Irish Open 2013

[Ingo_Zachos]

Today the Irish Open 2013 started in Limerick:

Here are the results of the masters:
http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje_wa ... 13/f_5329/

Seniors :
http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje_wa ... 13/f_5331/

Intermediates:
http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje_wa ... 13/f_5330/

I lost both games to Shane in round one. First one as I did not know any defense to 1.9-13 23-18, 2. 6-9, and the 2nd game due to very bad endgame play.


Greetinx from rainy Limerick,


Ingo Zachos

[MostFamousDane]

Any chance of the games being recorded/collected or will the games be lost as per usual ?

[Ingo_Zachos]

The same precedure as every year Sune.

The players record their games, but they are not collected...

[Ingo_Zachos]

The school Juniors under 14 started today, and Shane fell into a shot missing to win both Single Corner games against Colin Young.

Tomorrow he will face the challehnge of O'Driscoll.

[Ingo_Zachos]

Yesterday the IDA held its GA at the Irish Open in Limerick.

Myles Hannigan was voted in as new IDA president.
Sean Phillips announced the new website of the IDA:
http://www.irishdraughtsassociation.com/

And after a longer discussion it was decided that the IO will still be held at the traditional date, but now lasting only 3 days (7 rounds).

The juniors finished and among the spectators was former World Champion Patricia Breen who came to watch the games of her nephew Sean in the Juniors.

[Hugh Devlin]

Ingo, Many thanks and great job.

Congratulations to Myles Hannigan on his election as the new IDA President. A positive move. Also a bit of history - the first player from Northern Ireland to be elected President of the IDA.

[Alex_Moiseyev]

And after a longer discussion it was decided that the IO will still be held at the traditional date, but now lasting only 3 days (7 rounds).

Pity. I played in Irish Open 2007 with 10 rounds in Master Section. I think overall in all Divisions we had more than 40 players.

[Ingo_Zachos]

Here are the results of résults of the Irish Junios:

Courtsey by the referee John Alfred


Irish Draughts u-14, 2013-Oct-27
Cross Table

No Name Age Total 1 2 3 4 5 6

1 Carr, David 12 5 15:W 5:W 11:W 2:L 6:W 4:W
2 Logan, Aine 10 4.5 16:W 8:W 4:W 1:W 5:D 3:L
3 Cranny, Marie 07 4.5 21:W 14:D 10:L 9:W 12:W 2:W
4 Cranny, James 08 4 12:W 6:W 2:L 11:W 8:W 1:L
5 Gallagher, Maire 09 4 19:W 1:L 18:W 10:W 2:D 8:D
6 Kelly, Padraic 10 4 17:W 4:L 13:W 16:W 1:L 10:W
7 Kelly, Lorcan 06 4 10:L 12:D 15:D 18:W 13:W 11:W
8 Carr, Isabel 11 3.5 20:W 2:L 14:W 19:W 4:L 5:D
9 Magan, Rial 11 3.5 13:W 17:L 16:D 3:L 21:W 14:W
10 Breen, Sean 07 3 7:W 11:L 3:W 5:L 19:W 6:L
11 Gallagher, Sean 12 3 18:W 10:W 1:L 4:L 17:W 7:L
12 Mullane, Ronan 11 3 4:L 7:D 20:W 14:W 3:L 17:D
13 Comer, Suzie 10 3 9:L 15:W 6:L 21:W 7:L 18:W
14 Walshe, Gemma 10 2.5 0:W 3:D 8:L 12:L 16:W 9:L
15 Kirby, Sallyann 11 2.5 1:L 13:L 7:D 17:L 0:W 19:W
16 Comer, Leisha 07 2.5 2:L 21:W 9:D 6:L 14:L 0:W
17 Carr, William 07 2.5 6:L 9:W 19:L 15:W 11:L 12:D
18 Walshe, Conor 09 2 11:L 0:W 5:L 7:L 20:W 13:L
19 Murphy-Ffrench, Conor 11 2 5:L 20:W 17:W 8:L 10:L 15:L
20 Kirby, Ella 08 2 8:L 19:L 12:L 0:W 18:L 21:W
21 Mullane, Orla 09 1 3:L 16:L 0:W 13:L 9:L 20

[Ingo_Zachos]

The intermediates finished yersterday:

http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje_wa ... ngs&7.html


Congratulation to Michael Martin who won ahead of Rory Phelan.

a few pictures are available at Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/ingo.zachos/me ... 407&type=3

[Ingo_Zachos]

The masters just finished:

http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje_wa ... ngs&8.html


GM Shane McCosker won ahead of the very strong Sean O`Driscoll and Myles Hannigan, who recovred from a bad start, defeating Colin Young to take the bronce medal.

The seniors are still playing, so the IO have not yet finished.

[Ingo_Zachos]

Fianally, Joe Maguire won the Seniors ahead of Tommy Canning, who lost the title by losing the Wilderness.
Third place went to Sean Phillips.

http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje_wa ... ngs&9.html

[sergio]

Congratulations to Shane on his victory!

Who will be declared European Champion 2013?

I noticed Danny Oliphant has 54 points without winnng a competition while Shane McCosker has 50 points and he won two big competitions (British Open and Irish Open). I wonder, if there is anything wrong in thinking that the regulations of European Cup 2013 are not fair.

In my opinion, Shane should be declared European Champion.

Best reagards
Sergio Scarpetta

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Congratulations to Shane on his victory!

Who will be declared European Champion 2013?

I noticed Danny Oliphant has 54 points without winnng a competition while Shane McCosker has 50 points and he won two big competitions (British Open and Irish Open). I wonder, if there is anything wrong in thinking that the regulations of European Cup 2013 are not fair.

In my opinion, Shane should be declared European Champion.

Best reagards
Sergio Scarpetta

CUP is CUP, Danny probably attended more events ? If so, this make sense to me. In other hands, I agree with Sergio - winning major events must be awarded with more points.

Do we have European Checkers Federation ? If so - they should take care of this.

[Ingo_Zachos]

Congratulations to Shane on his victory!

Who will be declared European Champion 2013?

I noticed Danny Oliphant has 54 points without winnng a competition while Shane McCosker has 50 points and he won two big competitions (British Open and Irish Open). I wonder, if there is anything wrong in thinking that the regulations of European Cup 2013 are not fair.

In my opinion, Shane should be declared European Champion.


Best reagards
Sergio Scarpetta

Can you plz give me the standings and how they are calculated?

It seems that attandance beat performance if that is true.

Shane won two big majors. The other one that did that is you, Sergio. But the QT is not counted, so Shane should be ahead.

Maybe a rule should be applied that the European Champion title may only be given to a winner of the events and among them to the best on points.

However, Danny is a dilligent player that deserves special recognition for his dedication to the game and his consistance. No other player tavelled like him in Europe to play the draughts:

Germany, Denmark, Ireland, France (WMSG) etc. and all of them more then once!


Maybe he should be declared European Cup winner (best on points) and Shane European Champion 2013 (won most majors).


Greetinx from cold Limerick,

Ingo

[sergio]

Can you plz give me the standings and how they are calculated?

------------------- 1st--2nd-- 3rd-- 4th-- 5th---6th---7th--8th---9th--10th-----------total------standings
Shane McCosker--25----------------------------------------------------- 25-------------50-------2nd
Francis McNally---21----------------------------------------------------------------------21-------9th
Colin Young-------18----------------------------------------------------------------------18-------19th
Sergio Scarpetta-------25-----------------------------------------------------------------25--------7th
Michele Borghetti------21-----------------------------------------------------------------21-------12th
Claudio Ciampi---------18------------------------------------25--------------------------43--------4th
Filip Kareta------------------25-------------------------------18--------------------------43--------4th
Liam Stephens--------------21------------------------------------------------------------21--------12th
Jaroslav Tichy---------------21------------------------------------------------------------21-------12th
Valery Grebenkin-------------------25-----------------------------------------------------25--------7th
Denis Shatalin----------------------21-----------------------------------------------------21-------12th
Sergei Martinenko-----------------18-----------------------------------------------------18-------19th
Tom Watson-----------------------------25------------------------------------------------25--------7th
Sean McElkenny--------------------------21-----------------------------------------------21--------12th
Danny Oliphant---------------------------18----18----18---------------------------------54---------1st
Hugh Devlin--------------------------------------25----------------------------------------25--------7th
Myles Hannigan----------------------------------21-------------------------18------------39--------6th
Lindus Edwards----------------------------------------25----------------------------------25--------7th
Tony Boyle----------------------------------------------21----------------------------------21--------12th
Igor Martynov--------------------------------------------------21-----25------------------- 46--------3rd
Yury Gaisenblas--------------------------------------------------------21-------------------21--------12th
Ingo Zachos-------------------------------------------------------------18-------------------18--------19th
O'Driscoll, Sean---------------------------------------------------------------21-------------21--------12th

legend:
1st = British Open
2nd = Italian Open
3rd = Danish Open
4th = Ukrainian Open
5th = Scottish Open
6th = Northern Irish Open
7th = 7. Welsh Open
8th = Old English Club
9th = German Open
10th = Irish Open

In the official document you can read as following:

REGULATIONS of European Cup 2013 in Checkers.
........
7. Overall European Cup standings.
Players get points in each stage of the European Cup according taken places in the following order:

Taken place Points
1--------------25
2--------------21
3--------------18
4--------------15
5--------------14
6--------------13
7--------------11
8--------------10
9---------------9
10--------------8
11--------------6
12--------------5
13--------------3
14--------------2
15--------------1

3 best results shown in stages go into the overall European Cup standings.



As Alex Said Danny took part in three competitions, only one more than Shane.