The chess community is absolutely buzzing today. Tomorrow evening, the prestigious 53rd National Club Championship finally begins. It is the absolute pinnacle of domestic team chess. Furthermore, the highly anticipated Queen Maeve Cup 2026 runs right alongside it. Hosting the Queen Maeve Cup and National Club Championship 2026 in Rathfarnham Coláiste Éanna will host a …
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Shoutout to my captain IM Lorin D’Costa for wonderful writing about SPTW team. I was thrilled to see my photo on UK’s best-selling CHESS magazine. Checkout their magazine here: https://chess.co.uk/collections/chess-magazine/products/chess-magazine-december-2024 Competing in the European Women’s Club Cup (EWCC) in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia, was an experience I’ll never forget. Representing She Plays To Win, I embraced …
Written by Trisha Kanyamarala One of the strong weekend tournaments in Ireland the Gonzaga Classic, this year witnessed 200+ players participating in three categories, Masters, Championships, and Challengers. It is annually held at the prestigious secondary school, Gonzaga College in Dublin. In the Masters section, there were 50 participants and 16 titled players including 3 …
The first league game of the year started with a win against University College Dublin in our home match. It was the 6th round of the league, our team scored 5.5-2.5 winning the match by a good margin. It was an interesting match, the last game went up to 4.5 hours of play which was …
Bonjour! Our first tournament of the year started with both of us winning the first round! This was our second time playing in Vandoeuvre les-nancy, I think we had a decent performance this time, we both scored 5 points out of 9 rounds with Tarun beating a GM and drawing against one GM and I …
The year is coming to an end and we finished our last tournament of the year in Groningen, Netherlands. The tournament had a pretty strong field including 10 GMs, 8 IMs participating in it. Top seed of the tournament GM Valery Kazakouski, and GM Romanov Evgeny were in joint lead going into the last round. …
Over 100+ players from 20 different countries, participating in the Skopje Open and Balkan Championship 2023. The tournament was held in Hotel Continental in Skopje, North Macedonia. The second seed of the tournament Grandmaster Romanov, Evgeny from Norway won the Skopje Open scoring 7.5 points out of 9 rounds, and Nikola Djukic from Montenegro came …
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 …