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The team that finished highest was St. Patricks .. 3rd place was a magnificent achievement indeed, and it was well deserved as these guys had put in the practice over the past two years and have played in ICU rated … Continue reading →

Congratulations to St. Mary’s N.S. Donnybrook who became only the 2nd ever winner of the Cronin Cup. The top teams from the tournament qualified for the semi-fianals. St. Rapheala’s Dublin played against Clairnbridge Galway, the match was a draw 2-2 … Continue reading →

Full results of this w/e’s Ennis chess competition can be found here .. https://www.icu.ie/articles/828 https://www.icu.ie/articles/828 .. congratulations to 12 players from the Glaway coaching squad who played to a really high standard !

Over the w/e there are different events according to players ages .. For full details of all the events go to www.icu.ie/juniors. And … the ICU Chess Festival .. on Sunday 14th April. There’ll be some fun one day competitions … Continue reading →

Took place at the Bridge club on Friday 22nd March. It was a close competition with 9 teams from 4 different schools competing for the title. The eventual winners were Craughwell, who won a play-off game with Scoil Ide to … Continue reading →

The schools finals this year was held again in the Ardilaun Hotel. One significant change from previous years .. the number of players on each team increased from 4 to 8 players. This was a big improvement as bigger school … Continue reading →

Entries are open for this years National Schools finals for mixed teams of 8 players and a separate event for girls teams of 4 players. To register your schools team (and if you’ve any questions) please email brendan@chessossity.com Schools Chess … Continue reading →

More than 20 young players spent their mid-term break developing their first chess openings and begun working on techniques for improving chess thinking skills … 7 more sessions remain between now and May 2019. Thanks to ICU Junior officer, Desmond … Continue reading →