The Drogheda Chess Congress 2026
| Location | St Mary's Parish Primary School, Bryanstown, Drogheda A92 XD80 |
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| Start date | 2026-05-30 |
| End date | 2026-06-01 |
| Prize fund | €3,000 |
| Sections | Thomson Masters (≥1900 Rating), O'Boyle Championship (1750-1949 Rating), Fox Major (1550-1799 Rating), Murray Challengers (<1600 Rating) |
| Contact | Frank Pentony, +353 87 798 7947 |
| Event website | congress.droghedachess.club |
| Pairings URL | s1.chess-results.com/tnr1423859.aspx?lan=1&turdet=YES&SNode=S0 |
| lichess.org broadcast URL | lichess.org/broadcast/35th-drogheda-chess-congress--thomson-masters/round-1/VKv6Y1NC |
| Report URL | www.icu.ie/articles/1215 |
| Flyer | DroghedaChessCongress2026Flyer.pdf |
| Category | Irish |
| FIDE Rated? | Yes |
| Time Control(s) | Classical |
| Notes | |
FIDE & ICU rated all sections. 90+30. 6 rounds. 10am, 3pm daily. Sat, Sun & Mon (Bank Holiday) |
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Entries
Thomson Masters (≥1900 Rating) 22 entries
2453 IM Tarun Kanyamarala
2383 FM Oleg Artemenko
2308 CM Jacob Flynn
2255 WGM Trisha Kanyamarala
2255 CM Shane Melaugh
2230 Oisin O'Cuilleanain
2224 FM Jason Liu
2192 FM Colm Daly
2158 Korneliusz Bartczak
2142 WFM Maryna Petrenko
2110 CM Andrey A. Ivanov
2074 Ethan Cole
2038 Alkim Alper Fil
2037 Oliver Barnes
2007 Padraig Hughes
2002 Mert Can Ozarpaci
2002 Sean Cummins
1987 Advaith Nichenametla V
1959 Sreeyan Andhurthi
1943 Joshua Ryan
1931 Murray Liu
Aaravamudhan Balaji
O'Boyle Championship (1750-1949 Rating) 25 entries
1940 Jacob Nelson
1939 Illia Smoliarenko
1927 Nicole White
1921 Iaromir Kurochkin
1910 George White
1898 Saiansh Biswal
1897 James Kavanagh
1880 Bernard Boyle
1871 Donal O'Boyle
1863 Chris White
1859 Ayaansh Mulukutla
1857 Darragh Greenan
1854 John Loughran
1828 Gerard Buckley
1809 Shane Corry
1804 Shane Keers
1796 Beril Bayrak
1790 Piotr Baczkowski
1767 Fred Armstrong
1763 Joe O'Hanlon
1758 Hugh Kelly
1758 Jarek Wieczorek
1739 Kyle Purcell
1638 Tengle Alvin Su
Tim Daly
Fox Major (1550-1799 Rating) 28 entries
1751 Aarav Kesare
1734 Tara Turcin
1726 Stefan Baczkowski
1724 Owen Johnston
1724 Paul Greenan
1723 Gordon Roe
1721 Alex O'Rourke
1710 Jingxuan Qiao
1708 Aken Pinitha Palihawadana
1703 Eoin Dunne
1689 Kieran Barry
1665 Peter J. Lynch
1663 Liam Pentony
1642 Thierry Brearley
1638 Dominykas Venskus
1628 D. N. Akobo
1623 Christopher Zele
1623 Stephen Cashin
1592 Jp Butler
1572 Paddy Divilly
1571 Adam Courtney
1560 Shay Scott
1556 Carl O'Connor
1539 Kevin Fitzpatrick
1536 Sean Bryan
1464 Shreyansh Duppalapudi
1303 Nikodim Kurochkin
Agnieszka Pozniak
Murray Challengers (<1600 Rating) 41 entries
1678 Agasthya Kunder
1611 Jayden Amrolan
1554 Yuvan Pradeep Kumar
1537 Cillian McBrien
1537 Euan Smith
1526 Max Tuite
1526 Oisin Lynch
1523 Sam Keogh
1478 Shrey Bhardwaj
1452 Daniel Afanasiev Elioutin
1446 Seamus Martin
1427 Adam Mallett
1420 Aarvi Bharadwaj
1420 Karolina Zerner
1409 Aarav Rudroju
1407 Ilankathir Vanjinathan
1401 Xinmin Chen
1396 Erin O'Reilly
1385 Dean Patrick Sherry
1382 Michael Afanasiev Elioutin
1378 Max McGuinness
1359 David Emmo
1342 Yuvan Thakkar
1286 Havish Srivatsav Kara
1281 Kishan Pradeep Kumar
1280 Ivaan Ghanekar
1242 Ritchie McDonnell
1206 Noah Mag Raine
1185 Rayyan Alam
1134 Anita Atelj Turcin
1121 Siddhant Dhake
1057 Bogdan Ceban
999 Ricky Yeung
Jay Murphy
Francis Mathew
Abraham De Ceita
Sean Dunne
Emmanuel Anwana
Kristian Hammond-Nyland
Nojus Borusevicius
Andrew Anderson