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
2383 FM Oleg Artemenko
2369 IM David Fitzsimons
2308 CM Jacob Flynn
2255 CM Shane Melaugh
2231 WGM Shrook Wafa
2230 Oisin O'Cuilleanain
2192 FM Colm Daly
2137 Gavin Melaugh
2105 Lukian Hushpit
2082 CM Will Sidney
2064 Sanjay Menon
2036 Alice O'Gorman
2020 Tallann Maguire
2016 Alwin Micheal
2007 Padraig Hughes
2002 Sean Cummins
1998 Dariy Kelbas
1993 Rudolf Tirziman
1987 Advaith Nichenametla V
1980 WFM Diana Mirza
1965 Yinan Duan
1959 Sreeyan Andhurthi
1953 Emmet Orourke
1945 Niall Fitzgerald
1943 Joshua Ryan
1940 Jacob Nelson
1936 Gerard McIlroy
1931 Oleksii Rai
1929 Vitaliy Salmin
1899 Mihovil Niko Cogelja
1885 Martin Fitzgerald
1881 Finn Cummins
1859 Ayaansh Mulukutla
1837 Rohan Salin
1808 Sean Cullen
1717 Romani Taylor-Hewins
1366 Leo Latorre
1300 Karthik Srikrishna Punuru
1252 Marin Larmagnac
1196 Sanjith Menon
1006 Anvita Ramesh Nair
841 Aadya Sinha
Major(1900-1650) 36 entries
1939 Illia Smoliarenko
1931 Murray Liu
1925 Aiden Thomas Boby
1923 Vivaan Singhal
1909 Angel Mariya Boby
1909 Darshan Choudhury
1898 Saiansh Biswal
1895 Dylan McBrien
1886 Cahit Furkan Sallan
1879 Alexander Kozlov
1857 Darragh Greenan
1856 Clemens Dahmen
1821 Jack Herring
1817 Arsen Hakhumyan
1809 Shane Corry
1808 Marius Antohi
1784 Shaurya Dash
1782 Bjorn Johannesson
1763 Robert Nielsen
1758 Stefan Kolev
1747 Joseph A. McDonnell
1738 Slavko Putar
1729 Thomas Syms
1726 Stefan Baczkowski
1724 Paul Greenan
1718 Adam D. Bermingham
1709 Pat Fitzsimons
1708 Aken Pinitha Palihawadana
1706 Michael Pentony
1691 Eugene Donohoe
1689 Kieran Barry
1670 Jimmy Deneher
1642 Krzysztof Nowak
1638 Dominykas Venskus
1638 Tengle Alvin Su
1527 Pritesh Kumar
Challengers(u1650) 90 entries
1814 Emir Abiltarov
1734 Tara Turcin
1727 Sotiris Papadopoulos
1706 Lorena Putar
1703 Eoin Dunne
1678 Agasthya Kunder
1665 Patrick Hanna
1663 Liam Pentony
1656 Lucas Cunningham Fernandez
1655 Alexandros Sykaras
1636 Sean Pesca
1636 Ronaldo Ozolins
1625 Austin Haoen Gu
1623 Stephen Cashin
1620 Philip Mitchell
1613 Nuoheng Zou
1611 Jayden Amrolan
1602 Karina Chan
1592 Jp Butler
1590 Tony Bregazzi
1583 Alan Patterson
1582 Andrew Conneely
1577 Vladimir Kosynskyy
1571 Adam Courtney
1571 Erica Bermingham
1563 Eamon Peart
1560 Reece Hickey
1537 Cillian McBrien
1536 Sean Bryan
1528 Adhvik Kumar
1528 Nikolai Dimitrov
1523 David Greenan
1516 Frank Pentony
1512 David Moore
1512 Eva Sharma
1511 Edward Donlon
1505 Ike Ogbuchi
1504 Shasini Maniraj
1492 Jamie S. Oconnor
1485 Artem Khrushch
1478 Shrey Bhardwaj
1477 Adhiraj Bhushan
1472 Martin J. Sharry
1470 Joseph Quinn
1464 Shreyansh Duppalapudi
1460 Paul O'Dowd
1452 Daniel Afanasiev Elioutin
1446 James A. Cahill
1429 Danyil Siruk
1427 Adam Mallett
1408 Aaron Price
1386 Rohan Megadi-Walia
1382 Michael Afanasiev Elioutin
1378 Max McGuinness
1371 Conor McMahon
1358 Theo Scanlan Gleeson
1356 Niklas Meier
1353 Martin Scott
1351 Diego Joseph Lo Moriello
1332 Riyansh Potru
1331 Seamus Stritch
1313 Tym Ger
1301 William O'Reilly
1293 Patrick Reilly
1280 Ivaan Ghanekar
1275 Piotr Sklym
1275 Saicharan Jaiganesh
1272 Anbu Venkatraman
1272 Addhrit Bhushan
1252 Deekshita Dukanam
1249 Sophie O'Connor
1241 Erris McCarthy
1208 Vedant Trivedi
1190 Ganesh Katuri
1178 Jack Finnegan
1172 Max McGrail
1154 Sathvika Dukanam
1134 Anita Atelj Turcin
1121 Siddhant Dhake
1118 Advaith Vellore Ramasubramanian
1016 Winson Bi
999 Ricky Yeung
986 Felix Sachin
982 Senan Prendergast
947 Na Syms
922 Dharnidevi Sooriyanarayanan
870 Niamh Bermingham
837 Cristina Cernat
787 Kannadasan Saminathan
767 Eloise Prendergast