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 […]
Competitions
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 […]
Candidates Tournament 2018
The event will be held in Berlin, Germany from 8 March (arrivals/opening ceremony) to 29 March 2018 (departures) and the qualifiers are: 1. Sergey Karjakin […]
Club tournament 24th February
We are planning to hold a club tournament on February 24th. Many thanks to Calvin for volunteering help run the event. All are welcome to […]
New Junior chess leagues – Captains sought
We have a notice from Leinster Chess Union as follows The O’Sullivan Cup LCU Junior Club league is open for entries. Teams will consist of 4 players […]