Articles for 2013 season
Summer 2012 Civil Service Tournament now roughly half-way.
The results so far of the 2012 Summer Tournament at the Civil Service.
Summer Tournament 2012 photos
Photos from the Summer 2012 Tournament
2012 Ulster Championships underway
For the sixth successive year the Europa Hotel is hosting the Ulster Chess Union's premier tournament over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
2012 Ulster Championship results
After three days and six rounds of competitive chess at Belfast's Europa Hotel, three Ulster Championship titles have been decided.
2012 Ulster Championship photographs
Photographs taken by Mark Newman during the 2012 Ulster Championships at the Europa Hotel .
The Summer tournament. 2 Match playing weeks left then prize-giving.
Only two weeks of play left. How do the players stand. The three section leaders all have the potential to win the whole tournament. Top Section leader: Pat Colemen 77.78% Middle Section leader: Matthew Chapman 80% Lower Section leader: David Seaby 71.88%
Individual Ulster Chess Union Fees for this Year
The AGM has set the Fees for the Ulster Chess Union at £10 Member £5 Concession The Ulster Chess Union Provides Chess Tournaments in Northern Ireland. Calculates and publishes the rating list. Runs the Chess League. and many other chess related activities
Belfast Culture Night. Cafe Chess Playing at Caffe Nero, 19 Lombard St. 21st September 5:00pm til late
Enjoy meeting potential new chess players. Play chess and enjoy the cafe experience. Share your enthusiasm for the game. At Caffe Nero, 19 Lombard St. September 21st 5:00pm til late. This is part of the Belfast annual Culture Night ( http://culturenightbelfast.com ). With lots of exciting public events celebrating culture.
Belfast Culture event 2012 Cafe Nero photos
Belfast Culture event 2012 Cafe Nero photos
A brilliant Evening of Social Chess - Belfast Culture Night
Everyone had a brilliant evening - what could possibly beat this! meeting new people, drinking delicious coffee and playing chess. One felt proud to be part of the Ulster Chess Union, proud to be involved with the Belfast Culture Night, proud to part of Belfasts friendly people.
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Cafe Nero 2012 Culture Night photos
Problems from Belfast Culture Night
These are both challenging and elegent. Problems handed out on fliers during Belfast Culture Night 2012.
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problems-cafe2012-culturenight
The final round of the Summer 2012 Tournament
After some 240 games. 19 rounds. Who won the Summer Tournament 2012?
Last Session Summer 2012 Tournament -photos
Last Session Summer 2012 Tournament - photos
Summer Tournament Awards Evening and Active Competition: Weds 26th September.
The end of the Summer tournament was celebrated on Weds 26th September with a time handicap active. The difference of the players ratings sets the times on the clocks from 10min:10min to 2min:18min. Players are at their most even. At the end of the evening Prizes and certificates are awarded to the Summer Tournament Winners. All agreed many thanks to the brilliant venue - the Civil Service Social Club.
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Pics from summer tournament prize giving 2012 26th sept.
Nigel Short GM MBE playing in Belfast - a simultaneous exhibition on Tuesday 26th February 2013
An opportunity not to be missed. Your chance to play Nigel Short GM MBE in a simultaneous chess display in Belfast on Tuesday 26th February 2013 . Nigel Short tied first place at the British Championships at the age of 14. He became a GM at the age of 19. He was ranked 3rd in the World and challenged Kasparov for the Ultimate title of World Champion.
League begins week starting 22nd October
League begins week starting 22nd October. Venues and Nights - ** please note Belfast South is now Thursday evening. ** 11 Teams. First half of competition is an all-play-all results from which will split the teams into 2 leagues.
2012 Ulster Masters
On the weekend of 17th/18th November at the Civil Service Social Club some exciting Chess was played. Two players led their sections and gained victory with out dropping a game. Thomas Donaldson beat a tough section of seasoned club players to win with 5 points out of 6 - a fantastic score. Winning the intermediate section. Alan Delaney winning the Senior section with 5 1/2 out of 6.
UCU Masters 2012 Photos
Photos from UCU Masters 2012
Karina Kruk returns from World Youth Chess Championships
Karina Kruk returns from Maribor, Slovenia having represented Ireland at the World Youth Chess Championships. Scoring an excellent 5 out of 11.
Karina Kruk crowned Irish Womans Champion 2012 at Kilkenny 23rd-25th November
For the first time since 1982, Ireland held a seperate championship for the title of Womens Champion of Ireland, mainly thanks to the work and talents of Una O’Boyle. There were 12 partipants and it was run smoothly by Ted Jennings alongside the Kilkenny Congress.
Murphy joint second in Kilkenny
A Round-up of the exploits from all Ulster players in the recent Kilkenny Congress
Ulster 2012 Blitz Championship
On December 29th 21 chess players gathered to fight for the title of Ulster Blitz Champion. Players included last years winner Calum Leitch, current Ulster Champion Michael Waters, previous Champion Steven Scannell and top players Gareth Annesley, Stephen Morgan, Eamon Walls. This is chess at its rawest, intuition and fast thinking over the usual careful slow moving game....
Ulster Blitz 2012 Championships photos
Ulster Blitz 2012 Championships photos
Williamson Shield 2013 Day 1
The 2013 Williamson Shield is taking place over the 9-10 February weekend.
Waters retains Williamson Shield
At the end of Day 2 of the 2013 Williamson Shield, Ulster champion Michael Waters finished unbeaten to win his second successive Williamson and fourth overall.
Ulster Players do well at Bunratty
Ashley McWhinney (Bangor Club) came joint 5th out of a field of 108 players in the Minor. Thomas Donaldson (Ballynafeigh), Ian Kilpatrick (Ballynafeigh) and Robert Lavery (Ballynafeigh) came joint 9th out of a field of 76 players in the Major with 4 points. Calum Leitch (Ballynafeigh) and Alan Delaney (Fruit Hill) came joint 8th in the Challengers. Gareth Annesley (Mallusk) came 30th out of a very tough Masters.
Fantastic Simultaneous: Nigel Short wins all games....
This will be the highlight of the chess season. Playing one of the Legends of Chess - Nigel Short GM MBE. The event covered by the BBC news. 29 players of all skills pitted their wits against the Grand-Master.
Nigel Short simultaneous display
Pictures at an Exhibition
Sad news - Eddie Whiteside passed away
After a short illness, Eddie Whiteside has passed away. Funeral arrangements have now been announced.
Flanagan wins Belfast South tournament
Sam Flanagan defeated Pat Coleman in his final game to pip CJ Murphy to the post in the inaugural Belfast South Tournament at the Agape Centre, Lisburn Road.
John Masterson Ulster Rapidplay 2013 Champion
A fun 6 games of 25min chess on a beautiful but cold Easter Monday. Decided the Ulster Rapidplay Champion. With 31 players from the ages of 6 to a bit older! all had a brilliant day.
City of Belfast 2013 report
The 2013 City of Belfast Championships were played at the Ballynafeigh Community Development Centre over the 18-19 May weekend.
Mallaghan and Murphy win in Limerick
A round up of the Ulster Players' performance at the recent Irish Chess Championship
League Prizes and new President
The UCU AGM held on July 16th included the presentation of the Silver King to Fisherwick club, the Tom Clarke trophy to Steven Eachus and the election of a new UCU President, Geoff Hindley.
UCU AGM 2013 photos
Photographs taken at the 2013 UCU AGM
Mallusk Chess Club
Magherafelt travelling people have settled in Mallusk
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week1
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
The 2012 Childrens Summer Chess School
3 Day Summer Chess School for Children, Beginners to Expert.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week5
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week6
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week7
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week8
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week10 - After gap of a week the show continues
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
The Ulster Chess Championships 2012: Europa Hotel
The Ulster Chess Championships 2012: Europa Hotel. August 25-27th 2012.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week11
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week17
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week20 Prize-Giving and mini Tournament
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The last weds of the Summer tournament consists of the Prize-Giving and an active tournament.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week18
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
Summer Chess Tournament 2012 : Week19
The UCU Summer Tournament is open to all chess players and provides regular competitive chess during the summer months when many chess clubs are closed. The tournament is flexible – players play whichever nights suit them with pairings being made on the evening. Players are usually paired with opponents within their own grading band but late comers may get a difficult draw – so please be prompt.
Belfast Culture Night. Cafe Chess Playing at Caffe Nero, 19 Lombard St.
Enjoy meeting potential new chess players. Play chess and enjoy the cafe experience. Share your enthusiasm for the game. At Caffe Nero, 19 Lombard St.
LJCC - Belfast Qualifier 2012: 6th October
An opportunity for Primary Students to Qualify for the London Junior Chess Championships - one of the most prestigous Junior chess events. The qualifier is an all day 6 round Childrens Tournament in 5 classes.
Ulster Schools Individual Chess Championships
The top young chess players of Ulster battle it out to see who will be the Ulster Champion. 3rd November at Methodist College.
Ulster Chess Union Annual General Meeting
Official Notice of the UCU AGM.
City of Belfast Championships
6 round Swiss tournament played in two sections.
Ulster Masters 2012
The Ulster Masters will be held over the weekend of 17th-18th November at the Civil Service Pavilion in the Stormont Estate.
Childrens Chess Competition: December 8th
A half day of chess fun. Play chess. Solve Problems. Grand-prix system runs over all these monthly tournaments - win opportunity to play chess at Stormont.
Schools Ulster Championships 2012
The most presitigous event on the schools Chess Calender was held at Methodist College. Some 31 students battled to become the Ulster Champion. The youngest player was 5 years Admira Kecskemeti who was awarded Ulster Under 7's Champion. We also had the international junior player Karina Kruk who won the overall Championship. With players coming from schools as far a field as St Columbs College. Run by the Ulster Schools Chess Council who together with the UCU run a calender of events - approx one per month.
Junior Photos
Pictures from Junior Chess
Childrens Chess Competition: Saturday January 12th
A half day of chess fun. Play chess. Solve Problems. Grand-prix system runs over all these monthly tournaments - win opportunity to play chess at Stormont.
Childrens Chess Competition: Saturday February 16th
A half day of chess fun. Play chess. Solve Problems. Grand-prix system runs over all these monthly tournaments - win opportunity to play chess at Stormont.
Childrens Chess Competition: Saturday March 16th
A half day of chess fun. Play chess. Solve Problems. Grand-prix system runs over all these monthly tournaments - win opportunity to play chess at Stormont.
Junior Chess: Dublin- Ficheall Shaor Amuigh Faoin Spéir: Chess fun out in the open air
Junior CHESS - Let’s light the Chrishmas Lights too! Saturday, December 1st, 3pm-4pm in Ranelagh Triangle. Dublin Special Guest FIDE Chess Master: FM David Fitzsimons Please send me an email or text if you may attend, so I can gauge how many chess sets I should bring. Cuir ríomhphoist chugam le do thoil. Le dea-mhéin, Úna O Boyle 085-1433949 / unaficheall@gmail.com
Chess For All - Primary Schools - Tournament of Champions
Chess For All are organising Ireland's Greatest ever junior chess tournament at the Pavilion Restaurant, Leopardstown Racecourse, Dublin
December starts the run of top Childrens Chess Tournaments
On December 8th at Methodist College some of the top children in Ulster played the first Monthly Childrens Chess Tournament. Numbers werent high but the quality of chess was excellent. Players included in the secondary section: Karina Kruk recently crowned Irish Womans Champion, Thomas Donaldson the winner of the Belfast Masters Challengers, Matthew Chapman Ulster Junior Champion, Kiran and Kevin Robbin regular Belfast Scholastic Chess Winners. In the smaller Primary School section we had Honor Parissis the Ulster Under 10 Champion.
January Childrens Chess: a primary one comes second
Calvin Patterson one of the youngest players we have had at our events came second in the Primary Section with an excellent score of 4 out of 7.
Success at The London Junior Chess Championships
Update with photos. Having qualified to compete at the Belfast LJCC Qualifier Honor Parissis travelled to London to play in this presitigious event. This is where the top juniors in the UK meet and battle over the board.
2013 Irish Junior Chess Championships
The top Junior Chess Event. Jointly organised by Clare Chess in conjunction with the ICU.
Childrens Chess February 16th
Matthew Chapman won the Secondary Section unbeaten with 5.5 out of 6 games. Honor Parissis won the Primary Section scoring an excellent full 7 points not dropping a game. Second came Lucia Corrigan with 6 points only loosing to Honor. Also exciting was that the next position was held by P2 student Dayna Furguson and then in joint fourth place we had P2 Admira Kecskameti, P1 Daniel Furguson, P3 Pheobe Patterson, P1 Calvin Patterson - a wealth of young good players.
Childrens Chess Competition: Saturday April 13th
A half day of chess fun. Play chess. Solve Problems. Grand-prix system runs over all these monthly tournaments - win opportunity to play chess at Stormont.
Mega-final : THE DELANCEY UK SCHOOLS’ CHESS CHALLENGE 2013
Mega-final : THE DELANCEY UK SCHOOLS’ CHESS CHALLENGE 2013 May 11th 9:30 Registration Methodist School, Belfast
P3 player wins March's Childrens Chess
A young P3 player Dayna Ferguson wins the Primary Section unbeaten with 6 points. Kevin Robbin wins the Secondary Section with 5.5 points. Eibhia Ni Mhureagain wins the Lower Secondary Section.
Chess in The Library
A new group organising a new exciting tournament: LogicNI and the Shankill Road Library invite you to participate in the LogicNI Chess Children Cup Sat April 27th
Chess in The Library
LogicNI and the Shankill Road Library would like to invite YOU to participate in the LogicNI Chess Children Cup
Top young chess players enjoy Stormont
Kieran McCarthy MLA invited the 14 top players to play at Stormont in the Stormont Elite chess competition. The players (ages from 6 to 18) have played in the monthly Childrens Chess tournaments held at Methodist College. To gain an invite they had to be in the top 4 of a Grand-prix point system (adding best results from 3 of the tournaments). Parents, Principals and Volunteers were also invited. Champions: Upper Secondary School: Kieran Robbin (RBAI) Form4 Lower Secondary School: Eibha Ni Mhuireagian (Ursaline College) Form1 and Jake Patterson (Home Educated) Form3 Primary School: Honor Parisiss (Fullerton) P7
Aprils Childrens Chess
Top players attended the April Childrens Chess at Methodist College. We had Candidate Master Karina Kruk (Current Irish Womans Champion), Gavin Melaugh from Derry (Previous Irish under 8 Champion).
New Location for the Summer Tournament
The Summer Tournament will start on Weds May 15th. At the Belfast Banker's Club 31 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 6RU.
Ulster Rapidplay Championship 2013 - Easter Monday
The next two tournaments on the UCU timetable: The Ulster Rapidplay Championship 2013 - Easter Monday 1st April and The City of Belfast Championships 18th/19th May.
The Belfast Scholastic Chess Shields 2013
With the final Childrens Chess for 2013 completed we have the Grand-prix results for the Belfast Scholastic Shield 2013.
The Belfast Scholastic Chess Shields.
With only one of the Childrens Chess tournaments left for the season we have the Grand-prix results for the tournament series so far.... With prize-giving hopefully at Stormont in June.
Youngsters do well at top Ireland tournament
A huge tournament was held at Leopardstown Racecourse, Dublin on 23rd March. Some 380 primary school players. At the Tournament of Champions 2013, Dayna Ferguson was placed joint 4th, whilst brother Daniel Ferguson came joint 29th out of a section of 120 children.
LJCC - Belfast Qualifier 2012
Pictures and news from the LJCC Qualifier 2012
Ulster Schools Individual Chess Championships : Saturday Nov 3rd
The top young chess players of Ulster battle it out to see who will be the Champion.
Another successful Summer School
Held for the third year running the UCU ran another brilliant Summer Chess School. With Steve Scannell and Michael Waters providing some brilliant workshops.
Photos 2012 Chess Summer school
Photos 2012 Chess Summer school
The Stormont Elite Chess Tournament 2012 and Award Ceremony
Kieran McCarthy MLA invited the top young chess players to Stormont to play a tournament and receive awards for the year.
Childrens Chess Photos 2012
Pictures from Childrens Chess 2012
