Contributors

Ulster Chess News

Drew Ferguson — 2019-06-06T14:26:18Z

David offered to transfer content from these articles to the Chronicles and has generously taken considerable pains to ensure his original content is presented in a style more appropriate to our new way of doing things.

The content is just as it was but presentation is considerably different with each quarter's reporting deconstructed into individual articles on tournaments and other events. Styling has also been adapted to match the look-and-feel of the UCU site rather than the original which reflected the rather spartan look of the Internet back-in-the-day.

These quarterly reports were about the only record of events at that time. When the UCU Website first started, it could not host the quality articles David was preparing. Over the years, facilities on this website have improved and gradually the recording and reporting of events has been focused here; as a result David's energy's were directed elsewhere and issues of the Ulster Chess News became more sporadic until they stopped altogether in early 2012.

David continues to research and document aspects of the Ulster Chess Union in his always perceptive blog Ulster Chess Chronicle. Documenting the history of Irish chess has always been a favourite subject and his own Irish Chess History site and his postings to the more general Irish chess history & records website IRLchess are always fascinating reads.

Annual catalogue

All UCN Entries
All UCN Games

Chess Notes by Rookie

Drew Ferguson — 2021-10-25T11:26:20Z

Rookie, in real life the irrepressible Martin Kelly, published over 300 of his chess columns in the Irish Press. Fortunately for us, we have been able to gather cuttings of his column and add them to our archive including the regular game posted along with each issue. Usually these games were from local competitions giving us a unique insight into Ulster chess of the 80's.

During these years, Martin honed his Extreme Punning skills to grandmaster level; these days his weekly reports of Belfast South's League Results - some of which have crept on to this site - often have a pun-count in double-figures.

Additional material appeared sporadically in various local papers over the same period and some of these - usually with photos - have also been recovered and will be appearing here soon. These include Ireland's Saturday Night (the Pink), Belfast Newsletter, Belfast Telegraph, The Down Recorder, Andersonstown News and the County Down Spectator.

Indexes

Reports are listed in each seasons archive but you can access Rookie specific items from the following lists:

Annual (season) postings

1982-1983
1983-1984
1984-1985
1985-1986
1986-1987
1987-1988
1988-1989
1989-1990
1990-1991

All Rookie Reports
All Rookie's Game Reports
All Rookie's reported games in a single file

UCU Yearbook

Drew Ferguson — 2001-07-19T15:35:00Z

In 1989 the Ulster Chess Union commenced publishing a Yearbook under the editorship of David Houston. The Yearbooks continued for about 10 years until they were superseded by the UCU establishing a presence on the internet.

We are republishing a selection of the articles appearing in the Yearbooks formatted appropriately for the Internet

Spectactor

System Administrator — 2018-04-21T16:52:16Z

Over the years, Bangor Chess Club has used the local papers to publicise its activities. Unfortunately it is often difficult to determine authorship of these articles as they were either unsigned or produced annonymously by staff reporters and/or photographers.

The articles we have available can be attributed as follows:

2003-2005 series: authored primarily by Drew Ferguson. At the time, the editorial policy of the paper prevented publication of games and photographs. Pictures included in our rendering of the articles were probably submitted with article text but usually only the text made it into the paper.