The Malahide Millennium tournament takes place this weekend; for those who haven’t entered yet and/or are thinking about playing up, players are advised to contact the tournament organisers by e-mail before Saturday if at all possible.
Entries on the day are accepted subject to availability and payment of a late entry fee of €10. Players are advised to at least drop an e-mail to the organiser, Vincent Bissett (VincentBissett at hotmail.com) to confirm their entry and to speed things up on the day. This is particularly vital for anyone looking to take a round 1 bye.
Players looking to play up should include a valid reason/qualification with their entry – the bands are there for a reason, but may be malleable in the correct context. It should be noted that as the bottom section is u1400, a successful tournament in the bottom section will constitute playing up anyway in comparison to Bunratty/Kilkenny.
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will you be picking me up from my house?
Is the school possible? Meeting Dylan there too.
What time we meet at the school at?
8:45. The draw will be done at 9:45, so want to leave time to get people registered and sort out any issues about what section people are playing in.
Kevin can u send them an email for me and let them know I’m playing over 1400? Thanks
I did; that’s why I posted this article. It’s more or less the e-mail I got back – they ask if you can just drop them an e-mail to confirm entry anyway, ask to play up (and point out 10/11 in the Bodley, projected rating or 1450 or so, 2nd in Kilkenny and 5th in Bunratty) and they’ll make a call. No guarantees though. Odhrán’s playing down, incidentally.
yea ill meet ya there thanks kevin
Ok thanks just sent him one there
yess they let me into the intermediate section cant wait I need like 50 points
Same
Ye’ll get no points from me!!
(I hope…)
I really hope I play you kevin I’d like to win and see what you’d do Haha
Dylan says that if you loose to me you will leave the club
Me or Kevin
I will leave the club?! Much easier to just drop you from the Bodley/BA/whatever.
No kevin play him board 1 on Armstrong hahahaha
that would just help me get better jamie
You wouldn’t win a game jack
kevin the time is an hour off ^
Or draw and you wouldn’t be able to anyway
yea but the expierience though would ya get better playing a 2000 or a 800
Not sure what I can do about that; I’ll check. This guy played board 1 in the Armstrong this year – http://leinsterchess.com/lcu1213/div1/pt0203.htm
There we go; time fixed. You’d learn fairly little from losing to 2000+s each week! They’d just be that far ahead of ye.
thats a pity
Holy Sh*t did Rathmines get relegated haha
Don’t go there!! Let’s just say the first Cup game on Wednesday week will be interesting…
did they actually????
How many games do we play in the cup thing and is it only on Wednesday?
Both Rathmines’ Armstrong teams got relegated. And their Heidenfeld.
The draw for the William Brennan Cup – your cup – hasn’t been made yet. It’s small groups; depending on entry. Maybe groups of 4, so three games. In the top cup, it’s one group of 5 and one of 6, but that’s a lot of games and I think the Brennan will be smaller groups.
Will it be just on Wednesdays and will it be rated?
Yes, it’ll be rated. it’ll be 105 minutes for all moves too. Home games will be on Wednesdays, away games will be on whatever night the opposition play and country games will be on Saturdays. Exact same as the league. Top team or two goes into the semis, and then a final.
I should point out that the poor Rathmines bloke on the Armstrong board 1 had a performance rating of 1743 from that 0/11 score. Stick to trying to beat Kevin for now.
Wow – so he outperformed his rating by 22 points! Kind of puts board 1 on the Armstrong in perspective there.
Kevin would you not let me win against you so that I get on the Irish team
Nah.