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.

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/

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