The Irish Chess Championship is the national Championship of

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Irish Chess Union The Irish Chess Union (ICU; ) is the governing body for chess in Ireland (the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) since its formation in 1912. ICU is a member of FIDE since 1933 and the European Chess Union. The ICU promotes chess in Irel ...

( ICU), the

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-recognised governing body for the game. Below is the list of champions. The first champion was J.A. Porterfield Rynd, who won the Dublin Chess Congress 1865 No. 3 Tournament, reserved for "amateurs, bona fide resident in Ireland for the 12 months prior to 1st September 1865". The ''Irish Chess Association'' was founded in 1885. Its congresses of 1886 and 1889 included provision for determining the Irish Championship, and the winners were Richard Whieldon Barnett (later Sir Richard Barnett) and George D. Soffe, respectively. The ''Hibernian Chess Association'' was established during the 1891–92 season, and held one Irish championship, in 1892, which was won by J.A. Porterfield Rynd. Since its foundation in 1912 the Irish Chess Union has organised the Irish Chess Championships. The events ran sporadically at first, but have been held annually since 1924, except for suspension during 1941–45. The Irish Chess Championship has run in various formats including a

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competition. Since 2013, the championship has been organised as a 9-round Swiss event, open to players registered as IRL with FIDE, who meet a rating requirement.

Winners

Men's champions

Women's champions

Source: *1953 Hilda F. Chater *1954 Hilda F. Chater *1955 Hilda F. Chater / Kay Doolan *1957 Hilda F. Chater *1968 Dorren O'Siochrú *1969 Catherine Byrne *1970 Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy *1971

Aileen Noonan Aileen Noonan (born 1950) is an Irish chess player. In the 1970s, Noonan was one of Ireland's leading female chess players and won Irish Women's Chess Championship in 1971. Noonan played for Ireland in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1969, a ...

/ Cecile Meulien *1972 Dorren O'Siochrú *1973 Dorren O'Siochrú *1976 Dorren O'Siochrú *1977 Ann Teresa Delaney *1980 Suzanne Connolly / Ann Teresa Delaney *1982 Edel Quinn *2010 April Cronin *2012 Karina Kruk *2013 Diana Mirza *2014 Gearoidín Uí Laighleis *2015 Monika Gedvilaite *2016 Monika Gedvilaite *2017 Ioana Miller *2018 Ioana Miller *2019 Ioana Miller *2021 Alice O'Gorman *2022 Trisha Kanyamarala

Senior / Veteran winners

*1999 Andrew Thomson *2000 Jack Parker *2001 Andrew Thomson, Maurice Coveney *2002 Pat Loughrey, Maurice Coveney *2003 Maurice Coveney *2004 No information found *2005 Pat Loughrey *2006 Paul Cassidy, Colm Egan *2007 Paul Cassidy, Jack Killane *2008 Jack Killane, Paul Cassidy *2009 Paul Cassidy *2010 Colm Egan, Art Coldrick, Melvyn King *2011 Jack Killane *2012 Paul Cassidy *2013 Eamon Keogh / Jack Killane *2014 Pat Twomey / John Nicholson *2015 Tim Harding *2016 Eamon Keogh

Notes

External links

Irish Championships at the website of the Irish Chess Union
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