ICU NEW YEAR FESTIVAL 2026 - OPEN AND 50/65 IRISH CHAMPIONSHIPS

Location Stillorgan Talbot Hotel, Dublin
Start date 2026-01-01
End date 2026-01-04
Sections Open, 50+, 65+
Contact Ivan Baburin
Event website s1.chess-results.com/Tnr1326640.aspx?lan=1&SNode=S0
livechesscloud.com broadcast URL view.livechesscloud.com/#251d2844-9834-47dc-a8a9-cb6d6f3de702
lichess.org broadcast URL lichess.org/broadcast/the-irish-50-and-65-championships-and-new-year-open-events-2026/round-2/91crQ5Rw#boards
Category Irish
FIDE Rated? Yes
Time Control(s) Classical
Notes

Rounds at 10am/3pm each day, with round 1 at 6:30pm.

More details to follow.

Entries

Open 40 entries

2210 FM Colm Daly

2204 CM Shane Melaugh

2172 Pratik Mulay

2114 FM Gordon Freeman

2062 Padraig Hughes

2062 Conor Sheehan

2048 Alice O'Gorman

2046 Harry Braine

1993 Rudolf Tirziman

1971 Mark McGrath

1968 Lorcan Heron

1958 Fiachra Moore

1955 Brian Gallagher

1935 Murray Liu

1923 Vivaan Singhal

1917 Alex Goss

1909 Darshan Choudhury

1879 Seth McGrady

1879 Sitki Fatih Karacol

1852 Darragh Greenan

1821 Indrajit Desai

1815 Ciaran O'Reilly

1754 Joe O'Hanlon

1739 Eoin Scully

1720 Liam O'Daly

1674 Sean Slevin

1669 Edgar Manuel Cavaco Afonso

1659 Alan Lane

1652 Patrick Hanna

1636 David Lynch

1574 Prisha Gupta

1550 Conor Lynch

1534 Michael Afanasiev Elioutin

1527 Kevin Fitzpatrick

1523 David Greenan

1477 Daniel Afanasiev Elioutin

1472 Martin J. Sharry

1297 Martin Schranz

1217 Ganesh Katuri

700 Fionn Lynch

50+ 11 entries

2480 GM Keith C. Arkell

2163 Jonathan O'Connor

1868 Anthony Fox

1843 Vjekoslav Novak

1811 Shahram Nikrow

1808 Derek O'Byrne

1774 Joseph A. McDonnell

1748 Brian O'Gorman

1744 Fred Armstrong

1722 Pat Fitzsimons

1670 Jimmy Deneher

65+ 26 entries

2008 CM Tim Harding

2005 Gerard O'Connell

1957 CM Gerard MacElligott

1947 Joe Noone

1927 Ciaran Quinn

1847 NM Eamon Keogh

1846 Pat Reynolds

1845 Bernard Boyle

1835 Jim Murray

1834 John Loughran

1827 Tony Bermingham

1768 Noel Quinn

1767 Art Coldrick

1762 Brian Moore

1716 Eugene Donohoe

1700 Niall P. Whelan

1697 Peter J. Lynch

1692 Maurice Buckley

1689 Michael Burniston

1581 Jasvinderpal Singh

1574 Shay Scott

1562 Tom O'Sullivan

1541 Nikolai Dimitrov

1531 Chris Ducker

1431 Sean Reinhardt

1344 Ronan Rigney