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Elm Mount win Branagan Cup for 3rd time in a row!

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Elm Mount won the Branagan Cup final against Bray/Greystones on Wednesday 3rd July to retain the Branagan Cup for the 3rd year in a row. The match was played in Bray with both teams closely matched on rating but the final score was Bray 1.5 Elm Mount 4.5. The result card is below.  A number of other club members also played in previous rounds. Pat Fitzsimons was team captain.

Bray / Greystones

Result

 Elm Mount
Colm Daly

0-1
(Tuesday)

 David Fitzsiimons
John Joyce

0-1

 Zygis Jakubauskas
Séamus Duffy

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 Ciaran Quinn
Eric Bennett

0-1

 Gerard MacElligott
Pat Reynolds

0-1

 Liam Porter
Ray O Rourke

1-0

 Oliver Dunne

 

 

 

 

 

 

AGM

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The AGM took place on the 13th May with a good attendance.

Food was supplied afterwards and Club championship and Team Board prizes were awarded. Some pictures below – more to follow …

O’Connell Cup

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Three Elm Mount teams, the Elm Mount Kings, Elm Mount Knights and Elm Mount Rooks took part in the O’Connell Cup which finished on the 26th May.

Some pictures below – more to follow!

Last round of the Leagues (div 1 to 5)

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The last round of the Leinster League divisions 1 to 5 took place on Sunday, 24th March.

No Elm Mount teams were either promoted or relegated. The closest was the O’Hanlon team which missed out on promotion by half a point. PIctured is team captain Victor Murray playing.

The Armstrong team finished in 3rd place.  The Heidenfeld team and the Ennis team both finished in 6th place. More pictures below:-

Junior Prizewinner

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Alex Goss

Alex Goss

Pictured above is one of the club’s younger members Alex Goss who recently competed for his school team in a tournament run by GM Alexander Baburin. Alex’s team finished as runners up and Alex was the highest scoring player in the event

2012 Player of the Year

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The 2012 Player of the Year has been shared by Fred Armstrong and David Fitzsimons.

The Trophy was presented on Monday, 14th January:-

Club President Victor Murray presented the trophy to Fred Armstrong (above). David Fitzsimons was occupied in playing a very long league match.

Christmas Blitz report

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The Christmas Blitz took place on the 17th December. 20 took part in the competition. There were 2 groups of 10 with the top 4 in each group qualifying for the quarterfinals. The competition was run using the usual rating handicap method.

The Group Stages:-

Eventually, it came down to the final between William Ffrench and David Fitzsimons:-

David won to come first and have first pick of the prizes. The prizes were presented by Pat Fitzsimons:-
David FItzsimons 1st

William Ffrench 2nd

Alan McDonagh 3rd

Ciaran Quinn 4th

Yann Salmon 5th
Eugene Donohue 6th

Liam Porter 7th

Zygis Jakubauskas 8th

Happy Christmas to all!

Elm Mount Club Christmas Blitz next Monday, 17th December

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This year’s Elm Mount Christmas Blitz tournament will take place next Monday 17th December 2012.  As always food will be provided with lots of prizes and fun guaranteed.
(This tournament is for members of Elm Mount chess club only)

Note: The Leinster Chess Union Christmas Blitz will be held in the Ierne club on Wednesday 19th – see the LCU website for details.