The DCU Open 2026
| Location | The Auditorium, Education Building, St. Patrick's Campus, Drumcondra, DCU |
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| Start date | 2026-02-20 |
| End date | 2026-02-22 |
| Prize fund | €3,000 |
| Sections | Open, Major(1900-1650), Challengers(u1650) |
| Contact | Julia Meza, 0838561667 |
| Pairings URL | s3.chess-results.com/tnr1356869.aspx?lan=1&SNode=S0 |
| livechesscloud.com broadcast URL | view.livechesscloud.com/#642f6615-0e37-4e0f-98f4-304cba30389a |
| Flyer | IV_DCU_CHESS_OPEN.pdf |
| Category | Irish |
| FIDE Rated? | Yes |
| Time Control(s) | Classical |
| Notes | |
Prize winners: https://www.icu.ie/articles/1193 R1 Friday 7pm (All) Side Event: https://www.irish-go.org/2026/01/03/leinster-open-2026/ |
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Entries
Open 42 entries
2375 FM Oleg Artemenko
2365 IM David Fitzsimons
2301 CM Jacob Flynn
2245 CM Shane Melaugh
2226 WGM Shrook Wafa
2194 FM Colm Daly
2194 Oisin O'Cuilleanain
2143 Lukian Hushpit
2108 Gavin Melaugh
2084 CM Will Sidney
2064 Sanjay Menon
2044 Alice O'Gorman
1993 Tallann Maguire
1992 Rudolf Tirziman
1987 Alwin Micheal
1982 Sean Cummins
1981 WFM Diana Mirza
1980 Padraig Hughes
1966 Emmet Orourke
1956 Advaith Nichenametla V
1952 Niall Fitzgerald
1949 Finn Cummins
1948 Oleksii Rai
1945 Dariy Kelbas
1934 Gerard McIlroy
1932 Yinan Duan
1927 Joshua Ryan
1907 Jacob Nelson
1907 Martin Fitzgerald
1907 Sreeyan Andhurthi
1892 Vitaliy Salmin
1863 Mihovil Niko Cogelja
1863 Ayaansh Mulukutla
1835 Sean Cullen
1829 Rohan Salin
1718 Romani Taylor-Hewins
1411 Leo Latorre
1279 Karthik Srikrishna Punuru
1252 Marin Larmagnac
1196 Sanjith Menon
1146 Anvita Ramesh Nair
841 Aadya Sinha
Major(1900-1650) 36 entries
1940 Vivaan Singhal
1917 Illia Smoliarenko
1912 Darshan Choudhury
1889 Darragh Greenan
1886 Cahit Furkan Sallan
1884 Alexander Kozlov
1882 Angel Mariya Boby
1866 Murray Liu
1858 Aiden Thomas Boby
1853 Shaurya Dash
1829 Dylan McBrien
1816 Marius Antohi
1808 Clemens Dahmen
1807 Shane Corry
1801 Slavko Putar
1779 Bjorn Johannesson
1758 Stefan Kolev
1756 Saiansh Biswal
1750 Thomas Syms
1747 Joseph A. McDonnell
1738 Paul Greenan
1737 Stefan Baczkowski
1733 Kieran Barry
1723 Jack Herring
1722 Arsen Hakhumyan
1717 Aken Pinitha Palihawadana
1710 Adam D. Bermingham
1701 Michael Pentony
1699 Eugene Donohoe
1690 Pat Fitzsimons
1689 Krzysztof Nowak
1676 Robert Nielsen
1675 Dominykas Venskus
1642 Jimmy Deneher
1638 Tengle Alvin Su
1467 Pritesh Kumar
Challengers(u1650) 90 entries
1787 Emir Abiltarov
1691 Eoin Dunne
1656 Lucas Cunningham Fernandez
1655 Alexandros Sykaras
1650 Liam Pentony
1629 Jayden Amrolan
1614 Philip Mitchell
1602 Karina Chan
1597 Tony Bregazzi
1588 Jp Butler
1586 Andrew Conneely
1583 Patrick Hanna
1583 Alan Patterson
1573 Nikolai Dimitrov
1564 Adam Courtney
1561 Tara Turcin
1557 Agasthya Kunder
1555 Eamon Peart
1552 David Greenan
1533 Rohan Megadi-Walia
1533 Stephen Cashin
1532 Jamie S. Oconnor
1531 Shreyansh Duppalapudi
1522 Austin Haoen Gu
1517 Edward Donlon
1517 Ronaldo Ozolins
1514 Frank Pentony
1512 David Moore
1511 Shasini Maniraj
1504 Danyil Siruk
1500 Shrey Bhardwaj
1499 Ike Ogbuchi
1497 Vladimir Kosynskyy
1496 Nuoheng Zou
1491 Cillian McBrien
1490 Martin J. Sharry
1484 Erica Bermingham
1480 Reece Hickey
1479 Sean Bryan
1470 Joseph Quinn
1462 James A. Cahill
1460 Paul O'Dowd
1459 Adhiraj Bhushan
1457 Lorena Putar
1454 Artem Khrushch
1444 Eva Sharma
1436 Daniel Afanasiev Elioutin
1424 Theo Scanlan Gleeson
1414 Sean Pesca
1410 Diego Joseph Lo Moriello
1409 Adhvik Kumar
1398 Max McGuinness
1381 Conor McMahon
1368 Michael Afanasiev Elioutin
1368 Martin Scott
1336 Anbu Venkatraman
1331 Tym Ger
1308 Adam Mallett
1300 Riyansh Potru
1284 Deekshita Dukanam
1261 Piotr Sklym
1260 Anita Atelj Turcin
1252 Niklas Meier
1249 Sophie O'Connor
1238 Patrick Reilly
1221 Aaron Price
1215 William O' Reilly
1208 Ivaan Ghanekar
1208 Vedant Trivedi
1203 Erris McCarthy
1178 Jack Finnegan
1170 Seamus Stritch
1167 Addhrit Bhushan
1148 Saicharan Jaiganesh
1132 Max McGrail
1118 Advaith Vellore Ramasubramanian
1115 Siddhant Dhake
1107 Sathvika Dukanam
1104 Ganesh Katuri
1030 Ricky Yeung
1025 Senan Prendergast
1016 Winson Bi
986 Felix Sachin
922 Dharnidevi Sooriyanarayanan
900 Niamh Bermingham
837 Cristina Cernat
828 Eloise Prendergast
787 Kannadasan Saminathan
624 Na Syms
Sotiris Papadopoulos