O'Hanlon B record first win

The O'Hanlon B team recorded their first win of the season 4-2 away to Elm Mount.  This should greatly help in the battle to stave off relegation.

O'Hanlon B fall to Drogheda

The O'Hanlon B-team lost 4.5 - 1.5 to Drogheda last night.  Austin kept up his good run of form with a win on board 3.

For the O'Hanlon A-team, Airidas drew on board 1 versus Shane Lee of Finglas (game brought forward).

Congratulations to the O'Hanlon A-team

Congratulations to the O'Hanlon A-Team who confirmed promotion to division 3 of the Leinster Chess League with 3 rounds of matches to go.  This was achieved with an excellent 5.5 - 0.5 away win over the Curragh on Saturday.

The Bodley team scored a 3.5 - 1.5 victory away to Cavan.

Christmas Blitz

Our first Christmas Blitz competition was run on 21st December. We had a large turnout in spite of the snowy weather including senior, junior and past members as well as parents of junior members.

P.C.Quinn provided a nice buffet to go with the mince pies. The event was a big success and should be repeated in future years.

Congratulations to our winner Amos Walsh and our best junior Cormac Graham.

Games were played over 20 minutes but were time-handicapped based on rating. For example players of equal rating got 10 minutes each. For a rating difference of 500, the stronger player got 2 minutes while the weaker player had 18 minutes. The time-handicapping appeared to work well with the top of the leaderboard showing players of different ratings. In particular, the junior members put up a strong showing.

	Points
Amos Walsh	4.5	1st
Justin Corry	4.0	2nd
Sean Nolan	4.0	2nd
Cormac Graham	3.5	Best Junior
Harry Howard	3.0
John O'Driscoll	3.0
Margaret McPherson	3.0
Serguei Koustov	3.0
Austin Blake	2.0
John Forde	2.0
Nikolei Koustov	2.0
Patrick C Quinn	2.0
Scott Graham	2.0
Michael O'Dwyer	1.0

Leinster Chess League 2010/11 - O'Hanlon A Team Results

Round	Opposition	Date	Venue	Result	Score
1	Naomh Barróg B	Tue 05 Oct 10	Home	Won	5  –  1
2	Dublin	Mon 01 Nov 10	Away	Drew	3  –  3
3	Drogheda	Sat 13 Nov 10	Home	Won	5  –  1
4	Inchicore	Thu 25 Nov 10	Away	Won	5 ½  –  ½
5	Elm Mount	Tue 07 Dec 10	Home	Won	5  –  1
6	Phibsboro	Mon 17 Jan 11	Away	Won	5  –  1
7	Celbridge	Tue 25 Jan 11	Home	Won	6  –  0
8	Curragh	Sat 12 Feb 11	Away	Won	5 ½  –  ½
9	Bye
10	Finglas	Tue 01 Mar 11	Away	Won	5 ½  –  ½
11	Kilkenny	Sun 13 Mar 11	Home	Won	4  –  2

Leinster Chess League 2010/11 - O'Hanlon B Team Results

Round	Opposition	Date	Venue	Result	Score
1	Naomh Barróg A	Tue 05 Oct 10	Away	Lost	1  –  5
2	Celbridge	Tue 19 Oct 10	Home	Drew	3  –  3
3	Dublin	Mon 08 Nov 10	Away	Drew	3  –  3
4	Curragh	Sat 20 Nov 10	Home	Lost	1 ½  –  4 ½
5	Drogheda	Sat 04 Dec 10 rescheduled Tue 15 Feb 11	Away	Lost	1 ½  –  4 ½
6	Bye
7	Inchicore	Thu 27 Jan 11	Away	Lost	1  –  5
8	Finglas	Tue 08 Feb 11	Home	Drew	3  –  3
9	Elm Mount	Mon 21 Feb 11	Away	Won	4  –  2
10	Kilkenny	Sat 05 Mar 11	Home	Lost	1 ½  –  4 ½
11	Phibsboro	Sun 13 Mar 11	Away	Lost	3 ½  –  2 ½

Leinster Chess League 2010/11 - Bodley Team Results

Round	Opposition	Date	Venue	Result	Score
1	Elm Mount	Tue 02 Nov 10	Home	Won	4 ½  –  ½
2	Bray / Greystones A	Wed 17 Nov 10	Away	Won	3 ½  –  1 ½
3	Rathmines	Tue 23 Nov 10	Home	Won	3  –  2
4	Arklow Cortex	Sat 04 Dec 10	Away	Postponed
5	Ballinasloe	Sat 11 Dec 10	Home	Lost	1 ½  –  3 ½
6	Cavan	Sat 08 Jan 11 Postponed 12/2/2011	Away	Won	3 ½  –  1 ½
7	Bray / Greystones B	Tue 25 Jan 11	Home	Drew	2 ½  –  2 ½
8	Jobstown	Mon 07 Feb 11	Away	Won	3  –  2
9	St Benildus	Wed 16 Feb 11	Away	Drew	2 ½  –  2 ½
10	Inchicore	Tue 01 Mar 11	Home	Lost	4  –  1
11	Blanchardstown	Sun 13 Mar 11	Away	Lost	4 ½  –   ½

Autumn Swiss

Congratulations to Sean Nolan on winning the Autumn Swiss pre-season tournament.  Airidas came second while board prizes went to Austin and Michael.

The tournament was a success giving players a chance to get some serious action before the season proper kicks in.

Name	Rating	Band	Score
Nolan, Sean	1642		3.5	1st
Tolkus, Airidas	1586		3.0	2nd
Blake, Austin	1049	2	3.0	GP
Plummer, Barry	1410		2.5
O'Dwyer, Michael P.	1212	1	2.5	GP
Molloy, Martin	1047	2	2.5
Collins, Tom	1301		2.0
Corry, Justin	1470		2.0
Kelly, Stephen			2.0
Forde, John P.	1045	2	2.0
Walsh, Amos	1007	2	2.0
Doyle, Patrick	1116	1	1.5
Rafferty, Joseph	923	2	1.5
Howard, Harry	1121	1	1.0
Mullen, Neil	1052	1	1.0
Jolien		2	1.0
O'Driscoll, John	1164	1	0.0

Given the time of year, there were a lot of byes requested and given.  When this was combined with the 4-round format caused some difficulties.  Maybe some tweaking is necessary for next year.