227 2236 4.5      32.5  42.5   27.5
      Short, Philip             2309 2265 4.5      32.0  42.0   27.0
      Redmond, John P.          2193 2124 4.5      31.5  40.5   26.0
      Benson, Oisin P.          1967 1999 4.5      30.5  40.5   25.0
      Hegarty, Sarah            2084 1812 4.5      30.0  38.0   25.0
      Berney, Mark                   1839 4.5      29.5  39.5   24.5
      Fox, Anthony              2094 2096 4.5      29.5  38.0   27.0
      Quinn, Ciaran             2133 1865 4.5      27.0  34.5   23.0
14-18 O'Connell, Gerard         2121 2119 4        31.0  40.0   25.5
      MacElligott, Gerard       2115 1963 4        29.0  36.0   23.0
      Porter, Liam              1900 1882 4        26.0  31.5   19.0
      Moran, Stephen            2004 2004 4        25.0  30.5   18.5
      Murray, David B.          1991 2032 4        23.5  30.5   17.0
19-21 Fairbairn, Stephen        2073      3.5      27.5  36.0   20.0
      Cafolla, Peter            2046 2036 3.5      25.5  33.5   17.5
      Duffy, Seamus             2078 1891 3.5      25.0  30.5   17.5
22-24 Hayes, Peter J.           1966 1966 3        28.0  35.5   17.5
      Boyle, Bernard            1936 1774 3        25.5  31.0   15.0
      Babei, Angelica           2019      3        23.5  29.0   14.0
25-26 Loughran, John            1939 1675 2.5      27.0  34.0   17.5
      Doyle, Hugh               1910 1919 2.5      26.0  31.5   14.5
27-28 Healy, John               1860      1.5      24.5  34.0    5.0
      Keogh, Eamon              2092 1907 1.5       3.5   3.5    2.0
 29   O'Leary, Matt             2053 1737 1        19.5  26.5    5.0
 30   Daly, Justin              2003 1939 0         5.5   5.5    0.0