ICU NEW YEAR FESTIVAL 2026 - OPEN AND 50/65 IRISH CHAMPIONSHIPS

Location Stillorgan Talbot Hotel, Dublin
Start date 2026-01-01
End date 2026-01-04
Sections Open, 50+, 65+
Contact Ivan Baburin
Event website s1.chess-results.com/Tnr1326640.aspx?lan=1&SNode=S0
livechesscloud.com broadcast URL view.livechesscloud.com/#251d2844-9834-47dc-a8a9-cb6d6f3de702
lichess.org broadcast URL lichess.org/broadcast/the-irish-50-and-65-championships-and-new-year-open-events-2026/round-2/91crQ5Rw#boards
Category Irish
FIDE Rated? Yes
Time Control(s) Classical
Notes

Rounds at 10am/3pm each day, with round 1 at 6:30pm.

More details to follow.

Entries

Open 40 entries

2255 CM Shane Melaugh

2192 FM Colm Daly

2172 Pratik Mulay

2088 FM Gordon Freeman

2046 Harry Braine

2036 Alice O'Gorman

2028 Conor Sheehan

2007 Padraig Hughes

1993 Rudolf Tirziman

1971 Mark McGrath

1968 Lorcan Heron

1960 Brian Gallagher

1957 Fiachra Moore

1931 Murray Liu

1923 Vivaan Singhal

1920 Alex Goss

1909 Darshan Choudhury

1879 Sitki Fatih Karacol

1865 Seth McGrady

1857 Darragh Greenan

1821 Indrajit Desai

1815 Ciaran O'Reilly

1771 Eoin Scully

1763 Joe O'Hanlon

1720 Liam O'Daly

1674 Sean Slevin

1669 Edgar Manuel Cavaco Afonso

1665 Patrick Hanna

1659 Alan Lane

1636 David Lynch

1574 Prisha Gupta

1550 Conor Lynch

1539 Kevin Fitzpatrick

1523 David Greenan

1472 Martin J. Sharry

1452 Daniel Afanasiev Elioutin

1382 Michael Afanasiev Elioutin

1272 Martin Schranz

1190 Ganesh Katuri

700 Fionn Lynch

50+ 11 entries

2480 GM Keith C. Arkell

2163 Jonathan O'Connor

1868 Anthony Fox

1854 Vjekoslav Novak

1811 Shahram Nikrow

1808 Derek O'Byrne

1767 Fred Armstrong

1748 Brian O'Gorman

1747 Joseph A. McDonnell

1709 Pat Fitzsimons

1670 Jimmy Deneher

65+ 26 entries

2008 CM Tim Harding

2006 Gerard O'Connell

1977 CM Gerard MacElligott

1960 Joe Noone

1927 Ciaran Quinn

1880 Bernard Boyle

1854 John Loughran

1847 NM Eamon Keogh

1846 Pat Reynolds

1835 Jim Murray

1827 Tony Bermingham

1768 Brian Moore

1767 Art Coldrick

1754 Noel Quinn

1692 Maurice Buckley

1691 Eugene Donohoe

1689 Michael Burniston

1665 Niall P. Whelan

1665 Peter J. Lynch

1641 Jasvinderpal Singh

1562 Tom O'Sullivan

1560 Shay Scott

1531 Chris Ducker

1528 Nikolai Dimitrov

1431 Sean Reinhardt

1344 Ronan Rigney