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© Chess Mail Ltd.
Last modified:
15 March 2008
After nearly two years play, the Irish team has only one game still in progress. On top board Gary Windebank needs a draw for an IM norm.
We shall probably finish in ninth place out of fourteen teams which is quite respectable in vioew of the size of the country and the quite small number of players available to us. Among the countries finishing below us will be the USA.
Windebank drew with the world's top-rated grandmaster, J. J. van Oosterom. He also drew with another former world champion, Tunc Hamarat. Desmond Taylor drew with another world champion, Gert Jan Timmerman, and had a fine win against high-rated GM Joachim Neumann of Germany.
The CC Olympiad 15 Final is being played on the ICCF webserver, having started on 30 March, 2006. Ireland qualified for the final, the first time this country ever achieved that distinction.
Qualifying for this event was the best performance ever by any Irish CC team.
For the full picture of the event, see the ICCF webserver.
Our team is (in rating, and board, order): Garry Windebank, Alan Ludgate, Desmond Taylor, Darrell Nightingale, Dr Eugene Gibney and Tim Harding (captain).
In the 7th European Team Championship preliminaries, where our second team is having a hard time, Ciaran O'Hare (on board two) has earned his first IM norm. Congratulations!
| Ireland | KAZ | POL | EST | LTU | GER | LAT | SLO | POR | AUT | USA | NOR | NED | RUS | Pts. |
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Windebank
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½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | . | 3½ |
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Taylor
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½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 7 |
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Ludgate
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½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 6½ |
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Nightingale
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½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 8 |
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Gibney
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½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 5½ |
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Harding
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1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 5½ |
| TOTALS | 3½ | 3½ | 3 | 2½ | 2½ | 3½ | 2½ | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 36 |
We have another page showing how Ireland qualified from the Preliminaries.
Sadly our board 6 player from that round, Michael J. Sheehan, died in January 2006 after losing his battle with cancer. Jonathan O'Connor, who had our best result in the preliminaries, declared himself unavailable for the Final.