Chess Club ‘Welcoming Committee’. Back row. Pictured left to right: Mr Weldon (mentor), Mark Duff (6th yr), Cian McMahon (5th yr), Seán Warlow (3rd yr), Mr Norman (mentor).
Front row: Left to right: Bryan Chan (2nd yr), Seán Hayes (5th yr) and Kieran Curran (5th yr). Wonderful success. Thanks to the committee for making all our visitors welcome and for helping them enjoy a game of mental gymnastics. See gallery for more pics.
1. Athinson, James 3rd year
2. Cashman, Cian 5th year
3. Curran, Kieran 3rd year
4. Malone, Padraic 6th year
5. Moynihan, Diarmuid 6th year
6. Murphy, Jordan 5th year
7. O’Donovan, Conor 5th year
8. O’Sullivan, Ben 6th year
9. O’Sullivan, Oisin 3rd year
10. Popov, Denis 3rd year
11. Sforza. Fabrizio 5th year
12. Sheerin, Peter 2nd year
Sub panel
1. Hayes, Sean 3rd year
2. Fenkher, Anton 4th year
3. Lecane, Mark 2nd year
4. Vidauski, Gleb 4th year
The last two players to make it into the squad of twelve going to the All Ireland Check-Mate competition on April 7th have earned their places. In addition a sub-panel of four players has emerged. All as a result of a two-hour play off of six games using clocks in the Blueroom. Congrats to Fabrizio Sforza and Jordan Murphy ( both fifth years) on making the team and Sean Hayes, Anton Fenkher, Mark Lecane and Gleb Vidauski (3rd, 4th, 2nd and 4th years respectively) making the sub-panel in that order.
The play-off will take place on Tuesday 28th March. 11.15-1.15
Room: Blue Room
Players:
1. Creedon, Cillian 4th year
2. Dolan, Ruadhan 3rd year
3. Fehnker, Anton 4th year
4. Hayes, Sean 3rd year
5. Lecane, Mark 2nd year
6. Murphy, Jordan 5th year
7. Sexton, Conor 2nd year
8. Sheil, Ciaran 4th year
9. Sforza, Fabrizio 5th year
10. Vidauski, Gleb 4th year
The Champions Team has yet to be announced but will be picked from the top players in ROCO Chess Club.
The sixteen first-year students listed below will form three novice teams of four players per team. The last group of four are the sub team. In the event of a player being out sick or unable to travel to a competition, a member of the sub team will be called upon to play.
Lawton, Jack
Murray, Joseph
Warlow, Sean
Zeng, Eoin
Cashman, Brady
Chen, Jackie
Lawton, David
McCarthy, Jack
Anand, Abhyudaya
Lyons, Glen
Magesh, Sanjay
Punch, Faolán
Connell, Taylor
Flannery, Stephen
Kordomlis, Kamil
Murnane, Jack
We will be entering three teams of four players (twelve players in total) for this prestigious event. The top ten are listed alphabetically below:
1. Athinson, James 3rd year
2. Cashman, Cian 5th year
3. Curran, Kieran 3rd year
4. Malone, Padraic 6th year
5. Moynihan, Diarmuid 6th year
6. O’Donovan, Conor 5th year
7. O’Sullivan, Ben 6th year
8. O’Sullivan, Oisin 3rd year
9. Popov, Denis 3rd year
10. Sheerin, Peter 2nd year
Six more students will emerge successfully from a play-off between the nine students listed alphabetically below. The top two will complete in the final team going to Limerick on the 7th April. The next four highest scoring players will form a sub-team in the event of any players above being ill or unable to travel on the 7th April.
11. Creedon, Cillian 4th year
12. Dolan, Ruadhan 3rd year
13. Fehnker, Anton 4th year
14. Hayes, Sean 3rd year
15. Lecane, Mark 2nd year
16. Murphy, Jordan 5th year
17. Sexton, Conor 2nd year
18. Sheil, Ciaran 4th year
19. Sforza, Fabrizio 5th year
