Monthly Archives: May 2025

Primary Schools Team Event

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An event for teams of primary school children was held in St Conleths College on Saturday 10th May. It was a six-round Swiss event for teams of 4 primary school children run by Grandmaster Alexander Baburin. There were 14 teams entered including two from the club, the Elm Mount Kings and Elm Mount Knights.

The Elm Mount Kings finished runner-up on tie break from the Chess Kings with both teams finishing on an unbeaten score of 5.5/6 having drawn their individual match.

The team is pictured below with Grandmaster Alexander Baburin at the prize-giving, from left Allen Shema Gasore, Thomas Syms, Conal O’ Mahoney and Eric Yuze Lin. Conal and Eric also both received board prizes for their high scores on their boards (scores of 5/6 and 6/6 respectively). 

Ewan Henderson, who played on the Elm Mount Knights team, won a board prize for a score of 5/6 on board one. The club’s youngest competitors in the event, Anvita Nair and Adam Fennell, both aged 7, also acquitted themselves well on the Knights team against more experienced older players. Pictured below (right from foreground back) are Adam Fennell, Anvita Nair and Ewan Henderson. Ewan is also pictured with grandmaster Alexander Baburin at the prize-giving ceremony.


Elm Mount Spring Blitz Event

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The club held a blitz event on 28th April to mark the end of the 2024/25 league season.

23 players took part in 3 keenly-contested sections.

The winner of Section A was David Fitzsimons IM with a perfect score of 7/7 followed by Gavin Melaugh (6/7), and Jason Liu in third place on a score of 4.5/7.

Section B was won by Murray Liu on a score of 6/7 with Luke Keenan finishing as runner-up with a score of 5.5/7. Kieran Barry finished in third place on a score of 5/7.

Section C had three joint winners on a score of 5/6. Jack McKeon, Terry O’Connor and Trevor Corcoran.

The cross-tables for each section are set out below along with some photos of the various prize winners.

Elm Mount Spring Blitz Section A

Rank

SNo.

  

Name

Rtg

FED

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Pts

1

1

IM

Fitzsimons David

2328

IRL

*

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

7

2

4

Melaugh Gavin

2043

IRL

0

*

1

1

1

1

1

1

6

3

2

Liu Jason

2117

IRL

0

0

*

½

1

1

1

1

4½

4

3

Jakubauskas Zygis

1994

IRL

0

0

½

*

1

1

1

½

4

5

6

Boyle Bernard

1824

IRL

0

0

0

0

*

1

1

1

3

6

5

Quinn Ciaran

1971

IRL

0

0

0

0

0

*

1

1

2

7

8

Herring Jack

1819

IRL

0

0

0

0

0

0

*

1

1

8

7

Armstrong Fred

1766

IRL

0

0

0

½

0

0

0

*

½

 

Elm Mount Spring Blitz Section B
Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pts
1 1 Liu Murray 1909 IRL * 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
2 8 Keenan Luke 1770 IRL 1 * 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 5½
3 4 Barry Kieran 1688 IRL 0 0 * 1 1 1 1 1 5
4 7 MacDonagh Alan 1763 IRL 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 1 ½ 4
5 3 Dash Shaurya 1698 IRL 0 1 0 0 * 0 1 1 3
6 2 Syms Thomas 1679 IRL 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 3
7 6 McMorrow Eugene 1693 IRL 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 1 1
8 5 O’ Danachair Donal 1667 IRL 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 * ½

 

Elm Mount Spring Blitz Section C
Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pts
1 3 McKeon Jack 1500 IRL * 1 0 1 1 1 1 5
4 O’ Connor Terry 1592 IRL 0 * 1 1 1 1 1 5
5 Yuze Lin Eric 1460 IRL 1 0 * 1 1 1 1 5
4 6 Scott Peter 1668 IRL 0 0 0 * 1 1 1 3
5 2 Corcoran Trevor 1644 IRL 0 0 0 0 * 1 1 2
6 1 Harte Eoin 0 IRL 0 0 0 0 0 * 1 1
7 7 Cullen Bernie 0 IRL 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 0

Photos follow below:-