The Malahide Tournament

sodacat11

I am surprised that there are not more entries yet for the upcoming Malahide tournament. It is always a very strong well organised event in a good venue.
https://www.icu.ie/events/911

UCDynamite

Hardly an ideal location. Id say it will fill up closer to the day.

cdeb

I'd say people are entering through the Malahide website as well. Those people wouldn't necessarily be on the ICU list

Retd.LoyolaCpt

I've requested the full list of entries which I should be able to upload once I get them on Sunday night.

Eugene Donohoe

Retd.LoyolaCpt wrote: »

I've requested the full list of entries which I should be able to upload once I get them on Sunday night.

That's very helpful of you. Thanks. Looking forward to seeing the full list. It's always such a good and well run tournament.

Retd.LoyolaCpt

70 entries in all now - site updated.

Tonight is the discount deadline for those planning on playing who'd like to pay a little less.

Rathminor

Retd.LoyolaCpt wrote: »

70 entries in all now - site updated.

Tonight is the discount deadline for those planning on playing who'd like to pay a little less.

Can you clarify - the flyer attached to the calendar on the ICU website says the discounted entry is available until the 2nd May?

Rathminor

Can somebody please clarify on the venue. The map attached to the ICU calendar shows a location that looks closer to Santry village than the airport.
Is the competition taking place in the airport complex or a couple of kilometers away?

Retd.LoyolaCpt

Rathminor wrote: »

Can somebody please clarify on the venue. The map attached to the ICU calendar shows a location that looks closer to Santry village than the airport.
Is the competition taking place in the airport complex or a couple of kilometers away?

Fixed now

Retd.LoyolaCpt

Rathminor wrote: »

Can you clarify - the flyer attached to the calendar on the ICU website says the discounted entry is available until the 2nd May?

My mistake - it is the 2nd (tomorrow). Entry rates have not been raised. I misremembered the flyer

sodacat11

There is a very healthy entry for the tournament now but one thing that baffles me is the players being listed with their ICU ratings when it is a FIDE rated event. Surely FIDE ratings should be used for seeding etc?

Tim Harding

sodacat11 wrote: »

There is a very healthy entry for the tournament now but one thing that baffles me is the players being listed with their ICU ratings when it is a FIDE rated event. Surely FIDE ratings should be used for seeding etc?

I think the entry system on ICU.ie automatically inserts ICU ratings but it should be changed to FIDE when seedings are done, as indeed occurred with our senior tournament in January.

The May FIDE ratings are up now but the last round of the Leinster Leagues will only be included for the June list.

sodacat11

In the flyer for the Malahide Tournament 'OVER 1800' is actually underlined as being the rating requirement for the Senior section yet a 1725 and a 1756 have been admitted. What is the point of making rules if they are going to be so easily discarded?Why can't the two players in question just play in the section for which they are actually eligible?

cdeb

It may be that they selected to play the top section when entering, and the controllers will reallocate them in due course

sodacat11

cdeb wrote: »

It may be that they selected to play the top section when entering, and the controllers will reallocate them in due course

I hope you are right. I was just wondering what the Advertising Standards Authority would make of the practice we often see at Irish chess tournaments of advertising a tournament as being one thing (i.e within certain rating bands) and then reneging on their promise and delivering something else after accepting payments. Normally if you pay for a product or service you are legally entitled to get what was advertised.

Tim Harding

sodacat11 wrote: »

I hope you are right. I was just wondering what the Advertising Standards Authority would make of the practice we often see at Irish chess tournaments of advertising a tournament as being one thing (i.e within certain rating bands) and then reneging on their promise and delivering something else after accepting payments. Normally if you pay for a product or service you are legally entitled to get what was advertised.

Where would we be without you as our constant watchdog, sodacat?

You have become the Vincent Browne of Irish chess! Keep it up!

sodacat11

Tim Harding wrote: »

Where would we be without you as our constant watchdog, sodacat?

You have become the Vincent Browne of Irish chess! Keep it up!

I will keep up my campaign until tournaments stop ignoring their own rating requirements and until the silly "within 50 or 100 point" nonsense is scrapped.

sodacat11

Tim Harding wrote: »

I think the entry system on ICU.ie automatically inserts ICU ratings but it should be changed to FIDE when seedings are done, as indeed occurred with our senior tournament in January.t.

One would imagine that what you say would be done but what has actually happened with the seedings and listings is that the HIGHER of the two ratings (ICU or FIDE) is being used for each player. The logic of this completely escapes me but then again so does making five players take a bye to facilitate the entry of a player who isn't even eligible to play.

UCDynamite

I can see that a draw has been made on the Malahide website. Does anyone know if this is the final draw for the first round and now late entries will be paired together?

Retd.LoyolaCpt

Can an admin combine these two threads?
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057868376

Entries are still being taken on the Malahide site and will be taken on the day as usual. So, there are no Byes yet