Christmas Blitz 2024

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The Club’s Annual Christmas Blitz took place on Monday 16th December 2024 and attracted an entry of 27.

The players were divided into 4 all play all groups, Sections A to D, which were won by David Fitzsimons, Alan MacDonagh, Peter Scott and Eric Yuze Lin respectively.

The other prize winners were Gavin Melaugh and Fred Armstrong in Section A, Bernard Boyle and Thomas Syms in Section B, Shaurya Dash and Nicu Boldijar in Section C and Cormac McCarthy in Section D.

The photos of the prize winners with Club Secretary Pat Fitzsimons are set out below along with the crosstables containing the results of each section. As the winner of Section A, with a perfect score of 7/7, David Fitzsimons is the club’s blitz champion for 2024. It is also noteworthy that some of the club’s younger members (Thomas, Shaurya and Eric) were among the prize-winners.

The cross-tables are below:-

Elm Mount Christmas Blitz 2024 Section A

 

 

Final ranking
 

Rank

Name

Rtg

FED

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Pts

Placing

  

1

IM

 Fitzsimons David

2351

IRL

*

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

7

 1st  

2

Melaugh Gavin

2000

IRL

0

*

0

1

½

1

1

1

4½

 2nd  

3

Armstrong Fred

1821

IRL

0

1

*

0

1

0

1

1

4

 3rd (tie break)  

4

O’ Neill Paul

1970

IRL

0

0

1

*

0

1

1

1

4

    

5

Jakubauskas Zygimantas

2006

IRL

0

½

0

1

*

0

1

1

3½

    

6

Quinn Ciaran

1991

IRL

0

0

1

0

1

*

½

0

2½

    

7

Braine Harry

1968

IRL

0

0

0

0

0

½

*

1

1½

    

8

Garcia De Zouza Kim

2070

BRA

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

*

1

    

Note: Where players are on equal points, lower rated player is placed higher for tie break purposes

 
 

Elm Mount Christmas Blitz 2024 Section B

 

Final ranking

 
 

Rank

 Name

Rtg

FED

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Pts

   Placing  

1

 MacDonagh Alan

1800

IRL

*

0

0

1

1

1

1

4

  

1st (tie break)

2

 Boyle Bernard

1803

IRL

1

*

0

1

0

1

1

4

  

2nd (tie break)

3

 Syms Thomas

1706

IRL

1

1

*

1

0

0

0

3

  

3rd (tie break)

4

 Fitzsimons Pat

1807

IRL

0

0

0

*

1

1

1

3

      

5

 O’ Danachair Donal

1682

IRL

0

1

1

0

*

½

0

2½

      

6

 Karacol Sitki Fatih

1800

IRL

0

0

1

0

½

*

1

2½

      

7

 Herring Jack

1778

IRL

0

0

1

0

1

0

*

2

      

Note: Where players are on equal points, lower rated player is placed higher for tie break purposes

 
 

Elm Mount Christmas Blitz 2024 Section C

 

Final ranking

 
 

Rank

 Name

Rtg

FED

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Pts

 Placings  

1

 Scott Peter

1675

IRL

*

1

0

½

1

1

1

1

5½

 1st  

2

 Boldijar Nicu

1626

IRL

0

*

1

1

0

1

1

1

5

 3rd (tie break)  

3

 Dash Shaurya

1545

IRL

1

0

*

0

1

1

1

1

5

 2nd (tie break)  

4

 McMorrow Eugene

1700

IRL

½

0

1

*

1

0

1

1

4½

    

5

 Crawley Wayne

1550

IRL

0

1

0

0

*

1

1

1

4

    

6

 O’ Connor Terry

1592

IRL

0

0

0

1

0

*

1

0

2

    

7

 Biswas Samundra

1600

IRL

0

0

0

0

0

0

*

1

1

    

8

 Lynch David

1575

IRL

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

*

1

    

Note: Where players are on equal points, lower rated player is placed higher for tie break purposes

 
 

Elm Mount Christmas Blitz 2024 Section D

 

Final ranking

 
 

Rank

 Name  

FED

1

2

3

4

Pts

Placings

  

1

 Yuze Lin Eric  

IRL

* *

0 1

1 1

1 1

5

1st

  

2

 McCarthy Cormac  

IRL

1 0

* *

1 -

1 1

4

2nd

  

3

 O’ Neill Sean P  

IRL

0 0

0 -

* *

1 0

1

 

4

 Fitzsimons Philip  

IRL

0 0

0 0

0 1

* *

1

 
 

 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!

 

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