Ireland managed to get some points on the scoreboard tonight after some inept captaincy. Colin put 1 point onto the scoreboard with a win on board 3, but it was only on Tuesday that it was brought to our attention that Colin should have been on board 4. Oops. Final score 2-2 , a solid…
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Dec 5 – Dutch Blizzard hits Cork
We had a record turnout this year at UCC with 28 players coming to a chilly Cork. Once again there was a multinational presence, with Polish, Romanian, Dutch, Vietnamese, Chinese, French and British players in attendance. Willem-Koen Pomstra took first place ahead of the perennially second placed Cao Tong-Yu. The best player below the bar…
Nov 27 – Irish Final
The last game in the final of the Irish Championship took place in Belfast today. Ian, holding the white pieces, used his trademark Swan style to win by 7.5 points over James Hutchinson. Once again both players had chances to win the game, it will be interesting to see if James can improve on his…
Nov 23 – PETGC Round 1
Ireland were washed out big time in their game against the Swiss. Burdened by the bail out and the prospect of economic meltdown a dismal 0-4 loss to Switzerland took place in the new Pandanet European Team Championships.
Nov 23 – Outage
The website is now back online after a brief outage. We were hit by a wordpress vunerability exploit which caused our site to be suspended by our host. WordPress is now updated, which may lead to things being broken for a short while. so if you see anything wrong, please let us know. Apologies for…