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Cork Congress 2025 - Masters

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29 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 03 Oct 2025 to 05 Oct 2025 in Clayton Hotel Cork City, 10 Lapp's Quay, Cork, T12 RD6E, Ireland. 5 titled players from 5 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 0.

Kavin Venkatesan (🇮🇪 IRL, FM, 0) won with 4.5/5, ahead of David Fitzsimons (4.5) and Dariy Kelbas (4.0). Venkatesan shared the lead from round 4, winning on tie-break.

Location
🇮🇪Clayton Hotel Cork City, 10 Lapp's Quay, Cork, T12 RD6E, Ireland
Dates
03 Oct 2025 → 05 Oct 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 5 rounds
Avg top 10
0
Participants
29
Titled players · 5
IM×2
FM×1
CM×1
WFM×1
Federations · 5 represented
🇮🇪Ireland×24
🇺🇦Ukraine×2
🇪🇸Spain×1
🇹🇷Turkiye×1
🇵🇱Poland×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 5 rounds

Tight race until R5; 2 players tied at 4.5/5, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
12
2
6
2
2
1.52.545R1R2R3R4R5
Fitzsimons4.5Venkatesan4.5Kelbas4Geaney-O`brien3.5Cogelja3Bartczak3
R5 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 4.5/5. Venkatesan takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (13.5).

R3 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

IM David Fitzsimons drew with FM Kavin Venkatesan (White).

R1–R5 · UNBEATEN

IM David Fitzsimons went unbeaten across 5 games (R1–R5).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1IMDavid Fitzsimons*
½
——
2FMKavin Venkatesan
½
*——
3Dariy Kelbas——*—
4David Geaney-O`brien———*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Venkatesan, KavinFM0IRL+22B+7N=2N+6B+5N4.513.515.012.752408+14.2
2Fitzsimons, DavidIM0IRL+26B+19N=1B+9N+8B4.512.513.511.252456+8.8
3Kelbas, Dariy0UKR+16N=9N+17B=5B+10N4.011.514.011.002299+117.6
4Geaney-O`brien, David0IRL=21N+20B=8B=7N+29B3.59.59.55.752099+14.4
5Arun, NitishCM0IRL+29B=11N+12B=3N−1B3.014.514.56.502019-16.0
6O'driscoll, Kieran0IRL+13B=8N+11B−1N=7B3.013.516.59.002104+7.8
7Fil, Alkim Alper0TUR+15N−1B+21N=4B=6N3.013.515.07.252102+27.6
8Gubanov, OlegIM0IRL+25N=6B=4N+15B−2N3.013.514.56.752113-8.4
9Bartczak, Korneliusz0IRL+28N=3B+14N−2B=15N3.013.514.06.252046-4.8
10Petrenko, MarynaWFM0IRL−14N+18B+26N+16B−3B3.011.012.05.501940-15.2
11Cogelja, Mihovil Niko0IRL+24N=5B−6N=12N+28B3.010.511.05.002053+54.0
12Burke, Kevin A.0IRL=18N+21B−5N=11B+27N3.09.510.55.001962+7.4
13Jagic, Jakov0IRL−6N+25B+19B−17N+18B3.09.510.55.002052+42.0
14Comley, Jamie0IRL+10B=17N−9B=18N=16N2.511.013.06.502002+29.2
15Siller-Aziz, Namo0IRL−7B+22N+23B−8N=9B2.510.512.04.502005+2.8
16De Jonge, Henk0IRL−3B+29N+27B−10N=14B2.510.510.52.251885-5.8
17Hohelj, Stanislav0UKR+23N=14B−3N+13B—2.59.511.05.751968-20.0
18Condon, Gerard0IRL=12B−10N+20N=14B−13N2.011.513.54.751831+2.4
19Kelly, John C.0IRL+27N−2B−13N+25B—2.08.59.52.001977+2.6
20Novak, Vjekoslav0IRLF−4N−18B+23B+24N2.08.58.53.001915+9.0
21Putar, Slavko0IRL=4B−12N−7B−22N+25N1.511.012.02.751767-13.4
22Leichert, Piotr0POL−1N−15B−24N+21B=23N1.510.011.52.251849-8.8
23O`Donovan, Paul0IRL−17B+24B−15N−20N=22B1.58.510.02.251829-10.6
24Cummins, Finn0IRL−11B−23N+22B=28N−20B1.58.08.51.751726-64.8
25Taaffe, Paul0IRL−8B−13N+29B−19N−21B1.09.59.50.001732-22.8
26Luna Ordonez, Alejandro0ESP−2N+28B−10B——1.07.58.00.501936+0.8
27Loughran, John0IRL−19BF−16N+29N−12B1.07.57.50.001723-10.0
28Kurochkin, Iaromir0IRL−9B−26NF=24B−11N0.58.58.50.751626-48.4
29Carey, Paul0IRL−5N−16B−25N−27B−4N0.010.011.00.001147-43.4

Key insights

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