2015-2016 season
The second of the NICS Alan Burns Grandprix
On February 28th chess players gathered at the Civil Service Social Club a lovely venue with good food followed by an afternoon of intense chess...
At Belfast Cafe Nero Chess players took part in unique international event: Chris Ross Simultaneous
Chris Ross a top Chess player who is blind played a simultaneous chess event. Playing in Collingwood College, Durham University Chris played players from nations including Italy, India, Iran . Ulster was invited to participate and a group of youngsters and club players met in the Cafe Nero to play and enjoy this unique event. The event took part on 29th February 2016.
The monthly Chess continues with March's Childrens Chess
The sequence of monthly tournaments continues. On Saturday March 12th youngsters gathered to play the best game - Chess at Methodist College, Belfast.
Irish Junior Chess Championships 2016
Three of our local juniors recently attended the 2016 Irish Junior Chess Championships in the Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel in Killiney.
BSCC Open 2015/16 - best game prize (post-Christmas)
With this year's Belfast South CC Open drawing to a close, the award for the best game from the second half of the tournament has been presented.
Notification of UCU AGM 2016
The UCU AGM and League Awards will take place on Tuesday 31st May 2016 7:30pm at Ballynafeigh Community Development Centre, Ormeau road, Belfast.
4th Belfast South Open Chess Tournament 2015-16
This year's tournament which has now finished attracted a total of 28 entries from a number of Clubs and was played over 20 weeks from November to April. It was particularly encouraging that more than half the entrants played over and above the minimum number of 10 games required to qualify for prizes. As players ratings ranged from 900 to 1737, 2 grading bands were created at "under 1400 " and " over 1400" and players were paired within their band with a grading prize for each section in addition to prizes for the overall best percentage score and runner-up in the tournament . There was also 2 Best Game prizes which were published by the UCU. Prize winners were : Overall winner: Brendan Jamison ( Ballynafeigh ) with 77% Runner- Up : Ian Woodfield ( Queen's University) and Martin Kelly ( Belfast South) with 67% Grading prize : Paddy Magee ( Mallusk) Best Game Prizes : Brendan Jamison and Paddy Magee
The 3rd tournament in the Alan Burns Series
The 2016 Alan Burns tournaments continues with a Lacksadasical five rounds of 20mins and an increment of 5 secs
Aprils Childrens Chess
An exciting finish to the Childrens Chess. With the last game played deciding who would win the Grandprix Upper Secondary Schools Shield.....
Exciting News The Eglantine Summer Tournament Starts
Players gathered at The Bankers Club to play the first night of the Summer Tournament - a marathon of a tournament stretching over some 20 Wednesdays. Who would be playing....
A full house for the 2nd round of the Eglantine Summer Tournament
Only the second round and there was an overflow into the bar. Every board was used in the main room...
Board Prize Winners
Board prize winners for all 3 divisions 2015/2016
Comórtas Fichille Chúige Uladh 2016
Teams from Limavady came first and second in this tournament for Irish-language primary schools.
Nemtzov Shock as Rush's Hour is Realised
Stephen Rush of Qub lands the spoils in the Nemtzov Cup and John McKenna finally lands the evasive Henderson Cup
The 4th Alan Burns Intense and Grandprix award
The series of Alan Burns Intense/Lacksidasicals finished today 5th June 2016 with some exciting games and the awarding of this years grand-prix.
Top young players meet at Methodist College for Northern Ireland Mega-finals
The Delancey UK Chess Challenge is the largest Schools Chess tournament in the UK with some 74,000 children competing. There are four stages - the first is small tournaments in Schools. Qualifying players then play in the Mega-finals. There are 41 mega-finals of which Belfast hosts one. Who played and who qualified for the next stage at the Giga-finals...
Cathal Murphy, Danny Mallaghan, Cecil Sloane off to the US to play chess
An opportunity to play the most brilliant of games and have a holiday and meet new players, travel and potentially win money. Hopefully they'll come back wealthier and with a story to tell....
Top Young Chess players compete at Stormont
On June 10th Chris Lyttle MLA invited the top chess talent to Stormont for an Elite tournament. The end of the chess year marks the awards for the Grandprix tournament run as part of the monthly Childrens Chess tournaments.
Over half-way through the Summer Tournament - how do we stand?
Eleven weeks of excellent chess - whos winning? whos close to meeting the minimum 10 weeks ... We have 9 rounds left, so lots could happen.
