The National Club Championship 2025 and Queen Maeve Cup 2025 were held Friday, March 7th, to Sunday, March 9th at the Sligo Park Hotel in Sligo.
Thank you to chief arbiter Colm O'Muireagain, deputy chief arbiter Zsolt Kardkovacs, tournament director/co-organiser Sandra Woods, and co-organiser Craig DuBose. Thank you to all of the players and their families. Thank you to the Sligo Park Hotel and to anyone else that had any hand in making the event run smoothly.
Here are a few general photos of the event:
Here are the final standings of the National Club Championships 2025. https://chess-results.com/tnr1112708.aspx?lan=1&art=0&turdet=YES
Rk. SNo Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 1 Ennis 5 4 1 0 9 19 68.8 77
2 3 Malahide 5 4 0 1 8 16 58 75.5
3 5 Saint Benildus 5 3 1 1 7 17.5 49.5 76
4 4 Master 5 2 2 1 6 16.5 45 77.5
5 7 Blanchardstown 5 2 1 2 5 15 37.3 81
6 6 UCD 5 2 1 2 5 14 34.3 79
7 9 Limerick 4 2 0 2 5 14 24.5 55
8 11 Elm Mount 4 1 1 2 4 14.5 18.3 56
9 2 Galway 4 1 0 3 3 14 12.5 62.5
10 8 Gonzaga 4 0 1 3 2 12.5 7.3 58.5
11 10 Sligo 4 0 0 4 1 12 0 60
Congratulations to the top three finishers:
Ennis (https://www.icu.ie/images/2451) (IM Oleg Gubanov, FM Zalan Nemeth, Blair Connell, FM Rory Quinn, FM Oscar Abraham Culbeaux Tello, Thomas Junior Dunne, Jonathan Melling, and CM Oissine Murchadha)
Malahide (https://www.icu.ie/images/2452) (CM Jacob Flynn, Patryk Brozynski, CM Andrey A. Ivanov, Karlo Kruslin, Gerard Buckley, Paul Taafe)
Saint Benildus (https://www.icu.ie/images/2453) (FM Stephen Brady, Mateo Corchon Granero, Karel Lievens, Dylan Boland, Kevin A. Burke, Zhengjn Wang)
Here are the final standings of the Queen Maeve Cup 2025:
Rk. SNo Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB4
1 2 University of Galway 5 4 1 0 9 16.5 56 48
2 3 Sligo A 5 4 1 0 9 16 47 38.8
3 4 Maynooth 5 3 0 2 6 11.5 60 27.5
4 5 National Chessmates 5 3 0 2 6 11 44 18
5 9 Scoil Ursula A 5 2 1 2 5 10 40 12.8
6 6 Sligo 1 5 2 1 2 5 9.5 54.5 24
7 1 Skerries and Balbriggan 5 2 0 3 4 9.5 61.5 17.5
8 7 North Leitrim Chessmates 5 1 1 3 3 8 45.5 4
9 10 Scoil Ursula Manorhamilton 5 1 1 3 3 8 38.5 4
10 8 Scoil Ursula B 5 0 0 5 0 0 53 0
Congratulations to the top three finishers:
University of Galway (https://www.icu.ie/images/2454) (Ross DuBerry, Roy Marshall, Seth McGrady, Tom Houde, Shane Whyte)
Sligo A (https://www.icu.ie/images/2455) (Kirill Burianchyk, Murray Liu, Theo Kloczko, Craig DuBose)
Maynooth (Kian O'Neill, John Brady, Charlie Bowman, Daniel Zhurau)