With the relaxation in COVID restrictions John Cassidy is organising an over-the-board open tournament in the West County Hotel Ennis in November. The tournament will consist of 5 rounds played from November 12th to November 14th. Round 1 will be played on the 12th, with 2 rounds on each of the following days. Entry is limited to 50 people so contact John on 0872495913 soon if you want to enter.
August 9, 2021
Heidenfeld wins the 100th Irish Championships
Congratulations to Mark Heidenfeld on winning the 100th anniversary edition of the Irish senior championships in what was quite a strong field. It’s Marks second time winning the Irish championship, so he still has a way to go to emulate his father Wolfgang who was an 8-time championships winner. Although winning the 100th anniversary tournament is probably worth at least a few regular ones!
July 22, 2021
100th Irish Chess Championships
The 100th edition of the Irish Chess Championships starts at the end of this month in Dublin and the first weekender is this weekend! COVID precautions will be in place and entry is limited to 48 players currently. Full details at www.icu.ie
July 11, 2021
Results of June Junior Tournament
Well done to Tadhg Holland who won last months Junior tournament which took place on lichess. Full results at https://lichess.org/tournament/o8mCafFg
June 26, 2021
Galway Rapidplay Results
The Galway rapidplay took place last weekend and was won by Adam Collins on 7 out of 7. Ross de Bruin finished in fourth just missing out on third place on tiebreak. Mike O’Donnell finished sixth. Full results at https://lichess.org/swiss/Dsugo4wr
May 29, 2021
Upcoming junior tournament 12th June
Lukasz Daros has been in touch to say that although Community Games chess won’t be going ahead this year, a tournament just for juniors is being organised on lichess. This competition will take place on the 12th June and will be a 1 hour long arena type tournament with a time control of 5 minutes each with 1 second increment per move. The tournament is open to all U18 members of Ennis Chess Club lichess team and can be joined at the Clare Junior Arena site on lichess.
Other upcoming tournamnets include the Galway Rapidplay which takes place online on the 19th June and The 100th Irish Chess Championship which takes place in Colaiste Eanna, Rathfarnham from the 31st July to 8th August.
May 18, 2021
Ennis Congress Results
124 players entered the Ennis Congress 2021 which took place on lichess last weekend. Yours truly won the event on 9 out of 9, a score with which I was quite happy! Gavin Sheahan won the Marcel Castricum Cup. Full details of games, results and standings are on the Ennis Congress site on lichess while you can view live coverage of some of the games at Blair Connells Twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/blairchess
Well done to all involved in organising the tournament and in particular Aaron Daly who made sure everything ran smoothly on the day. A summary of results is below.
Overall Results – Jim Hussey Cup
- First: Rory Quinn 9
- Second: Oisin O’Cuilleanin 7.5
- Third: Jacob Flynn 7
Best Juniors
- First: Wenlie Liu 7
- Second: Trisha Kanyamarala WIM 6.5
- Third: Jason Liu 6.5
Best Female Player: Lara Putar 5.5
Grading Bands
- 1800+ Adam Collins 6
- 1600-1800 Gabriel Matthews 7
- 1400-1600 Peter Koller 6
- 1200-1400 Aidan Coll 5.5
- 1000-1200 David Cunningham 5.5
- 800-1000 James Scarry 5
- 0-800 Christopher Woods 5
- Best unrated George Stack 6
- Best unrated Female Nemhain Doolin 3.5
- Best unrated Junior Anuar Turashbayev 5
Results Marcel Castricum Cup
- First: Gavin Sheahan 6.5
- Second: Ben Sheahan 6.5
- Third: Adam McCoy 6
If you missed the tournament and want to catch up on some of the action, go to Blair Connells twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/blairchess where you can view recordings of the excellent live streaming of the event. At one point, Blair was joined by the Ginger GM himself, Simon Williams, where aswell as covering the Ennis Congress, they also looked at some of the content in Simon and Richard Pallisers new Grandmaster Gambits course https://www.chessable.com/grandmaster-gambits-1-e4/course/59936/
May 13, 2021
Ennis Chess Congress 2021
This years Ennis Chess Congress takes place this weekend. This event will take place online. Instead of a 6 round event over 3 days played at a classical time control, the 2021 version will be a 9 round rapidplay with rounds on Saturday evening and Sunday. The tournament is taking place on lichess and entry is free. All the details including how to enter are at https://lichess.org/team/ennis-chess-congress.
If you can’t play in the tournament itself, you can still follow the event live online as there will be a lichess broadcast of the tournament at https://lichess.org/broadcast/ennis-chess-congress-2021/round-1-saturday–5pm/CyoT4Q4k
April 29, 2021
King wins club league
Well done to Cathal King who won the 2021 Ennis chess club league. The league took place online this year and there were 27 participants. Cathal went through the tournament undefeated scoring 6.5 points from 7. Yours truly came second on 6 out of 7. There was a tie from 3rd through to 7th with Paul Dowdall, George Stack, Dylan Murphy, Nick Larter and Phil Timlin (who withdrew after 6 rounds) all on 4.5 points. Full final results and standings are attached.
April 29, 2021
Round 7 Results
Results of Round 7 are below.
No Name Total Result Name Total 1 Larter, N [4.5] 0:1 King, C [5.5] 2 Coughlan, C [4] 0:1 Quinn, R [5] 3 Stack, G [4] .5:.5 Murphy, D [4] 4 Dowdall, P [3.5] 1:0 Hehir, S [3.5] 5 O'Brien, K [3.5] .5:.5 O'Sullivan, J [3.5] 6 Koller, P [3] .5:.5 Cassidy, J [3] 7 Holland, T [3] 1:0 McNulty, B [3] 8 Daly, A [3] 0:1 Daros, L [3] 9 Coll, A [3] 1:0 Casey, G [2.5] 10 Rochford, J [2] .5:.5 McGorrian, C [2] 11 Rochford, A [1.5] 0:1 Nolan, B [2] 12 Joyce, M [1] 0:1 Rynne, L [1.5]
