Tournaments

Games from live boards in tournaments >> or leagues

icu.ie/events - For tournaments in Ireland and abroad see the ICU Calendar.
Free entry to club events for members until the club night before each event. After that a late entry fee of €10 applies.
Players who do not show up for a game without warning are excluded and must pay a €10 no show fee before they can play again in that or subsequent events.

Community Games Skerries Finals U16, U13, U11

Tue 04 Nov 2025 - Tue 09 Dec 2025 , 6 rounds (provisionally)

25 mins + 10 sec/move , or as agreed, to allow younger players to leave early

Availability - enter or change your availability.

Players - their availability.

Fixtures - Pairings, results, standings. Choose section and round number.

Entry Fee €5 by 8 pm on Mon 3 Nov (or €20 after that if space allows), free for members by 8 pm on Mon 3 Nov, €10 after that. Open to members and non members under 16 on the 31st July next year, with an address in the Skerries area. For the competition duration players will become members of Skerries Chess Club. They must Login and do Join > Apply/Try out on the website, as explained on the Join > Membership page. The tournament will be used to select players to represent Skerries on the U16, U13 and U11 teams in the Community Games Dublin Finals next spring. See Team > Junior for last year's Dublin finals. Non-Skerries residents who are members already may enter but not represent Skerries later, except as playing subs.

Prizes

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th CG medals in U16, U13, U11 age groups, with SCC medals for non-residents of Skerries.

Turkey Open

Tue 04 Nov 2025 - Tue 16 Dec 2025 , 6 rounds (provisionally)

75 mins + 30 sec/move , or as agreed, to allow juniors to leave earlier.

Availability - enter or change your availability.

Players - their availability.

Fixtures - Pairings, results, standings. Choose section and round number.

Open to all members. May be two sections if sufficient entries.

Prizes

€25, €15, €10 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Grading Prizes for U1500 of €15, €10 and €10.

Autumn Open, Cormorants & Seagulls

Tue 09 Sep 2025 - Tue 21 Oct 2025 , 6 rounds (provisionally)

60 mins + 30 sec/move (Open), 30+30 (Cormorants), 25+10 (Seagulls) or as agreed, to allow juniors or parents to leave early

Availability - enter or change your availability.

Players - their availability.

Fixtures - Pairings, results, standings. Choose section and round number.

Only members are paired (see Join).

Prizes

1st, 2nd, 3rd overall in each section, with some grading prizes within sections under certain ratings.
Sections finally were Open (unlimited rating, with one Grading Prize for U1550), Cormorants (U1530 below, with one Grading Prize for U1430), Seagulls (U1300 below).

Prize winners

1st John Loughran 4½
2nd Kieran Howley 3
3rd Grzegorz Pawlowski 2½
U1550 1st Adam Gicale 2½
U1530 =1st Yuri Gaspar 4½
U1530 =1st Neel Raparthi 4½
U1530 3rd Adhisya Muthu Thirupathi 3½
U1430 1st James Sweetman 2½
U1300 1st Kyle Aoki 5
U1300 2nd Finn Delaney 3
U1300 =3rd Willow Monaghan 2½
U1300 =3rd Paddy Urbanski 2½