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Updates 11/7/2011
The 2011 Club Championships cross-tables have been updated here.
John Loughran was the only Elm Mount player in the Irish Championships - he scored 2/9.
Tomas Bajcar came joint 2nd in the Irish Championships Weekender Tournament with 4/5.
Pictured left is Elm Mount's David Fitzsimons with Ryan Rhys Griffiths from Kilkenny at the Ile de France Paris Open Chess Championships held during July 2011.
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Updates 30/5/2011
Elm Mount Chess Club won the Branagan Cup for the first time in the Club's history by defeating Gonzaga 5.5 - 0.5 in the final in the Teacher's Club in Dublin city centre. Pictured below (left) are the Elm Mount players who competed in the competition in 2011 with Mick Germaine who presented the prizes on behalf of the Leinster Chess Union (Zygis Jakubauskas also played).
The club's juniors also did well at the same venue when finishing in 3rd place in the inaugural Mick Germaine Cup Competition. The Elm Mount team is pictured with their prizes, from left, Liza Fitzsimons, Cian MacGowan, Mick Germaine who presented the prizes, Aidan Lynch and Naoise MacGowan.
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The Elm Mount AGM was held on the 23rd May. The 2010-11 season board prize winners were presented with their prizes at the AGM.
From left:
Tomas Bajcar (Heidenfeld), Eugene McMorrow (Ennis), Pat Fitzsimons (Heidenfeld), Victor Murray (President of Elm Mount),
Andrew Peters (O'Hanlon), Ronan J Murphy (BEA Cup), Matthias Rahneberg (Armstrong).
The 2011 Club Championship is underway - some results can be seen here.
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Updates 24/5/2011
The 2011 Club Championships cross-tables have been added here. Pairings and contact details were sent out by email.
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Updates 11/5/2011
The 2011 Club Championships have started!
There are 2 new entries in the Chess Pieces section:-
A poem by Jorge Luis Borges on a chess theme
Chess and the Law - an extract from the New Yorker
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Updates 26/4/2011
The 2011 Leinster Chess Championships took place in the Teacher's Club in Dublin's city centre over the weekend of 22nd -24th April. Several Elm Mount Players were amongst the prizes as follows:
The Masters Section finished in a tie at the top with 4 players on a score of 4/6, amongst them David Fitzsimons who finished in fourth place on tie break. William Ffrench won the Challengers Section outright with Ronan Murphy winning a grading prize in the same section. One of the club's up and coming younger players, Nikhil George Rajesh (age 12) won a grading prize in the Juniors Section. Photos of the players receiving their prizes from the LCU's Rory Delaney are shown below.
 
 
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Updates 20/3/2011
Elm Mount have won the Heidenfeld Trophy!
Elm Mount won the Heidenfeld Trophy in the 2010/2011 season, beating Inchicore 7-1 in the last round in the Teachers Club on 13/3/2011 to finish 3.5 points ahead of Celbridge. This also means that the team has been promoted to the Armstrong Cup for next season.
Above is the team receiving the trophy. From left: Alan McDonagh, Tomas Bajcar, Seán Murphy, Fred Armstrong, Terry Creighton, John Loughran, Pat Fitzsimons (captain) and Oliver Dunne. Tomas and Pat won board prizes also - both scored 8.5/11.
Full league tables are here.
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Updates 3/3/2011
League Final Round
The final round of the Leinster Chess League will take place on Sunday 13th March 2011 in the Teacher's Club.
The best-placed Elm Mount team is the Heidenfeld team which is in contention to win the trophy.
Bunratty 2011
A number of Elm Mount players competed in the 2011 Bunratty Chess Tournament recently. David Fitzsimons won the best untitled Irish player prize with the highlight of his performance being a draw with top seed English Grandmaster Nigel Short. David achieved his draw against the former world championship contender in round 5. John Loughran, pictured with baby daughter Mary, won a grading prize in the Challengers Section.
National Club Championship
Elm Mount participated in the National Club Championship on 12th/13th February. The team won 1 match, drew with Gonzaga and lost 2 matches by the narrowest of margins. Top scorers were Matthias Rahneberg and Tomas Bajcar with 3/4 each. There is a report on the ICU site here.
Gonzaga 2011
David Fitzsimons won the 2011 Gonzaga Chess Classic recently for the second year running with a perfect 5/5 score.
David is pictured receiving his prize from Tournament Organiser Danny Lynch.
William Ffrench came joint 3rd in the Championship section.
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Updates 17/1/2011
The January 2011 rating list is here.
Notable changes are Matthias Rahneberg +70 and Pat Fitzsimons +51.
The Armstrong match away to Rathmines B postponed because of snow has been refixed for 31st January.
A review of the favourite Chess books of various (mostly Elm Mount) players of various standards.
David Fitzsimons receiving his prize for winning the LCU Blitz. He also won the Elm Mount Christmas Blitz!
Elm Mount O' Connell Cup Team pictured receiving their trophies from Gerry O' Connell after finishing 3rd in the Novices League just a half point behind winners Ballinasloe. left to right, Naoise MacGowan, Lisa Fitzsimons, Aidan Lynch, Gerry O' Connell and Cian MacGowan.
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Updates 5/12/2010
Christmas is approaching - the Elm Mount club Christmas Blitz will take place in the club on Monday 20th December.
Prizes for the club championship will be presented the same night.
The LCU Christmas will take place in the Elm Mount premises on Wednesday 15th December.
After 5 rounds of the leagues, Elm Mount are in first (or joint first) position in divisions 1, 2 and 3.
Some games have been postponed because of the weather.
There is a new item in the Chess Pieces section - an extract from the novel Murphy by Samuel Beckett featuring a game of chess.
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Updates 19/10/2010
The 2010 Club Championship tables have been updated - see here. Liam Porter won the top section with 4.5/6.
The 2010/11 Leinster League season has started. The Armstrong team has a half-point lead over Kilkenny after 3 rounds.
David and Pat Fitzsimons were at the Chess Olympiad in Siberia - David to play and Pat as manager. There are pictures
here.
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Updates 10/8/2010
Tournament news
A number of Elm Mount players took part in the Irish Championship tournaments.
5 Elm Mount players played in the main 2010 Irish Championship -
Ciaran Quinn 5.5/9,
David Fitzsimons 4.5/9,
Liam Porter 4/9,
Bernard Boyle 3.5/9,
John Loughran 2.5/9.
Tomas Bajcar finished joint second with 4/5 in the Weekender.
Notable results included Bernard Boyle's win over Colm Daly and Ronan Murphy's win over Colm Fitzpatrick.
David Fitzsimons will be playing in the IM section at the Dun Laoghaire chess festival in late August.
League news
The 2010/11 fixtures for the top 5 divisions have been drawn up. The first matches for the Elm Mount teams are:-
- Division 1 Armstrong Cup - Monday 13 September at home to Dun Laoghaire
- Division 2 Heidenfeld Trophy - Thursday 23 September away to Lucan
- Division 3 Ennis Shield - Saturday 25th September at home to Longford
- Division 4 O'Hanlon Cup - Saturday 9 October away to Curragh
- Division 5 BEA Cup - Wednesday 13 October away to Dun Laoghaire
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From the archives ...
To the right is a photo of the Elm Mount team which won the BEA Cup in 1975/76.
Two of the players in the photo also played on the 2009/10 Armstrong Cup winning team.
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Updates 19/6/2010
The Club Championships have started. Some of the cross-tables have been updated.
Liam Porter won Section B of the Drogheda Tournament with a score of 4/5. Ciaran Quinn was joint second with 3.5/5.
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Updates 4/6/2010
The Club Championships tables have been updated:-
Section A
Section B
Section C
Novices.
2 poems have been added to the Chess Pieces.
Elm Mount have reached the final of the Killane Shield by beating Phibsboro 5.5 to 0.5.
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2010 Club Championship 29/5/2010
The Club Championships are about to start - see here for details of all 3 sections.
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Chess Pieces 29/5/2010
Oliver Dunne has contributed a chess story The Quiet Game. More contributions are welcome for the "Chess Pieces" area - see the link at the side.
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AGM is on on 17 May 2010!
The Annual General Meeting is on Monday 17th May starting at 8.15PM sharp
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Inter-club competition news 24/4/2010
The Leinster Chess Union knockout competitions have started. In the first round of the Branagan Cup, Elm Mount beat
Rathmines B 5-1
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Tournament news 24/4/2010
David Fitzsimons retained the Leinster Chess Championship recently by
winning the Masters Section of the Championships for the second time in a
row on an unbeaten score of 4/5. He clinched the title by winning a final
round "winner takes all" encounter with Colm Daly, the reigning Irish
Senior Champion.
Pictured is David (left) receiving his prize from father Pat, PRO of
the Leinster Chess Union (LCU).
Other tournament news:-
William French won a grading prize in the Philip Hogarty rapid-play tournament.
David Fitzsimons finished 2nd in the Irish Blitz Championship.
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Elm Mount have won the Armstrong Cup!
Elm Mount won the Armstrong Cup, the first division of the Leinster chess league, for the first time on March 14th 2010 when the Armstrong A team beat St. Benildus 6-2.
The teams were joint leaders on 51 points going into the last round.
Kilkenny who were 1.5 points behind going into the last round won 7-1 to come second by half a point.
The team was
- David Fitzsimons
- Zygis Jakubauskas
- Adam Spírek
- Gerard MacElligott
- Ciaran Quinn
- Oliver Dunne
- Bernard Boyle
- Alan McDonagh
- (sub) Terry Creighton
Adam won a board prize with 8.5/10.
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The Elm Mount Armstrong Cup winning team from 2009/10.
Standing (from left): Alan, Gerry, Adam and Zygis.
Seated (from left): Oliver, Terry, David, Ciaran and Bernard'
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Photos
View more recent club photos here.
More photos added 25th March 2010
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League update - 14th March 2010
The Leinster Chess League season concluded on 14th March 2010.
The following are the final standings on the Elm Mount teams:-
- Division 1 - Armstrong Cup: A team 1st (57 points out of 88), winners
- Division 1 - Armstrong Cup: B team 11th (30/88), relegated
- Division 3 - Ennis Shield: 3rd (35.5/66)
- Division 4 - O'Hanlon Cup: 8th (31/66)
- Division 5 - BEA Cup: 4th (29.5/50)
You can see the full set of league tables on the Leinster Chess League site here.
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Elm Mount Christmas Blitz 2009
Zygis Jakubauskas (right) won the club's Christmas tournament.
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Player of the Year 2009
The 2009 Player of the Year award was shared by Donal Harrington (on left) and David Fitzsimons (on right).
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LCU Christmas Blitz 2009
David Fitzsimons won the Leinster Chess Union's Christmas Blitz tournament. The picture below shows him receiving his prize from Rory Delaney, Tournament Controller, Leinster Chess Union.
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Elm Mount Juniors Championship 2009
Lisa Fitzsimons (age 11) won the 2009 Elm Mount Juniors Championship with an unbeaten score of 4.5/5.
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Directions to Elm Mount Chess
Club
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of O'Connell Street. The club is in the Ierne Sports and
Social Club on Grace Park road. There is a large car park
on the club grounds. To find the club by car, bike, bus
or train, follow the directions below or the map. Directions and larger map from
city centre.
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Committee 2008-9
President: Victor Murray, 8375487(h), victory@oceanfree.net
Secretary: Pat Fitzsimons, 8342140(h), 087 4195253(m), pfitzsimons@legalaidboard.ie
or mastergame100@hotmail.com
Treasurer: Gerry Barry, 086 3238410(m), gerry.barry@diageo.com
Tournament Director: Donal Harrington, 086 2316873(m), donalh@edo.ie
and Bernard Boyle
Club Captain: Ciarán Quinn
Webmasters: John Loughran, Alec Tyrrell, Eugene McMurrow, Gerry
MacElligott
Previous Committees
Team Captains 2008-9 (to be
confirmed)
Armstrong A, Div. 1: Ciarán Quinn, 087 9548205, ciaran.quinn@boimail.com, ciaranquinn123@yahoo.ie
Heidenfeld A, Div. 2: Pat Fitzsimons; 087 4195253, pfitzsimons@legalaidboard.ie
or mastergame100@hotmail.com
Heidenfeld B, Div. 2: Eugene McMorrow, 086 3710761(m), eugmcm@eircom.net
Ennis, Div 3: Victor Murray
B.E.A., Div. 5: Kevin Murray
Former Team Captains
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