The Irish Chess Union

Entries for the Irish Easter Festival 2026 events are open.

• Irish Easter Open 2026 - Enter here.
• O50/O65 Easter 2026 - Enter here.
• Irish Easter Blitz 2026 - Enter here.
• Irish Easter Norm Events 2026 - subject to capacity / norm requirements

All group winners of the Éanna March Quad can be seen here

Chess: The women content creators bringing the ancient game into the digital age.

We've added a new home page for organisers and would-be organisers.

You'll find a list of qualified arbiters, which we will be filling. We want to make it easy for organisers to find arbiters for their events. There used to be a web site for Irish arbiters, but sadly that has died.

We hope that the organisers page will be a place to find advice on running your own events.

Recently there have been some issues with people not being able to enter events. Some events do not have entry fees setup for them, so people can't enter these events.

Other events do have fees set up, but your shopping cart may remain empty after adding the fee. In this case, please open an incognito tab. This will force you to login again, and the shopping cart should work properly.

Entries for the Éanna March Quad close tonight at 10pm. Limited spaces remaining. Enter here.

46th Chess Olympiad 2026 will take place from September 15-28 in Samarkand,Uzbekistan. Information on Olympiad 2026 Selections: International Selection Committee, Captains & Criteria can be found here. email .

Enter the Gens Una Sumus Rapid tournaments. Two 6-round FIDE rated Rapids on the 29th of March, one for Juniors at 12:20 pm and an Open at 5.40 pm. Free entry for titled players before the 16th of March.