Armstrong Cup Team lost 4.5-3.5 to Dublin Chess Club.
Armstrong Cup Team also lost 4.5-3.5 to Dun Laoghaire
Heidenfeld Trophy Team lost 6-2 to the Curragh
2014 Mick Germaine Cup
“The Leinster Chess Union (LCU) is pleased to announce that this year’s Mick Germaine Cup competition will take place on Saturday 11th October 2014 in the Ierne Sports and Social Club, Gracepark Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, home of the Elm Mount Chess Club. The event is for teams of beginners/novices. Players must be under the age of 16 on 1 September 2014. Entries to Pat Fitzsimons, at mastergame100@hotmail.com. click here for further details”.
Back to Two Club Nights a week
Summer time ends! – so back to two club nights a week – Monday and Thursdays
Summer Competition Final Standings
Final placing’s for Summer competition
1 Butler, Kevin C. 1918 5.5 14.0 21.5 20.5
2 Scarry, Herbert 1785 4.5 13.0 20.5 16.0
3-6 Duffy, Anthony 1598 3.5 13.0 21.0 15.0
Gilmer, Noel C. 1350 3.5 12.5 20.0 11.5
Duffy, Noel 1439 3.5 12.5 19.5 12.5
Germaine, Michael 1425 3.5 10.5 17.5 11.0
7-8 Leggett, Robert 956 3 11.5 16.5 10.0
Jackson, Peter C. 1322 3 9.0 16.0 8.5
9-10 Murray, Val 1093 2.5 11.5 18.0 10.0
Dyer, Mick 1200 2.5 10.0 15.0 6.0
11-12 Martin, Edward A. 1322 2 11.5 17.5 5.5
Sweeney, Jim 1127 2 11.5 16.5 9.0
13-14 Byrne, Brendan 1159 1.5 11.0 16.0 4.5
Dalton, David 1.5 10.5 15.5 7.0
Summer Competition Final Round
Final Round Summer Competition
1. Gilmer, Noel C.[3] : Butler, Kevin C.[5]
2. Scarry, Herbert[3.5] : Duffy, Anthony[3.5]
3. Jackson, Peter C.[2.5] : Duffy, Noel[3]
4. Germaine, Michael[2.5] : Byrne, Brendan[1.5]
5. Martin, Edward A.[1.5] : Murray, Val[2]
6. Sweeney, Jim[2] : Dyer, Mick[1.5]
7. Leggett, Robert[2] : Dalton, David[1.5]
Matches to be played on Monday 25th August.
Summer Competition Round 5 Draw
Round 5 Draw
1 Butler, Kevin C. [4] : Germaine, Michael [2.5]
2 Duffy, Noel [2.5] : Scarry, Herbert [3]
3 Murray, Val [2] : Duffy, Anthony [2.5]
4 Gilmer, Noel C. [2] : Sweeney, Jim [2]
5 Dalton, David [1.5] : Jackson, Peter C. [1.5]
6 Dyer, Mick [1] : Leggett, Robert [1.5]
7 Byrne, Brendan [1] : Martin, Edward A. [1]
Letter from Bono on meeting Garry Kasparov (Kasparov2014)
Letter from U2’s Bono on Chess and Meeting Garry Kasparov
Thinking ahead, thinking around corners, guessing somebody else’s next move… these were the pleasures of chess for me… my greatest childhood pleasure. In Ballymun we had a chess club, like so many kids at the beginning of the 70s, I fell head over heels for this dizzy strategic game. I have fond memories of the Phisboro club also where myself and my friend Joseph Marks were let play with the grown ups.
Part of our passion was to study the great masters. Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky were virtual pop stars at the time. Everybody knew them. Anatoly Karpov, the Russian grand master, was my favourite. Later, Garry Kasparov would unseat him in my own mind as the best of the best. I admired his nagging intellect. I still do. He continues to ask the most difficult questions about the world, about Russia, human rights, the injustice of extreme poverty. He is passionate about teaching the game of chess to children. Not just because of its role in exercising the brain, but because of the confidence it gives kids in thinking through the future. And his belief that that future can be better than the one presently on the board.
I met the great man recently in Dublin, and heard he was running for President of FIDE. I can’t think of a more luminous mind to take that position. I became a child again in his company. I badgered him about the titanic match of 1984 between himself and Karpov – while all he wanted to talk about was Ireland and sub-Saharan Africa. Looking back, the arrival of puberty and learning to play the guitar may have hampered my dexterity in the game. It is not like riding a bike, I have recently discovered. But sitting there in the Clarence across the table from Garry Kasparov, inside my head I found myself rattling through my game-plan, my opening strategy, and calculating just how many moves I could hold out before his check-mate. Three.
Bono, 2014
Summer Competition Round 4 Draw
Please note with 4 players unable to play on Thursday night I have moved the fixture to Monday night 11th August.
Boards 1 to 3 will be played on Monday 11th.
All the other 4 games can be played on Thursday 7th if it suits.
Round 4 Draw.
1 Duffy, Anthony [2.5] : Butler, Kevin C. [3]
2 Scarry, Herbert [2] : Gilmer, Noel C. [2]
3 Duffy, Noel [1.5] : Dalton, David [1.5]
4 Leggett, Robert [1.5] : Germaine, Michael [1.5]
5 Sweeney, Jim [1.5] : Murray, Val [1.5]
6 Jackson, Peter C. [1] : Martin, Edward A. [.5]
7 Dyer, Mick [.5] : Byrne, Brendan [.5]
Summer Competition Round 3 Draw
Round 3 draw for Monday 28th July, the best of luck to everyone.
1 Butler, Kevin C. [2] : Scarry, Herbert [2]
2 Duffy, Anthony [2] : Duffy, Noel [1]
3 Dalton, David [1] : Sweeney, Jim [1]
4 Murray, Val [1] : Leggett, Robert [1]
5 Martin, Edward A. [.5] : Gilmer, Noel C. [1]
6 Germaine, Michael [.5] : Dyer, Mick [.5]
7 Jackson, Peter C. [.5] : Byrne, Brendan [0]
Summer Competition Round 2
Round 2.
1 Duffy, Noel [1] : Butler, Kevin C. [1]
2 Scarry, Herbert [1] : Murray, Val [1]
3 Leggett, Robert [1] : Duffy, Anthony [1]
4 Gilmer, Noel C. [0] : Germaine, Michael [.5]
5 Sweeney, Jim [.5] : Jackson, Peter C. [0]
6 Dyer, Mick [0] : Martin, Edward A. [0]
7 Byrne, Brendan [0] 1:0 BYE