Current news in Ulster Chess
Chess champs bring cup to North
Five young Newcastle lads have become all-Ireland chess champions. They swept to victory in the finals of the Community Games chess championships held at Mosney, bringing the cup North for the first time.
Glorney Cup Fund Tournament
While the chess season has not yet fully begun, the second Glorney Cup Fund One-day tournament at Queen’s University Students' Union marked a successful pipe-opener. The big question everyone was asking was how would the Gillen brothers fare after picking up the British Under-12 and Under-13 title in Plymouth
Ulster Chess News
In 1999, as the new millennium approached, David McAlister began to publish the quarterly Ulster Chess News through his personal website. For the next few years, he documented the local chess scene.
Chess Notes by Rookie
Between 1983 and 1990, a weekly column was published in the Irish News with the byline of Rookie
