Ulster Players do well at Bunratty
Enjoying Bunratty
The full list of results can be seen on the Bunratty website :
http://www.bunrattychess.com/bunratty/minor/
http://www.bunrattychess.com/bunratty/major/
http://www.bunrattychess.com/bunratty/challengers/
http://www.bunrattychess.com/bunratty/masters/
More Ulster news from the event:http://ballynafeighchess.wordpress.com/chess-news-gossip/
Gareth Annesley played in the Masters with Grand-Masters, International-Masters. Gaining 2 points playing players all with ratings over 2000:
| Rnd | Table | Pno | Name | Rating | Result |
| 1 | 16 | 17 | Moynihan, Kieran | 2107 |
0 |
| 2 | 19 | 28 | Pearson, Ray | 2017 |
1 |
| 3 | 13 | 22 | Van Der Zwet, Bart | 2084 |
0 |
| 4 | 13 | 24 | Fox, Anthony | 2062 |
1 |
| 5 | 11 | 12 | IM Orr, Mark | 2240 |
0 |
| 6 | 13 | 19 | Steil-Antoni, Fiona | 2105 |
0 |
Thomas Donaldson coming from his brilliant result in the Williamson grows from strength to strength. Only dropping one game.
| Rnd | Table | Pno | Name | Rating | Result |
| 1 | 3 | 40 | Kelly, Martin | 1308 |
1 |
| 2 | 2 | 27 | Kilpatrick, Ian | 1410 |
½ |
| 3 | 7 | 37 | Higgins, Kenneth | 1324 |
½ |
| 4 | 9 | 25 | Watkins, Mark R. | 1421 |
1 |
| 5 | 5 | 23 | Finnegan, Mark | 1445 |
1 |
| 6 | 3 | 13 | Foran, Barry | 1480 |
0 |
Ian Kilpatrick also only dropped one game - meeting Thomas in round 2 the players drew.
| Rnd | Table | Pno | Name | Rating | Result |
| 1 | 27 | 65 | Sheedy, Shane | 1143 |
1 |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | Donaldson, Thomas | 1540 |
½ |
| 3 | 10 | 50 | Beatty, Ross | 1246 |
0 |
| 4 | 19 | 55 | McNamara, Jim | 1228 |
1 |
| 5 | 11 | 8 | O'Sullivan, Tom | 1498 |
1 |
| 6 | 6 | 10 | Hoogstad, Wim | 1491 |
½ |
Robert Lavery shared 4 points with his fellow Ballynafeigh club members
| Rnd | Table | Pno | Name | Rating | Result |
| 1 | 30 | 69 | Varley, Daniel | 1039 | ½ |
| 2 | 21 | 73 | Gallagher, Matthew | 997 | 1 |
| 3 | 13 | 68 | Bourke, John | 1110 | 1 |
| 4 | 4 | 5 | Gould, Richard | 1518 | ½ |
| 5 | 9 | 10 | Hoogstad, Wim | 1491 | 0 |
| 6 | 13 | 48 | Donnelly, Michael | 1248 | 1 |
Ashley McWhinney gained a brilliant 4.5 out of 6 in the Minors.
| Rnd | Table | Pno | Name | Rating | Result |
| 1 | 18 | 74 | Higgins, Stephen | 564 | 1 |
| 2 | 11 | 51 | Carthy, Julien | 790 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 48 | Singpurwala, Kevin | 804 | 0 |
| 4 | 10 | 53 | Faleschini, Sasha-Ettore | 713 | ½ |
| 5 | 16 | 67 | Boland, Dylan | 649 | 1 |
| 6 | 10 | 71 | Turner, Deirdre | 599 | 1 |
Other players included
in the challengers: Danny Mallaghan 3.5, Cecil Sloan 3.0, Damien Cunningham 2.5, John Cairns 2.5, Pat Coleman 2, Steven Eachus 2, Damien Lavery 1.5, Karina Kruk 1.5,
in the Major: Richard Gould 3.5, Martin Kelly 2.5, Matthew Chapman 2, Iza Bujak 1.5
in the Minor: Adrian Dornford-Smith 3.5, Paul Anderson 2
It is good to see Ulster players doing to well.
(If I have missed anyone - apologies.)
