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Lucan
Chess Club
November
2010
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In Round 5 we lost 3 - 5 to Celbridge. It
could have been much better, however -
Brendan missed a draw, and both Pat and John could have won (giving
us 4.5).
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We beat Tallaght 5 - 3 in Round 4,
which leaves us with 17.5 from 32, almost 55%.
October
2010
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Shane Brennan has been busy - he scored 3.5 in
the Limerick Monthly.
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Round 3 of the Heidenfeld, and things are getting better; 5 -
3 versus Phibsboro.
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Round 2 of the
Heidenfeld saw us in Kilkenny, where we came away with a narrow 4.5
- 3.5 victory.
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In the Galway weekender,
Anthony Bourached scored 2.5/6 in the Masters. In Round 2 he played
a very interesting game against GM Baburin, which can be found in the Games section.
Meanwhile, Shane Brennan scored a fine 4/6 for a
share of 10th-14th in the Majors.
September 2010
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Alan
lost an interesting game, leaving the final score
3 - 5.
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Round 1 of the Heidenfeld saw a 3 - 4 result versus a strong Elm
Mount team. Alan Lau's game will take place on Pat Fitzsimons' return
from the Olympiad.
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Anthony Bourached scored a creditable 3/6 in the
recent City of Dublin Major, while Alan Lau won the Novices
with a fine 5.5/6 performance.
July
2010
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Anthony Bourached played in
the recent Irish Intermediate Championship, where he scored 2½
from 5. One of his games is in the Games
section.
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The fixtures for the 2010/11 Leinster Leagues have been published
(see the LCU site). I'll publish them here soon.
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A major congress in scheduled for August in Dun Laoghaire. A
brochure with full details is in the club.
June 2010
Odds and Ends
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To
my knowledge, only two Lucan members have ever played in the Irish
Championship - John McMahon in 1960
(finishing 6th) and 1961 (when he
was joint 2nd!), and Jim Murray in 1971 (shared
9th to 15th) and 2007
(shared 30th to
38th).
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A
quote from Martin Amis - "...Chess waits in the wings,
taking deep breaths, ready to burst on to the stage as a planetary
spectator sport...Chess offers its audience the soap opera of opposed
personalities in genuinely bitter combat, deploying an unbounded
repetoire of feint, bluff, trap, poeticism, profundity, brilliancy,
together with a complementary array of blunders, howlers,
squanderings...What stands in its way? Not the epic slowness of the
game, nor its frieze-like immobility. What stands in the way is the gap,
the chasm, the abyss that lies between the watcher and the watched. The
difficulty is the thing separating the ordinary player from Garry
Kasparov. The difficulty is the
difficulty."
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