and a firm hope to be back here in
2012.
The BCAI would like to thank the
following organisations for their
support in connection with this
tournament:
NCBI, The National League of the
Blind of Ireland, Irish Blindsports,
The Irish Chess Union, and The
Leinster Chess Union.
McElroy, Ernie (Ireland) - Whittle,
Les (England)
BCAI Open Tournament, Rd 3
1.e4 c5 2.¥f3 ¥c6 3.¥c3 d6 4.d4
cxd4 5.¥xd4 g6 6.¤e3 ¤g7
7.£d2 ¤d7 8.¤c4 ¦c8 9.¤d3
¥a5 10.O-O a6 11.f3 ¥c4
12.¤xc4 ¦xc4 13.¥d5 ¤c6
14.¥xc6 ¦xc6 15.c3 a5 16.¦ad1
e6 17.¥f4 ¥e7 18.¥e2 O-O
19.¥d4 ¤xd4 20.¤xd4 ¥c8
21.£h6 f6 22.e5 ¥e7 23.exf6 ¥f5
24.£g5 ¥xd4 25.¦xd4 £xf6
26.£xa5 d5 27.£b5 ¦b8 28.¦fd1
£d8 29.£e2 ¦a8 30.a3 £b6
31.¢h1 ¦f8 32.¦b4 £c7 33.¦e1
¦f6 34.£e3 ¢f7 35.£h6 ¢g8
36.h3 ¦b6 37.£g5 ¦f5 38.£e3
¦xb4 39.£xe6+ £f7 40.axb4
£xe6 41.¦xe6 1-0
Delaney, Michael (Ireland) Berggren, Patrik (Sweden)
BCAI Open Tournament, Rd 5
1.d4 ¥f6 2.¤g5 d5 3.¤xf6 exf6
4.e3 ¤d6 5.c4 dxc4 6.¤xc4 O-O
7.¥f3 ¤g4 8.¥bd2 ¥d7 9.O-O f5
10.£c2 ¥f6 11.h3 ¤xf3 12.¥xf3
¥e4 13.¤d5 ¤h2+ 14.¢xh2
£xd5 15.£xc7 ¦fc8 16.£e5
£xe5+ 17.¥xe5 ¦c2 18.¥d3
¦ac8 19.¦ac1 ¦xc1 20.¦xc1
¦xc1 21.¥xc1 ¥xf2 22.¢g3 ¥d1
23.¢f4 ¥xb2 24.¢xf5 ¥c4
25.¢e4 ¢f8 26.¢d3 ¥d6 27.e4
¢e7 28.¥b3 ¢d7 29.d5 b6
30.¥d4 f6 31.¥e6 ¥e8 32.¢d4
¢d6 33.¥f4 ¥c7 34.¥d3 ¥b5+
35.¢c4 ¥c7 36.a4 a6 37.¢d4 1/21/2
Final scores.
Open Tournament:
1-4 Patrik Berggren, 4.5;
Philip Doyle, 4.5;
Markus Berggren, 4.5;
Michael Delaney, 4.5;
5-8 Ernie McElroy, 3.5;
David Hodgkins, 3.5;
Håkan Thomsson 3.5 (grading
prize);
Olle Engström, 3.5 (grading prize);
9-13 Sean Loftus, 3;
Colin Chambers, 3;
Joe McAloon, 3;
Eamonn Casey, 3;
Richard Spele (Sweden), 3;
14-16 Les Whittle, 2.5;
Gerard den Otter (Netherlands),
2.5;
Laurent Peignien (France), 2.5;
17-19 Bernard Duthoit (France), 1.5;
Nenand Antonic (France), 1.5;
John Dearie (Scotland), 1.5;
20 Jean-Claude Martin (France), 1.
Minor Tournament:
1 Fredrik Ljungdahl, 6;
2 Philippe de Coninck, 4.5;
3-4 Gary Wickett, 4;
Martin Kane, 4;
5 John Carroll, 3.5;
6-10 Regis Gerbaux (France), 3;
Shane Hall, 3;
Koenraad Lecluyse, 3;
Bengt Eriksson, 3;
Hernon Sobredo (Sweden), 3;
11 Stan Lightowler (Norrthern
Ireland), 2;
12-13 Wilfried Van Der Velden, 1.5;
Ann Casey, 1.5.
chess spy!
By PETER CAFOLLA
KILKENNY CONGRESS 2010
This year’s Kilkenny Congress was probably one of the
best ever with a glittering array of GMs and most of our
own top players competing. IM Sam Collins did
fantastically well to