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.

Fingal Open Ch. incl. SCC Championships, Sections A - H

Tue 06 Jan 2026 - Tue 10 Mar 2026 , 5 rounds (provisionally)

90 mins + 30 sec/move (Sec A), Lower sections: 75 + 30, 60 + 30, 45 + 30 depending on ratings. Different time controls if both players agree to adjourn.

Availability - enter or change your availability.

Players - their availability.

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

Details of 5 round FIDE, ICU and SCC rated all-play-all tournament in 9 sections, with Coaching sessions between rounds, to be arranged. Open to all ICU and SCC members.

Live games

Prizes

1st, 2nd, 3rd place engraved medals or plaques in each section. Fingal Open Perpetual Cup for Sec A winner. Cups for Skerries Club Champion and Skerries U18 Girls and Boys Champions.

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.

Prize winners

U16 1st Peadar Sherlock 4½ C.G. Gold medal
U16 2nd Mac O’Brien 4 C.G. Silver medal
U16 3rd Aarathya Muthu Thirupathi 3½ SCC Bronze medal
U16 4th Finn Delaney 3 SCC 4th place medal
U13 1st James Sweetman 4½ SCC Gold medal
U13 1st Kyle Aoki 4 C.G. Gold medal
U13 2nd Tom Tyndall 3½ C.G. Silver medal
U13 3rd Ignacio J Masterson Santamaria 2 C.G. Bronze medal
U13 4th Jack Coughlan 2 C.G. 4th place medal
U11 1st Joshua Monaghan 3½ SCC Gold medal
U11 1st Rory Coughlan 2½ C.G. Gold medal
U11 2nd Kody McLaughlin 2 C.G. Silver medal
U11 3rd Kit McKean 1 C.G. Bronze medal
U11 4th Joseph Loreille O C.G. 4th place medal