2012-05-17

GM School of Chess June event

Grandmaster Alex Baburin is running one more junior event before the summer break, on June 9th in Booterstown, click here for full details

2012-05-16

O'Donnell Cup

The O'Connell Cup (Novices League) run by the Leinster Chess Union (LCU) was completed on 12th May with 5 teams competing for the trophy. It was won by Elm Mount who had 5 wins and 2 draws in their 7 matches remaining unbeaten. Bray/Greystones finished as runners up, Portmarnock in 3rd place, Naomh Barrog 4th and Ballinasloe 5th.

The winning Elm Mount team, pictured right (and here) are (L to R): Shane Melaugh (10), Philip Grehan (7), Liza Fitzsimons (13), Gavin Melaugh (8) and Naoise MacGowan (12).

2012-05-15

May Rating List

The May list has been published along with a report.

2012-05-12

Reminder of EGMs

In case anyone has forgotten, the EGMs will be held on Sunday 13th May 2012. Venue is the function room in the United Arts Club at 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2. Doors open at 13:30. The first EGM will start at 14:00. The second will start 15 minutes after the first one finishes.

2012-05-11

Drogheda Chess Congress

The 23rd Drogheda Chess Congress will be held over the weekend of June 1st to 4th, click here for further details

2012-05-08

Malahide Millennium

The 12th Malahide Millennium Tournament (incorporating the Leinster Championships) took place at the weekend (May 5-7) in the Dublin Airport Hilton Hotel, Malahide Road.

Something that only became known as the event got underway was that this was the centenary Leinster Championship.

Junior: 1st-4th Gerard Wallace, Austin Blake, Brian McGrath and Mervyn Honner 5/6; Grading Prizes Padraig Hughes, Des Martin, Agnieszka Pozniak, Adam Bermingham, Michael Higgins and Jim O'Reilly.

Intermediate: 1st Carl Jackson 5.5/6; 2nd Sean Nolan 5/6; 3rd-5th Kieran Rogers, Valentine Kalinins and Paul Reilly 4/6; Grading Prizes Stephen Kelly and Shahram Nikrow.

Senior: 1st Petar Arnaudov [IM] 5/6; 2nd-4th Krasimir Rusev [GM], Colm Daly [FM] and David Fitzsimons 4.5/6; Grading Prize Rory Delaney.

The 2012 Leinster Champions are: Junior Gerard Wallace; Intermediate Carl Jackson; Senior Colm Daly [FM].

2012-05-02

Ennis Open coming up

The annual Ennis Open will be held over the weekend of May 18th -20th and John Cassidy has confirmed that both Gawain Jones and Simon Williams are participating. Click here to see the ICU calendar entry and further details are also on Rory Quinn's Ennis Chess Blog

2012-04-28

National Club Championships 2012

The National Chess Club Chamopionships 2012 were held in Adare, click here for results. For some selected games and photos, click here.

2012-04-28

LCU league players - do you want a FIDE rating?

The top two LCU leagues will, as usual, be rated with FIDE this year but so also will be leagues 3-5 (Ennis, O'Hanlon, BEA). This will mean registering many new players with FIDE and each will require a federation and date of birth. Unfortunately, for a small number of players, the ICU is not currently in possession of all the required information and unless it can be obtained these players and their results will have to be removed from the rating reports before they are sent to FIDE.

If you're an LCU league player and not already registered with FIDE please check this list and get in contact with us if you're on it. If you were born outside Ireland and are not sure what is meant by the term "federation", see this note.

2012-04-27

Child Protection Policy

As noted previously, the ICU has a draft Child Protection Policy. Before this becomes our official policy comments are invited from any interested parties and should be sent to the .