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

Turkey Open Tue 04 Nov 2025 - Tue 16 Dec 2025

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