Chess IV's and The 2013 Irish Chess Championships

brilliantboy

RQ_ennis_chess wrote: »

No late entries as far as I can tell. The draw will probably look something like the sample one that Colm Daly has on the irishchesschampionships.com site. Really looking forward to this event now, though a bit apprehensive at the same time. Its a commitment in terms of time and effort so just hoping I wont bomb.

Don't worry Rory, Colm has the draw for round 2 up http://www.irishchesschampionships.com/pairings-and-results.html
No upsets in round 1, you're off to a flying start

Sparks

The actual pairings are now up on ulchess:

Table|White|||Score|Black|||Score
1|1|FM|Daly, Colm|0|11||Quinn, Ciaran|0
2|12||Fox, Anthony|0|2|FM|Fitzsimons, David|0
3|3|FM|Short, Philip M|0|13|CM|MacElligott, Gerard|0
4|14||Freeman, Gordon|0|4|IM|Orr, Mark J L|0
5|5||O’Cinneide, Mel|0|15||Hughes, John L|0
6|16||O’Rourke, Ray|0|6||Redmond, John P.|0
7|7||O’Connor, Jonathan|0|17||Crichton, Martin|0
8|18||Cormican, John|0|8||Walsh, Paul|0
9|9||Delaney, Killian|0|19||O`Grady, Martin|0
10|20||Twomey, Pat|0|10||Quinn, Rory|0

EnPassant

The Irish Women's Championship has already started - it's a 6-player all-play-all with Gearóidín Uí Laighleis and Diana Mirza the favourites - they will be playing in the last round.

Sparks

Been checking ulchess.com all night for any results or games allright I figured if they could broadcast the top eight tables in the main championships, they could use the kit to do the same for the women's championships...

EnPassant

Sparks wrote: »

Been checking ulchess.com all night for any results or games allright I figured if they could broadcast the top eight tables in the main championships, they could use the kit to do the same for the women's championships...

Today's games were played in a different building - the electronic boards are all set up and tested in the venue which will be used from tomorrow on.

brilliantboy

Live Games are here: http://icu.ie/misc/games/live/Irish%20Championships%202013/tfd.htm

Not so sure about Colm's choice of opening. That bishop is sure to be missed.
But then he is double my rating and then some, so perhaps he knows what he's doing

Sparks

I'd imagine Ciaran does too

In fact, looking at what stockfish thinks of it so far, it looked to be going Ciaran's way up to move 36....



It doesn't think much of Ciaran's castling at move 12 mind you, and then it thinks Colm missed a trick with 13. h3 (it much prefers d5 at that stage). But the game's not over yet, and they're several moves past move 36 by now...

Sparks

And Ciaran won...

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Results so far...

Table|White|||Score|Black|||Score
1|1|FM|Daly, Colm|0|11||Quinn, Ciaran|1
2|12||Fox, Anthony|0|2|FM|Fitzsimons, David|1
3|3|FM|Short, Philip M|1|13|CM|MacElligott, Gerard|0
4|14||Freeman, Gordon|½|4|IM|Orr, Mark J L|½
5|5||O’Cinneide, Mel|½|15||Hughes, John L|½
6|16||O’Rourke, Ray|0|6||Redmond, John P.|1
7|7||O’Connor, Jonathan|½|17||Crichton, Martin|½
8|18||Cormican, John|0|8||Walsh, Paul|1
9|9||Delaney, Killian|0|19||O`Grady, Martin|0
10|20||Twomey, Pat|0|10||Quinn, Rory|0

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Round 2's pairings are up. From the UL chess site:

Irish Championships 2013 Round 2

Table|White||Score|Black||Score|Result|
1|FM|Fitzsimons, David|1||Walsh, Paul|1||
2||Quinn, Rory|1|FM|Short, Philip M|1||
3||Redmond, John P.|1||Delaney, Killian|1||
4||Quinn, Ciaran|1||O’Cinneide, Mel|0.5||
5|IM|Orr, Mark J L|0.5||O’Connor, Jonathan|0.5||
6||Hughes, John L|0.5||Freeman, Gordon|0.5||
7||Crichton, Martin|0.5|FM|Daly, Colm|0||
8||O`Grady, Martin|0||Fox, Anthony|0||
9|CM|MacElligott, Gerard|0||Twomey, Pat|0||
10||O`Flaherty, Kevin|0||O’Rourke, Ray|0||
Cormican, John|0||0.5 forf.|

Sparks

Sparks wrote: »

But the game's not over yet, and they're several moves past move 36 by now...

The full stockfish analysis of that game:







Stockfish seems to think it was actually salvagable for Colm up to 40.Nc4, but after that, not so much.

EnPassant

I thought I would have an ok position after 13 d5 Bb4 - I didn't see the idea of white playing Ne4 with the idea of Qxd7 and a knight fork on f6.

I also completely forgot about the extra 30 minutes after move 40 - it was great to suddenly see my time go from 2 minutes to 32 minutes.

It's a great venue for the tournament - plenty space, free coffee, good weather ...

Sparks

It didn't look too bad even if stockfish didn't like that move Ciaran, it still thinks you pretty much had the game consistently after that point.

brilliantboy

Rory has Philip Short in a very difficult position. I think it's only a matter of time.
And it looks like the Martin Crichton - Colm Daly board may have malfunctioned?

btw nice analysis Sparks, certainly a notch above a bog standard game score

Sparks

Thanks BB, I've been tweaking scid-vs-pc's LaTeX output, that graph's about the most obvious change. I'm going to try to do those for each game, but I'm having some minor pc problems at the moment.

Sparks

Either today's games have been remarkable or something's gone awry with the live boards
Mad times on some of the games - Philip Short on 6 minutes to Rory Quinn's 1hr 10 at move 19? And some matches only on move 3 while others are on move 24.

But Freeman's game against Hughes looks like it ended on a painful blunder...

brilliantboy

Well Short was in a fairly dangerous position from the get-go so I can understand him taking his time.
Rory now on 2/2 will I'm sure be thinking "why not me?"

And re the Hughes-Freeman game, it's always kind of nice to see even strong players can be prone to a moment of madness

Sparks

brilliantboy wrote: »

Well Short was in a fairly dangerous position from the get-go so I can understand him taking his time.

It looks like he took too much though

And re the Hughes-Freeman game, it's always kind of nice to see even strong players can be prone to a moment of madness

True. I have this printout I keep handy here showing that kind of thing being done by people like Karpov, Fischer, Petrosian and Bronstein, just for morale when I make a headbanger of a blunder. I tend to reread it a bit too often mind...

Sparks

Crichton-Daly ended after nine moves from a hardly-lost postion without a single pawn or piece off the board? What's going on down there today?

Banrion Fichille

2013 Irish Women's Chess Championship results so far for those of you requesting it.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=557908420918072&set=a.433223740053208.90312.424215587620690&type=1&theater

RQ_ennis_chess

Sparks wrote: »

Crichton-Daly ended after nine moves from a hardly-lost postion without a single pawn or piece off the board? What's going on down there today?

I think Crichton-Daly was the only board on which there were broadcast problems. I didnt see much of the game so cant really comment but at a glance it looked quite messy, Colm eventually won. Not sure what happened to Gordon in his game, he must have just had a blindspot.

Sparks

Finally got the stockfish runs on all of yesterday's games.
Table 1:

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Table 2:

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Table 3:

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Table 4:

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Table 5:



Pretty solid play there from both sides!

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Table 6:

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Table 7:

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Table 8:

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Table 9:



An agreed draw?

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Table 10:

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Hm. IRLChess's pgn file was incomplete (problems with the live boards?), redoing some games now with ULChess's pgn...

Sparks

Round 3 pairings up on the ULChess site...

Table|White|||Score|Black|||Score
1|6||Redmond, John P.|2|2|FM|Fitzsimons, David|2
2|15||Hughes, John L|1.5|10||Quinn, Rory|2
3|5||O’Cinneide, Mel|1.5|4|IM|Orr, Mark J L|1.5
4|1|FM|Daly, Colm|1|12||Fox, Anthony|1
5|3|FM|Short, Philip M|1|11||Quinn, Ciaran|1
6|8||Walsh, Paul|1|14|CM|MacElligott, Gerard|1
7|9||Delaney, Killian|1|16||O’Rourke, Ray|1
8|7||O’Connor, Jonathan|0.5|17||Cormican, John|0.5
9|13||Freeman, Gordon|0.5|18||Crichton, Martin|0.5
10|19||O`Grady, Martin|0|21||O`Flaherty, Kevin|0
0||20||Twomey, Pat|0|||||| 0.5 forf.

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Table 9:

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Table 10 proper:

bigtoe7

what happened in the game between martin critchton and colm daly ? why did martin resign after just 9 moves ?!

Sparks

bigtoe7 wrote: »

what happened in the game between martin critchton and colm daly ? why did martin resign after just 9 moves ?!

It looks like the liveboard broadcast was screwed up. Here's the game's quick stockfish run:

Sparks

The AM tournament livegames are here.

Sparks

Finished stockfish runs for tables 1-4 in round two.

Table 1: David Fitzsimons -v- Paul Walsh (1-0)









Table 2: Rory Quinn -v- Philip Short (1-0)






Table 3: John Redmond -v- Killian Delaney (1-0)







Table 4: Ciaran Quinn -v- Mel O'Cinneide (0-1)










The other four tables' games (from the liveboard broadcast) are finishing their stockfish runs at the moment.

Sparks

And the other four tables:

Table 5: Mark Orr -v- Johnathon O'Connor (1-0)







Table 6: John Huges -v- Gordon Freeman





Table 7: Martin Crichton -v- Colm Daly (0-1)







Table 8: Martin O'Grady -v- Anthony Fox (0-1)

Sparks

And Round 3 is away... live games [url=http://icu.ie/misc/games/live/Irish Championships 2013/tfd.htm
]here[/url]. Looks like not all the bugs are worked out of the liveboards yet though, there aren't any moves in from table 2 yet. There are entries for tables 9 and 10 though - did someone find two extra DGT boards down the back of their couch?

Sparks

bigtoe7 wrote: »

sam collins has decided to play in e2-e4 five round open competition in sunnigdale in UK rather to play in irish championship in same weekend.

BTW, Sam did reasonably well in e2e4, coming in fourth overall with 3.5/5:
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/sunningdale/Jul2013/Open/SMWSite/players/p002.html

cdeb

2395 performance rating will probably be a bit of a disappointment though.

Sparks

Would the one loss being to a GM not be the bigger disappointment to him? I would have thought a GM scalp was a big reason for him to go to e2e4?

cdeb

Well the one is a symptom of the other. But I'm sure he'd have taken 4/4 and a loss against a GM if it meant a couple more rating points. 2500 is the all-important barrier (plus a final norm). Who the results come against doesn't really matter. He's played and beaten GMs before; of itself, it's probably no different to me beating a 1700.

Sparks

Round 4's pairings are up on the ULChess website:

Table|White|||Score|Black|||Score
1|10||Quinn, Rory|3|6||Redmond, John P.|2.5|
2|2|FM|Fitzsimons, David|2.5|9||Delaney, Killian|2|
3|4|IM|Orr, Mark J L|2|1|FM|Daly, Colm|2|
4|8||Walsh, Paul|1.5|5||O’Cinneide, Mel|2|
5|14|CM|MacElligott, Gerard|1.5|7||O’Connor, Jonathan|1.5|
6|11||Quinn, Ciaran|1.5|15||Hughes, John L|1.5|
7|18||Crichton, Martin|1|3|FM|Short, Philip M|1.5|
8|12||Fox, Anthony|1|13||Freeman, Gordon|1|
9|16||O’Rourke, Ray|1|20||Twomey, Pat|0.5|
10|17||Cormican, John|0.5|19||O`Grady, Martin|0|
0|21||O`Flaherty, Kevin|1| 0 forf.

cdeb

Hold on - since when is Gerry McElligott a CM?!

Has my unbeaten record against titled players (and 17-year unbeaten record against future titled players) just grown?

bigtoe7

some of the games and results don't make sense here . look at ray orourke game against killian delaney's . black's 38 move and rest of moves after that are all illegal. how did philip foenander lose to cecil sloan from a clear winning psoition ?

EnPassant

bigtoe7 wrote: »

some of the games and results don't make sense here . look at ray orourke game against killian delaney's . black's 38 move and rest of moves after that are all illegal. how did philip foenander lose to cecil sloan from a clear winning psoition ?

Ray resigned at move 38 - if the players move the pieces after the end of the game then this is picked up by the system.

Sparks

Stockfish runs for most of Round 3 (less Tables 2, 9 and 10 which didn't go up on the liveboards):

Table 1: Redmond -v- Fitzsimons (½-½)





Table 3: O'Cinneide -v- Orr (½-½)



Table 4: Daly -v- Fox (1-0)