South Court Hotel, Limerick filled with chess players on a bank holiday weekend. Organiser choosed the best hotel with ample space for parking, bar and a Indian restaurant. Spacious hotel for parents to walk around. The tournament started on time.

You can view the results on below link:

Open https://limkopen.icaa.ie/open/

U1400 https://limkopen.icaa.ie/u1400/

The main contenders to lift the Trophy are:

Top seed Vicas Marijus

Star of Gonzaga FM Henry li

Former Champion FM Colm, Daly

The 2018 winner FM Conor O'Donnell enjoying his time at Taj Mahal.

First round went on very well as most of them expected, but Rafael hold on to Tarun for 4 hours but, at the end due to lack of experience Rafael has to surrender and has to accept the defeat. Rafael is cheered up by his Curragh Chess Club mate Micheal. It was the last board to end the first round.

Second round a major upset. Solomatina Jana played an exceptional match against Trisha and made a draw. Jana is 600 FIDE points lower then Trisha rating. Jana proved that rating is just a number. Well done Jana!

Day 2 going to be very hectic. The morning round will decide whether the top seeded Vicas Marijus, continue his lead or not.

In Under 1400 category, it is an interesting to see Father-Son duo winning on Ajay. In the first round Renji Nathan got 3 pawns up made him a clear win on Ajay. Nathan's dad going for a battle against Ajay in the morning round on day2. On the other side Ajay's son Atharva will be playing on second board with 2/2. We have seen book on how to beat dad in chess, but now the time has come that authors to write a book on how to beat son in chess!