The 1st Keith Escott Memorial Congress, held at Plantsbrook School from December 14-15, 2024, turned out to be a memorable event for me. I traveled to Sutton Coldfield, UK for the tournament and am happy to share that I claimed victory in the Open section. The venue was excellent – conveniently located near the town …
Traveling to Serbia for the European Club Cup was an exciting experience. Tarun and I set out to Vrnjačka Banja, about three hours from Belgrade. This was my second time playing in the Club Cup, with my previous appearance being in 2021 at Ohrid. This year, I competed in the Women’s tournament for She Plays …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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