Funny title for a Blanchardstown Chess Club match against the league leaders Elm Mount but please bear with the Scribe....he's losing it!! Our match started badly as the Dinosaur charged towards the late-coming Pat Fitzsimons....missing him completely...crashing into the wall. Ouch!!...not that anyone noticed, as their games were underway. After praising the Elm Mount consistency in the preview....they changed their board Order to maximise their chances of winning. [ 313 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/all-roads-lead-to-ratoath/

Dear Members The club at the Annual General meeting agreed to continue for one year the policy of subscribing our members into the Irish Chess Union and to deal with the administration involved for our players. Please note that the renewal of ICU memberships process is currently underway, This is expected to take a few days. You should see your membership renewed or a new subscription show on the ICU website (www.icu.ie) shortly. [ 35 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/irish-chess-union-club-member-renewals-and-new-subscriptions/

Congratulations to Alex Babin, Richard, Sargis, Andrew and Tomasz on winning through with 100% scores in GP2. We were very grateful for Rudolf Tirziman for running the event, with Sean McLoughlin overviewing and coaching players as game results arrived. Margaret and Mariada acted as controllers. As a seasoned tournament observer, I can add that what was remarkable was that the event was run by hand, which involves a lot of complicated pairing and scoring tasks behind the scenes that take time. [ 83 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/grand-prix-2-november-11th-2/

On Monday night, the O'Hanlon squad travel to Elm Mount to face the Top of the table pacesetters. We will definitely be out-rated on all the boards. They have an outstanding team from 1-6, and are so strong that they have not needed to alter their line-up at all. If consistency is a measure of Class, then they have it in Spades. [ 204 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/ohanlon-match-preview/

Reminder: This reminder is especially for players on our Leinster league teams. If you have not done so, please complete the club membership form and pay your membership fee. The club wishes to enroll our members in ICU as soon as possible. The club will pay this ICU fee for you but we need complete and up to date membership forms and your full membership payment to be received. [ 94 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/club-membership-reminder/

The National Art Gallery recently hosted a collection of the famous Dutch Artist Vermeer earlier this year...........and tonight saw the unveiling of Blanchardstown's own in Dutch artist Randolf Bruin. Returning to play for our struggling O'Hanlon team, Randolf set up a Masterly break in the centre, taking full advantage of a slight inaccuracy by the University's top player to power his way to a very smooth win......see below. [ 364 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/our-own-vermeer/

Dear Juniors We are planning to run a 5 minute tournament on November 11th. This is a part of the sequence of fast time control events we hold at the end of each month. Please attend early if possible to allow a prompt start at 4pm! Dear Parents It would also be great if parents could help to run the event next Saturday. [ 71 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/grand-prix-2-november-11th/

Yep...the Juniors were back and in large numbers. Nothing like a whole heap of kids, a few Adults and a lot of chess pieces with boards to play on. John, the Great Delegator decided to arrange a new set up with himself, Rudolf and Sean coaching small groups of the more advanced Juniors around small tables away from the main noisy hub. [ 156 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/chaotic-coolmine/

Please note that the main Leinster Team event for juniors of the year will be held in Drumcondra on Sunday 10th December, with a start time of 10.30am. ("Mick Germaine Cup") The club would like to enter as many teams as possible but at present we are limited by a lack of parents to manage teams on the day. Request for parents to volunteer… [ 123 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/call-for-volunteers-parents-to-manage-mick-germaine-teams-december-10th/

On Monday, we play our 2nd Match against the Top 3 when the University come to town. This may very well be the toughest match of the year as the University have strengthened their team with the inclusion of CM Tim Harding and Junior Internationalist Anastasia Mihailjovic. Even at this early stage, they are motoring through the league, having demolished high flying Drogheda just last week.....and that was with a weaker team than normal. [ 83 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/back-to-school-preview/

Junior Coaching Dates - full season (by coaching group) NB: all changes will be notified on the Website if and when these arise. It therefore makes sense to check the website in the days before coaching is scheduled. https://blanchardstownchess.com/junior-coaching-full-season-dates-for-each-coaching-group/

Coaching for November 4th is as follows: November Saturday 4 November 2017 4pm 4.30pm Junior Coaching session Coolmine Community School Albatross Sean November Saturday 4 November 2017 4pm 4.30pm Junior Coaching session Coolmine Community School Badgers Rudolf November Saturday 4 November 2017 4pm 4.30pm Junior Coaching session Coolmine Community School Caterpillars [ 43 more words ] https://blanchardstownchess.com/planned-junior-coaching-dates-november-4th/