The 2024 Senior Club Championships are now open for entry.
Games will be on 10/17/31 July and 14/28 August (the first round was planned for 3 July but clashes with the LCU AGM). Games at 7:30pm with 90+15 time control and byes available on request.
As usual, it’s open to all club members who have either left school or reached 1500. In the event of an odd number of players in the first round, a special invite will be extended to the top-rated junior under 1500 to even the draw up. The 1500 sounds high but of course is due to the ICU ratings change recently – 1100 (our old floor) is now 1640, but as part of the ratings adjustment is to counter rating deflation in recent years, which we didn’t adjust for in the club championships rules, we’re not going to adjust for the change to counter it either.
Seed | Name | Rating | Byes? |
1 | Stephen Brady FM | 2254 | |
2 | Ben Murray | 2113 | Round 2? |
3 | Karel Lievens | 1944 | TBC |
4 | John Healy | 1938 | |
5 | Kevin Burke | 1859 | |
6 | Ciarán Ruane | 1857 | |
7 | Odhrán McDonnell | 1844 | Round 3 |
8 | William Kenny | 1830 | |
9 | Wenle Liu | 1789 | Rounds 2 and 3 |
10 | Paul Kellett | 1787 | |
11 | Liam Kelly | 1781 | |
12 | Fearghal Brady | 1754 | |
13 | Desmond Beatty | 1744 | Round 3? |
14 | Alan Lane | 1693 | Round 3 |
15 | Des Carroll | 1638 | Round 3 |
16 | Artem Snegur | 1577 | |
17 | Yanbo Yu | 1508 | Rounds 1/2 |
18 | José Ufarte | 1466 | Rounds 3 and 4 |
19 | Eóin Prendiville | 1418 |