Kilkenny Chess Congress 2025

Location Kilkenny
Start date 2025-11-21
End date 2025-11-23
Sections Masters, Major, Stars Barred, 65+
Contact Maurice Buckley, 0872451039
Flyer ENTRYFORM2025_Including_Seniors_65_.docx
Category Irish
FIDE Rated? No
Notes

Entries close at midnight on Wednesday 19 th . . November 2025 Entries & payment may ONLY be made online, go to: https://www.icu.ie/events/1983 All Irish entrants must be registered current members of the I.C.U. Players with no chess rating will only be allowed play in the Stars Barred section. All foreign entrants must provide proof of their rating from their national chess association

65+ event will be FIDE rated.

(Clocks and boards will be provided)

Note: A travelling BYE may be availed

Entries

Masters 49 entries

2591 GM Sebastien Maze

2532 GM Simon K. Williams

2510 GM Yuri Solodovnichenko

2492 GM Fabien Libiszewski

2478 GM Matthew Turner

2457 IM Crg Krishna

2453 GM Eloi Relange

2446 IM Kevin Terrieux

2438 IM Tarun Kanyamarala

2418 GM Kristian Holm

2417 IM Thibault Fantinel

2372 GM Daniel Howard Fernandez

2351 FM Stephen Jessel

2313 GM Alexander Baburin

2293 IM Mark Quinn

2254 WIM Trisha Kanyamarala

2254 Michael Strache

2240 IM Lawrence Trent

2240 FM Jerome Solakian-Van Eyll

2223 Blair Connell

2218 CM Brandon Jiang

2217 CM Shane Melaugh

2186 FM Julian Groetzbach

2156 Paul A. Wallace

2131 FM Daire McMahon

2101 Harry Braine

2097 Dariy Kelbas

2096 Peter J. Hayes

2095 Oliver Barnes

2051 Mel O Cinneide

2043 CM Will Sidney

2037 Jamie Comley

2036 Alice O'Gorman

2033 Ragnar Holm

2025 Rafael Ninan Renji

2021 Anthony Bourached

2016 Finn Cummins

2014 WFM Diana Mirza

2012 David Geaney-O'Brien

1996 Gabriel Landmark

1970 Rudolf Tirziman

1968 Clement Meunier

1953 John P. A. Kennedy

1947 Oleksii Rai

1920 Advaith Nichenametla V

1913 Oisin P. Benson

1867 Daniil Nikolaev

1798 Dashiell Shaw

1683 Claudio Boino

Major 102 entries

2025 Mustakim-Ul Haque

2012 Guibson Martins De Oliveira

2002 Hugues Hoareau

1984 Declan Voogt

1980 Conor Nolan

1975 Padraig Hughes

1966 Kevin A. Burke

1956 Dermot Nolan

1942 Zhanting K. Ye

1936 Mateo Salmon Bermudez

1931 Derek O'Byrne

1925 Yinan Duan

1923 Sam O'Neill

1921 Jonathon Peoples

1915 John C. Kelly

1905 Arunas Alkevicius

1904 Vitaliy Salmin

1901 Shayan Zarein Dolab

1900 Henk De Jonge

1889 Patrick Lessmeister

1888 Shane McCabe

1886 Remi Zdenko

1885 Luke Hayden

1874 Paul Taaffe

1868 Alex Goss

1865 Jason Rawlinson

1864 Dean Copeland

1863 Aiden Thomas Boby

1863 Len Hackett

1863 Brendan Cooney

1860 Gabor Bolkeny

1859 Fiachra Moore

1854 Niki Mullins

1852 Eoin Minnock

1851 Seth McGrady

1850 Odhran McDonnell

1842 Sreeyan Andhurthi

1835 Marius Antohi

1835 Alexis Duault

1828 Eoin O'Higgins

1806 Rebekka Schuster

1798 Matthew O'Neill

1797 Paul C. Kiely

1797 Dylan Duggan

1796 Denis O'Connell

1794 Paul Ward

1793 Sam Murray

1792 Dimitri Speyer

1791 Tristan Butreau

1789 Paul Carey

1783 Joshua Blinkhorn

1773 Gabriel Da Silva

1764 Ruairi McKenna-Carroll

1759 Toby Crothers

1758 Kieran Barry

1756 Eoin Scully

1753 Pierre Rerot

1752 Liam O'Daly

1745 Elian D'Arcy

1744 Clement Augereau

1741 Kyle Purcell

1735 John Trulock

1733 Fred Armstrong

1732 Joe O'Hanlon

1732 David O'Driscoll

1728 Timothy O'Malley

1727 Bjorn Johannesson

1717 Paul Ryan

1717 James McAree

1714 Aken Pinitha Palihawadana

1712 Pierre Moyroud

1712 Joseph A. McDonnell

1702 Ruarai Goodfellow

1695 Thomas Syms

1694 Aaron Gallagher

1693 Caitlin Reid

1693 Emmanuel Darnis

1692 Cormac Roche

1692 John W. Curtis

1692 Jimmy Deneher

1692 Julius Busse

1690 Damien Descombe

1686 John Crowe

1684 Cal Nolan

1680 John Shearan

1665 Gavin Paterson

1664 Uwe Walschus

1660 Damien McCormick

1643 Olivier Naud

1627 Denis Lynch

1623 Eimhin Ward

1617 Paddy Corcoran

1615 Polly McCormick

1613 Vihan Patil

1608 James Kelly

1603 Liam Moran

1600 Hugo Chappe

1591 Daniel Fitzpatrick

1584 John Lucey

1529 Gary P. O'Grady

1300 Antonio Delbos

1200 Remi Verune

Stars Barred 72 entries

1956 Fahim Ahmed

1652 Daria Dzendzik

1638 Ronan Kelly

1624 Zsombor Vaczi

1615 Thomas Brennan

1601 Maurice Duignan

1591 Ronan McDermott

1585 Craig Dubose

1583 James Melay

1571 Adrian Kelly

1563 Adam Quinn

1547 Joe Kennedy

1539 Sean Bradley

1536 Austin Haoen Gu

1534 Oisin McFadden

1533 Cian O'Callaghan

1527 Jack Morrissey

1518 Yiming Fang

1510 John Keher

1503 Leonardo Santos

1498 Patrick Hanna

1487 Matthew Duggan

1476 Roger Hennessy

1476 Seamus Martin

1474 Arron Maccormack

1460 Jack O'Neill

1448 Adhvik Kumar

1427 Leo Latorre

1426 Aidan Walsh

1419 Aaliyah Eusebio

1418 Conor McMahon

1415 Ultan Donnelly

1405 Marina Atkinson

1398 Hezhang Tang

1373 Ben Carter

1359 Eve Bourached

1359 Ryan Maathew

1355 David Dooley

1351 Brendan Collins

1337 Eoghan O'Neill

1329 Matthew Phelan

1289 Nicholas Hegarty

1282 Ruth Rogers

1270 Piotr Sklym

1269 Thomas Craig

1248 Joe Brennan

1211 Jack Keogh

1205 Hongyi Cheng

1199 Lohith Sai Pakala

1172 Sarah Rogers

1163 Mcfadden Tony

1162 Gauri Mindhe

1158 Eoin Redmond

1141 Sean Condron

1137 Leon O'Dwyer McElgunn

1129 Peter Williamson

1100 Amy Grennan

1072 Rithwik Das

1065 John Mariya Janeesh

1035 Aarvi Pandey

1000 Joseph Mario Janeesh

891 Tisya Singh

882 Katherine Harris

742 Gareth O'Connor

400 Amelia Kelly

400 Leo Kelly

400 Laurence Kelly

400 Dean Bourached

Malachy O'Keeffe

Terry McVeigh

Eric Bijoy

Martin O'Neill

65+ 25 entries

2204 Stanislav Knokhel

2149 Bram Van Dijk

1987 Michael Gaffney

1925 Joe Noone

1920 CM Gerard MacElligott

1892 NM Eamon Keogh

1886 Thomas Hauptmann

1845 Bernard Boyle

1801 Cecil Sloan

1752 Eugene Donohoe

1745 Noel Quinn

1745 David O'Kelly

1708 Barry Foran

1694 Andrew Barber

1617 Rainer Knochel

1613 Niall P. Whelan

1597 Thomas Cleary

1575 Kevin Fitzpatrick

1568 Shay Scott

1554 Nikolai Dimitrov

1508 Michael Joseph O'Connell

1470 Derek Stacey

1409 Anthony Condron

1215 John O'Neill

1189 Bill McIntyre