North Kildare Junior Chess Club

Last Sunday 7th May saw a Junior Chess tournament in Stillorgan. Congratulations to Aarush who won the Challenger section trophy and to Pratyush who won Minor section trophy.

The club will be holding it’s first AGM on Wednesday 17th May in the Kilcock Scout Den, at 7.30pm (Following normal junior club).  All members and their parents are encouraged to attend. Tea, coffee and cake will be provided. The club has been operating with a provisional committee and constitution unto now and we would … More Annual General Meeting – 17th May

The O’Connell Cup and the Philip Hogarty Rising Stars tournaments take place in ALSAA on May 28th. This is a team event fro teams of 4 junior club players. We will be assembling teams of interested players in the coming weeks. Please email us if your interested in taking part. O’Connell Cup is for players … More Philip Hogarty Rising Stars Team Tournament

The 3rd and final Leinster Chess Union  Grand Prix tournament is on this Sunday ( April 23rd), you can enter using  this link on the Blanchardstown Chess Club website. The venue is the: Carlton Dublin Airport Hotel, Old Airport Road, Cloghran, K67P5C7, Dublin (MAP) Online entries are will close at midnight Saturday 22nd April. Entries on the day … More LCU Grand Prix 3 April 23rd

The Leinster Chess Union selected our very own Darius Rezania and  Darragh Comey to play on the North Dublin Team in a tournament against a junior chess  team from Germany (Berlin) this  week. The LCU  selected 3 representative teams, of 17 players each, being  North Dublin, South Dublin and Leinster, to play  a group of German junior players from various Berlin junior clubs. Darragh … More Leinster Vs. Berlin

Just a reminder we’re not meeting tonight or next week due to Easter holidays. Next meeting will be 26th of April .

An excellent performance and great learning experience for all our members who competed in the Irish Junior championships in Sligo this weekend.   The final round in the competition saw our two most experienced players, Darrius and Darragh, go head to head in a 77 move epic battle. Darius came out on top and performed … More Irish Junior Chess Championship Update

This weekend 4 of our members are heading to the Irish Junior Championship in Sligo. You can follow Darragh, Darrius, Cillian and Niamh’s Progress here: Irish Junior Chess Championship 2017 U10 Irish Junior Chess Championship 2017 U12 Irish Junior Chess Championship 2017 U8 Best of luck to everybody taking part!!! If anybody else in the club is … More Irish Junior Championship 2017

Last Wednesday’s club tournament was a good practice run for this weekend’s Leinster Chess Union Grand Prix tournament. Darius Rezania was the overall winner on a perfect 5/5,  Cillian Comey was the runner up on 4/5, his only loss against the winner in round two. Hartik Tadisetti took 3rd place (by computer tie-break) on equal points with Eoin Spence and David … More Club Tournament Results

Check out this week’s Liffey Champion to see an Article about our new club. Some nice pictures from the tournament are included.