Irish New Year GM Norm Event, 2-6 January 2022

 More news of title-norm tournaments, this time from Ireland. The Irish Chess Union ran what were meant to be two title-norm all-play-alls over the New Year period, but sadly had a last-minute withdrawal in the IM norm section and could not get a replacement player.

Still, the GM norm section ran and did its job: Icelandic IM Vignir Vatnar Stefansson convincingly won the tournament and exceeded the GM norm requirements by half a point. Nobody else managed to get a norm, although Tom O'Gorman would have achieved an IM norm had he beaten Sam Collins in their last-round game.

		Name	Rating	Federation	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points
1	IM	Stefansson Vignir Vatnar	2465	Iceland	*	½	1	1	1	½	1	½	1	1	7½
2	GM	Gonzalez Garcia Jose	2466	Spain	½	*	1	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	6
3	IM	Collins Sam E.	2456	Ireland	0	0	*	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	6
4	IM	Murphy Conor E.	2431	Ireland	0	½	½	*	1	½	1	½	1	0	5
5	GM	Arkell Keith	2370	England	0	½	½	0	*	1	½	0	1	1	4½
6	FM	O'Gorman Tom	2350	Ireland	½	½	0	½	0	*	½	1	½	1	4½
7	GM	Motwani Paul	2432	Scotland	0	½	0	0	½	½	*	½	1	1	4
8	IM	Fitzsimons David	2337	Ireland	½	½	0	½	1	0	½	*	½	½	4
9	FM	Kanyamarala Tarun	2398	Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	*	1	2
10		Cafolla Peter	1976	Ireland	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	½	0	*	1½