League Captains
The club has two Teams in the Leinster Senior leagues. We need adult volunteers to manage these teams and help organise a small team squad […]
Competitions
Irish Championships – about to start, why not play?
Dear Members, Nothing improves your chess more than playing long time control tournament events. The Irish championships are being held in Dublin next weekend. There […]
Prizes for Playing Slowly in O’Sullivan Cup
Hi, As promised a few weeks ago when we were playing the O’Sullivan Cup games and training there will be prizes of books for the […]
Ancients – Euan and Emily
Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, our reporter was told that the event about to commence was called the “Ancients“, being named so by Mr Euan Bell. In fact […]
LCU Junior Grand Prix Tournament Series Final 2018
Leinster Chess Union – Junior Grand Prix Tournament Series – Final 2018 Blanchardstown Chess club are delighted to host the sixth and final Grand Prix […]
Irish Easter Results – just in
Both Sean McLoughlin and John Delaney represented the club at the top Easter congress hosted by the Irish chess Union over the last few days. […]
Note from Irish Chess Union on Irish events
Information from Irish Chess Union Greetings, The ICU has a number of big events coming up which offer something for everyone. The first of these […]
Coming events and tournament and league news
This is a busy and exciting time for the Chess world! Candidates tournament: Aronian to win?? We will all be able to watch on internet […]
Blanchardstown 6.5 – Bray/Greystones 1.5 Heidenfeld Round 9
Here is the Board 1 game (with a surprise 27th move by Black) from our recent Heidenfeld Match against Bray/Greystones.
Training tournament – April – entries invited
The Chess Club is planning to run an open training tournament (most likely) on a Saturday in April in a local Dublin 15 hotel. (We […]