4NCL Division 3 2023-24: 1st Weekend
The Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) Division 3 Bishops season started in the past weekend on 18-19 November. The matches were held at the Mercure Hotel, Telford, England. Written by Trisha: I was looking forward to making my debut for the She Plays To Win (SPTW) Lioness team. Previously I played for an Irish chess…
UCD Congress Masters 2023
This was a 5 round event, which was played over the weekend. The top seed of the tournament IM Artur Davtyan from Armenia clinched the title scoring 4.5 points out 5 rounds convincingly. Jacob Flynn and Colm Daly shared joint second, scoring 4 points each. The tournament didn’t go well for Trisha and me we…
Women’s Grandswiss + Nottingham GM all-play-all | Dual Report
By Trisha FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss 2023: Extremely tough and enriching experience Coming into this elite-level tournament as a wild-card player made me feel lucky and I wanted to make the most out of this opportunity. My first half of the tournament went really bad. I’m still processing what happened. At the halfway mark, there…
