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.

Blitz Club Championships Open

Tue 12 May 2026 - Tue 12 May 2026 , 7 rounds (provisionally)

3 mins + 2 sec/move from move 1.

Availability - enter or change your availability.

Players - their availability.

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

7 rounds on one club night. One large Swiss Open event so you get to play people you do not usually play. For fun, not rated. Medals for best in each rating band.

Prizes

Medals engraved. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and provisionally for top scorer rated U1500, U1300, U1200, U1100, U1000, depending on entries.

Rapid Club Championships Open and Rating limited sections

Tue 21 Apr 2026 - Tue 05 May 2026 , 6 rounds (provisionally)

15 mins + 10 sec/move or as agreed, longer times for seniors e.g. 25 + 10.

Availability - enter or change your availability.

Players - their availability.

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

6 rounds over 3 weeks. Swiss tournament in two or three sections. Open to full members. Players may get up to three byes as long as they are requested before pairings done, by entering availability.

Prizes

Prizes within each rating band for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Prize winners

1st John Loughran 6
2nd Adam Scanlon 4
3rd Paul Ryan 2½
U1550 1st Kieran Howley 1½
U1400 1st Peadar Sherlock 5
U1400 2nd Finn Delaney 4½
U1400 3rd Hariharan Praveen 4
U1200 1st Paddy Urbanski 3
U1200 2nd Willow Monaghan 2

Fingal Open Ch. incl. SCC Championships, Sections A - H Tue 06 Jan 2026 - Tue 10 Mar 2026

Community Games Skerries Finals U16, U13, U11 Tue 04 Nov 2025 - Tue 09 Dec 2025

Turkey Open Tue 04 Nov 2025 - Tue 16 Dec 2025

Autumn Open, Cormorants & Seagulls Tue 09 Sep 2025 - Tue 21 Oct 2025

Simultaneous Exhibition by David Fitzsimons IM Tue 03 Jun 2025 - Tue 03 Jun 2025

Blitz Club Championships in Sections Tue 27 May 2025 - Tue 27 May 2025

Rapid Club Championships Open and Rating limited sections Tue 29 Apr 2025 - Tue 06 May 2025

Parents and Adult Beginners Open Tue 01 Apr 2025 - Thu 26 Jun 2025

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

Tue 07 Jan 2025 - Tue 18 Mar 2025 , 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 & Report on 5 round FIDE, ICU and SCC rated all-play-all tournament in 9 sections, with Coaching sessions between rounds, see Learn page.

Three boards Live and on lichess. Open to all ICU and SCC members.

Prizes

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

Prize winners

1st John Loughran 3½
=2nd David Fitzsimons 3
=2nd Jack Herring 3
3rd Pat Fitzsimons 2½
U1740 1st Miguel Silveiro 3½
U1740 2nd Paul Ryan 3
U1740 =3rd David O’Leary 2½
U1740 =3rd Rory Clarke 2½
U1550 1st Rajiv Gicale 4½
U1550 2nd Donnacha Lenehan 3½
U1550 3rd Sean Conor O’Neill 2½
U1450 1st Yuvan Pradeep Kumar 4½
U1450 2nd Yuri Gaspar 3½
U1450 3rd Ethan Gicale 2½
U1400 =1st Adam Gicale 4
U1400 =1st David Craig 4
U1400 3rd Neel Raparthi 3
U1360 =1st Adam Florczak 4
U1360 =1st Adhisya Muthu Thirupathi 4
U1360 3rd James Sweetman 2
U1260 1st Tomasz Florczak 4
U1260 2nd Thomas Murray 3
U1260 3rd Shamsa Shahid 2
U1250 1st Michael Daly 4
U1250 =2nd Darragh Costello 3½
U1250 =2nd Tom Tyndall 3½
U1080 1st Joshua Monaghan 5
U1080 =2nd Jack Guildea 3
U1080 =2nd Willow Monaghan 3