Tournaments Rated During 2005-2006 Season
- Club Tournaments
- Elm Mount CC 2005
- Ennis Club Championships 2005
- Malahide Club Championships 2005
- Phibsboro Senior Club Championships 2005
- Adare Club Tournament 2005
- Dublin CC Club Championships 2005
- Galway Winter League 2006
- Bray Club Championships 2006
- Rathmines Club Championships 2006
- Malahide Club Championships 2006
- Malahide Ladder 2006
- National Events
- Munster Championships 2005
- Braille Championships 2005
- Galway Congress 2005
- Limerick Open 2005
- Kilkenny Congress 2005
- Leinster Championships 2005
- Mulcahy Cup 2006
- Munster Junior Championships 2006
- Gonzaga Congress 2006
- Bunratty Festival 2006
- Interprovincials 2006
- LCU Leagues 2006
- Cork Congress 2006
- North Munster 2006
- Irish Junior Championships 2006
- Malahide Millennium 2006
- All-Ireland Colleges 2006
- Branagan Cup 2006
- Killane Cup 2006
- Drogheda Congress 2006
- National Club Championships 2006
- Irish Championships 2006
- Individual Foreign Tournaments
- Ulster Leagues 2005
- Ulster Senior 2005
- Nell Van de Graaff Classic
- Ruth Coxhill Memorial 2005
- European Club Championships
- Seefeld Open
- Isle of Man Masters
- Ulster Open Weekender
- Calvia Chess Festival
- Queensland Weekender
- Coffs Harbour Open
- Aeroflot Open 2006
- Prague Open 2006
- Williamson Shield 2006
- Gibraltar Chess Congress 2006
- Gibraltar Challengers 2006
- Blackpool Chess Conference 2006
- Ulster Leagues 2006
- Catalan Leagues 2006
- Southend Chess Congress 2006
- Ulster Senior 2006
- 4NCL
- Salou
- Solingen Tournament
- Richard Delaune
- Midnight Sun Chess Challenge, Tromso
- World Open
- First Saturday, Budapest
- South Wales International
- South Wales Weekender
- European Youth Team Championships
- Glorney & Faber
- Ciutat de Badalona
- British Championships
- Koszalin Festival, Poland
- EU Youths
- Weald Chess Congress
- Tournaments Not Yet Received
- Tres Peons
- Sant Marti
- Foment
- Leinster Juniors
- Ennis League
- Cork CC Club Championships
- Munster Leagues
- Sants
- Greek Championships
- Austrian Open
- FIDE Rated Events 2005-2006
- Leinster Championships 2005 Masters
- Irish Championships 2006 Senior
SP-DBFs created and sent to all Tournament Controllers
- Sept 05
- Jan 06
- Mar 06
- May 06
Rating List Published
- Sept 05
- Jan 06
- May 06
September 2006 rating list hopefully to be released no later than 17th September a deadline of 3rd September for all outstanding results to be received has been set.
Observations on Rating Officers Job
Generally the job has not been too daunting, mostly due to the help from the previous officer, Vincent Bissett all his help has been gratefully received!
One point of note is of the growing amount of requests from individuals to have their foreign tournament performances rated. There have been requests for about 50 foreign tournaments to be rated over the past season. The problem with this is the amount of time that is spent rating one of these tournaments. It is no exaggeration to say that it is far easier and far less time consuming to rate one of the large weekend Irish tournaments than to rate one foreign event. I feel that maybe the time has come to charge a fee for this service after all ICU membership only entitles members to have their ICU games rated.
One other point is the decision of the LCU to abandon the use of the League Master program to report their league results without discussing this with the ICU. The League Master program was developed by Ray OBrien, who was also responsible for the ICU rating program, and was designed to create files from league results in acceptable format to be imported into the rating program. Fortunately, I was able to use the results that were provided by the LCU from their new program (after a bit of work!). It is quite disappointing that the LCU should just charge ahead with such a decision without the courtesy to check whether the ICU can actually use the information they provide.