The DCU Open 2026

Location The Auditorium, Education Building, St. Patrick's Campus, Drumcondra, DCU
Start date 2026-02-20
End date 2026-02-22
Prize fund €3,000
Sections Open, Major(1900-1650), Challengers(u1650)
Contact Julia Meza, 0838561667
Pairings URL s3.chess-results.com/tnr1356869.aspx?lan=1&SNode=S0
livechesscloud.com broadcast URL view.livechesscloud.com/#642f6615-0e37-4e0f-98f4-304cba30389a
Flyer IV_DCU_CHESS_OPEN.pdf
Category Irish
FIDE Rated? Yes
Time Control(s) Classical
Notes

Prize winners: https://www.icu.ie/articles/1193
Announcements and conditions: https://www.icu.ie/articles/1191 5 round FIDE and ICU rated classical tournament.
Open and Major: 90+30.
Challengers: 60+30.
3 sections:
Open Championship - Open to all ratings.
Major - 1650-1900 ICU & FIDE.
Challengers - Under 1650 ICU & FIDE.

R1 Friday 7pm (All)
R2 Saturday 10am (All)
R3 Saturday 2pm (Challengers) 3pm (Open & Major)
R4 Sunday 10am (All)
R5 2pm (Challengers) 3pm (Open & Major)

Side Event: https://www.irish-go.org/2026/01/03/leinster-open-2026/

Entries

Open 42 entries

2372 FM Oleg Artemenko

2363 IM David Fitzsimons

2292 CM Jacob Flynn

2217 CM Shane Melaugh

2217 WGM Shrook Wafa

2196 FM Colm Daly

2196 Oisin O'Cuilleanain

2133 Lukian Hushpit

2124 Gavin Melaugh

2056 CM Will Sidney

2038 Alice O'Gorman

2022 Dariy Kelbas

2006 WFM Diana Mirza

2004 Advaith Nichenametla V

2004 Oleksii Rai

2000 Finn Cummins

1988 Padraig Hughes

1981 Jacob Nelson

1980 Sean Cummins

1976 Rudolf Tirziman

1968 Tallann Maguire

1967 Gerard McIlroy

1961 Yinan Duan

1960 Alwin Micheal

1957 Emmet Orourke

1945 Niall Fitzgerald

1929 Joshua Ryan

1895 Sanjay Menon

1893 Martin Fitzgerald

1893 Vitaliy Salmin

1890 Mihovil Niko Cogelja

1875 Ayaansh Mulukutla

1873 Rohan Salin

1841 Sean Cullen

1832 Sreeyan Andhurthi

1717 Romani Taylor-Hewins

1427 Leo Latorre

1201 Sanjith Menon

1199 Karthik Srikrishna Punuru

1135 Marin Larmagnac

Anvita Ramesh Nair

Aadya Sinha

Major(1900-1650) 36 entries

1925 Shaurya Dash

1909 Vivaan Singhal

1901 Aiden Thomas Boby

1901 Darragh Greenan

1893 Illia Smoliarenko

1892 Murray Liu

1885 Darshan Choudhury

1856 Alexander Kozlov

1824 Marius Antohi

1812 Clemens Dahmen

1804 Shane Corry

1801 Dylan McBrien

1788 Slavko Putar

1782 Thomas Syms

1771 Eugene Donohoe

1771 Cahit Furkan Sallan

1761 Angel Mariya Boby

1755 Kieran Barry

1750 Saiansh Biswal

1742 Dominykas Venskus

1742 Bjorn Johannesson

1738 Paul Greenan

1735 Jack Herring

1728 Stefan Baczkowski

1727 Joseph A. McDonnell

1719 Robert Nielsen

1710 Stefan Kolev

1709 Arsen Hakhumyan

1708 Michael Pentony

1708 Adam D. Bermingham

1691 Aken Pinitha Palihawadana

1679 Pat Fitzsimons

1678 Krzysztof Nowak

1649 Jimmy Deneher

1601 Tengle Alvin Su

1461 Pritesh Kumar

Challengers(u1650) 90 entries

1649 Lucas Cunningham Fernandez

1641 Philip Mitchell

1627 Tony Bregazzi

1620 Jp Butler

1614 Liam Pentony

1611 Karina Chan

1605 Eoin Dunne

1603 Alexandros Sykaras

1586 Eamon Peart

1584 Andrew Conneely

1573 Adam Courtney

1569 Reece Hickey

1565 Danyil Siruk

1561 David Greenan

1560 Tara Turcin

1557 Agasthya Kunder

1554 Frank Pentony

1553 Austin Haoen Gu

1530 Jamie S. Oconnor

1528 Patrick Hanna

1526 Shrey Bhardwaj

1522 Sean Bryan

1517 Edward Donlon

1515 James A. Cahill

1514 Nikolai Dimitrov

1509 Jayden Amrolan

1501 Lorena Putar

1494 Nuoheng Zou

1491 Shreyansh Duppalapudi

1489 Martin J. Sharry

1488 Ronaldo Ozolins

1474 Eva Sharma

1462 Shasini Maniraj

1458 Sean Pesca

1454 Artem Khrushch

1452 Daniel Afanasiev Elioutin

1448 Adhvik Kumar

1406 Adhiraj Bhushan

1401 Erica Bermingham

1390 Theo Scanlan Gleeson

1384 Conor McMahon

1384 Michael Afanasiev Elioutin

1383 Paul O'Dowd

1380 Tym Ger

1358 Anbu Venkatraman

1353 Martin Scott

1346 Max McGuinness

1346 Rohan Megadi-Walia

1331 Cillian McBrien

1312 Diego Joseph Lo Moriello

1304 Riyansh Potru

1297 Seamus Stritch

1278 Vedant Trivedi

1271 Adam Mallett

1259 Piotr Sklym

1248 Sophie O'Connor

1247 Deekshita Dukanam

1246 Ivaan Ghanekar

1245 Patrick Reilly

1234 Anita Atelj Turcin

1218 Erris McCarthy

1161 Addhrit Bhushan

1113 Ganesh Katuri

1092 Sathvika Dukanam

1081 Max McGrail

1027 Senan Prendergast

1020 Ricky Yeung

1012 Saicharan Jaiganesh

965 Siddhant Dhake

847 Niamh Bermingham

840 Eloise Prendergast

781 David Moore

700 Stephen Cashin

400 Jack Finnegan

Aaron Price

Felix Sachin

Advaith Vellore Ramasubramanian

Winson Bi

Ike Ogbuchi

Vladimir Kosynskyy

Cristina Cernat

William O' Reilly

Emir Abiltarov

Joseph Quinn

Sotiris Papadopoulos

Kannadasan Saminathan

Dharnidevi Sooriyanarayanan

Alan Patterson

Niklas Meier

Na Syms