Div 4 O'Hanlon Cup 2014 - 2015

L1m1tless · 17-09-2014 5:32pm #1

Its that time of year again.

http://www.leinsterchess.com/lcu1415/div4/table.htm

My perdictions:

1st Curragh
2nd Round Towers
3rd Skerries

cdeb · 17-09-2014 11:29pm

1 - Round Tower
2 - Skerries
3 - St Benildus

11 - Phibsboro
12 - Celbridge

How are Aer Lingus faring? Very small club and they forfeited a few games last season. Will they grow and survive the season, or will they merge with someone like Malahide? Be a shame; nice place for a game is the ALSAA

L1m1tless · 28-09-2014 7:32pm

oooh Round Tower marginally lost their opening match. A very strong Div 4 this year

cdeb · 29-09-2014 7:08am

Has the league website changed from LeinsterChess.com to ChessLeague.net again so?

Sparks · 29-09-2014 8:47am

I was wondering where they were gone...

L1m1tless · 29-09-2014 8:53am

Both were updated last year

Ciaran · 29-09-2014 9:41am

I didn't know chessleague.net was still active. I hope they keep leinsterchess.com up to date, that's where everyone will go looking for tables and results. Hopefully it's just some disruption around the change in league controllers.

Sparks · 29-09-2014 10:12am

They're not being run off the same back end are they? So someone had to put the same data into two different websites all last year? That sucks, it's twice the effort for twice the potential for making mistakes...

cdeb · 30-09-2014 9:43am

Celbridge 4-2 St Benildus

Bit of a weakened team from us (two subs and no board 6), but still, not a great result considering we beat them 4½-1½ last year.

There's my predictions completely out the window!

cdeb · 02-10-2014 6:20pm

Bray 1½-3½ Aer Lingus

Bray forfeited on one board; all the others were draws (as is so often the case with Aer Lingus!)

cdeb · 03-10-2014 5:36pm

Inchicore 3½-2½ Phibsboro
Portmarnock 3-3 Elm Mount

L1m1tless · 04-10-2014 6:58pm

Skerries 2 Curragh 4

L1m1tless · 11-10-2014 6:14pm

Curragh 4 Bray 2

A much closer match than the scoreline suggests.

cdeb · 14-10-2014 5:48pm

Aer Lingus 3½-2½ Celbridge
Phibsboro 2½-3½ Portmarnock

cdeb · 16-10-2014 12:10am

St Benildus 2-3 Dún Laoghaire

One game to be played next week.

Not a bad result for us really. Dún Laoghaire are quite strong!

cdeb · 18-10-2014 12:08pm

Round Tower 4½-1½ Inchicore

Elm Mount v Skerries is on Monday, and the last game of St Benildus v Dún Laoghaire is on Wednesday. Will aim to have the league table updated by the end of the week (pending all scorecards being in of course), but for now, the league table is -

[B]Pos	Team	        MP	GW	GD	GL	Def	Pts[/B]
1	Curragh	        2	6	4	2	0	8    
[U]2	Aer Lingus	2	3	8	1	0	7    [/U]
3	Round Tower	2	5	4	3	0	7    
4	Celbridge	2	5	3	4	0	6 1/2
5	D&#250;n Laoghaire	1.83	4	5	2	0	6 1/2
6	Portmarnock	2	5	3	4	0	6 1/2
7	Inchicore	2	3	4	5	0	5    
8	Phibsboro	2	3	4	5	0	5    
9	St Benildus	1.83	3	2	6	0	4    
[U]10	Bray/Greystones	2	1	7	4	1	3 1/2[/U]
11	Elm Mount	1	2	2	2	0	3    
12	Skerries	1	1	2	3	0	2

cdeb · 30-10-2014 7:35pm

Dún Laoghaire 3½-2½ Celbridge

Slight issue with one of the round 2 scoresheets - it's gone missing, to be blunt! - but will have the league table updated on the website soon.

checknraise · 30-10-2014 7:57pm

I assumed everything was done online and the league table updated automatically once the results matched both captains score sheets. Shows you what i know!!

cdeb · 30-10-2014 8:03pm

Nope. It goes into a series of about 6 Excel spreadsheets, gets checked for contradictions and then gets sent on to the divisional controller to upload!

It may well be possible (probably should be possible) the way you suggest. But does anyone know how to code such a system?

cdeb · 31-10-2014 11:19am

Portmarnock 2-4 Round Tower
Inchicore 2-4 St Benildus

[B]Pos	Team	        MP	GW	GD	GL	Def	Pts[/B]
1	D&#250;n Laoghaire	3	8	6	4	0	11    
[U]2	Round Tower	3	8	6	4	0	11    [/U]
3	Celbridge	3	7	4	7	0	9    
4	Portmarnock	3	6	5	7	0	8 1/2
5	Curragh	        2	6	4	2	0	8    
6	St Benildus	3	6	4	8	0	8    
7	Aer Lingus	2	3	8	1	0	7    
8	Inchicore	3	4	6	8	0	7    
9	Elm Mount	2	5	2	5	0	6    
10	Phibsboro	2	3	4	5	0	5    
[U]11	Skerries	2	4	2	6	0	5    [/U]
12	Bray/Greystones	2	1	7	4	1	3 1/2

As a correction to my earlier post, I believe there's only one relegation spot this year due to Kilkenny's withdrawal from the Heidenfeld. So all divisions (bar the Armstrong and O'Sullivan) should be one down two up to compensate.

But don't hold me to that.

L1m1tless · 01-11-2014 7:17pm

Curragh 2.5 Aer Lingus 3.5

cdeb · 13-11-2014 9:49am

St Benildus 4½-1½ Portmarnock

L1m1tless · 15-11-2014 7:07pm

Elm Mount 2.5 Curragh 3.5

cdeb · 15-11-2014 10:27pm

Celbridge 2-4 Inchicore

cdeb · 18-11-2014 7:09pm

Phibsboro 1-5 Bray
Aer Lingus 2-4 Dún Laoghaire

cdeb · 03-12-2014 8:12pm

Skerries 6-0 St Benildus

Went through 15 players just to get 3 who could travel

L1m1tless · 06-12-2014 6:00pm

Curragh 6 Phibsboro 0

L1m1tless · 10-12-2014 9:45pm

AnAny result on Bray and Round Tower?

L1m1tless · 10-01-2015 7:02pm

Round Tower 3-3 Curragh

cdeb · 15-01-2015 8:03am

St Benildus 4.5-1.5 Bray

L1m1tless · 15-01-2015 2:34pm

Nice recovery! How did Dun Laoighre and Portmarnock get on last night?

cdeb · 15-01-2015 2:40pm

In fairness, Bray were very weak. They had four subs, and a 700 on board 2. We should be safe now, but nothing more than that.

cdeb · 15-01-2015 10:59pm

CowboyDreams wrote: »

Nice recovery! How did Dun Laoighre and Portmarnock get on last night?

3½-2½ to Dún Laoghaire

Means the table after round 6 is -

[B]Pos	Team	        MP	GW	GD	GL	Def	Pts[/B]
1	Round Tower	6	20	9	7	0	24 1/2
2	Curragh	        6	18	10	8	0	23    
3	Elm Mount	6	17	8	11	0	21    
4	D&#250;n Laoghaire	6	16	9	11	0	20 1/2
5	Skerries	6	18	2	16	0	19    
6	Aer Lingus	6	8	20	8	0	18    
7	Inchicore	6	13	10	13	0	18    
8	St Benildus	6	14	6	16	0	17    
9	Celbridge	6	13	7	16	0	16 1/2
10	Portmarnock	6	11	8	17	0	15    
11	Bray/Greystones	6	9	12	15	1	14    
12	Phibsboro	6	6	5	25	0	8 1/2

Hard to see a way back for Phibsboro. Elm Mount v Round Tower and Dún Laoghaire v Skerries next round.

L1m1tless · 19-01-2015 4:48pm

Officialy, 3 Teams to be promoted from Divisions 4-7 this year. This is due to only 1 team being relegated from Division 2.

Good news?!

cdeb · 19-01-2015 5:17pm

From divisions 3 to 7.

Good news? Yes if you're going for promotion. No if you're going for relegation!

I think in previous seasons, one down two up was the usual way to fix a gap in the leagues. I don't think it really matters which is used. It suits us as it makes promotion from the Bodley that bit easier and I don't think the O'Hanlon are in any relegation danger.

L1m1tless · 19-01-2015 5:23pm

It's good news for us too. I think you would be getting promotion from the Bodley in any case.

Only 2 teams are going up from the Ennis not 3.

cdeb · 19-01-2015 5:34pm

Duh. Of course.

We're flying in the Bodley, but this now means we can slip against ye and still be ok. Right now, it gives us a further one point gap back to non-promotion. It's nice.

Just realised our Bs are well down the bottom though! Oh well. Tis only a game sure.

L1m1tless · 19-01-2015 5:38pm

I'd much prefer to be fighting for promotion or relegation than to be mid table. Makes it more exciting to have something to play for!

cdeb · 19-01-2015 5:40pm

Well that's true alright. This has more spots going than one-down-two-up

EarlofCurragh · 19-01-2015 7:54pm

So the interesting question is...

Who will get 3rd place in Division 4, Elm Mount, D. Laoghaire or Skerries. Could/will D.L. overtake Curragh ?

L1m1tless · 19-01-2015 7:58pm

Still all to fight for. No plaques for 3rd place!

mikhail · 20-01-2015 4:18pm

cdeb wrote: »

... I think in previous seasons, one down two up was the usual way to fix a gap in the leagues. I don't think it really matters which is used...

It seems that there are many strong teams in the lower leagues at the moment, which makes the three up, two down system preferable in my opinion.

CowboyDreams wrote: »

I'd much prefer to be fighting for promotion or relegation than to be mid table. Makes it more exciting to have something to play for!

That too!

L1m1tless · 28-01-2015 12:49am

How did Dun Laoighaire do versus Skerries?

cdeb · 29-01-2015 8:04am

Dún Laoghaire 3½-2½ Skerries
Bray/Greystones 4½-1½ Celbridge
Phibsboro 1½-4½ Aer Lingus
Elm Mount 1½-4½ Round Tower

So the league table is -

[B]Pos	Team	        MP	GW	GD	GL	Def	Pts[/B]
1	Round Tower	7	24	10	8	0	29    
2	D&#250;n Laoghaire	7	19	10	13	0	24    
3	Curragh	        6	18	10	8	0	23    
4	Aer Lingus	7	12	21	9	0	22 1/2
5	Elm Mount	7	18	9	15	0	22 1/2
6	Skerries	7	20	3	19	0	21 1/2
7	Bray/Greystones	7	13	13	16	1	18 1/2
8	Celbridge	7	14	8	20	0	18    
9	Inchicore	6	13	10	13	0	18    
10	St Benildus	6	14	6	16	0	17    
11	Portmarnock	6	11	8	17	0	15    
12	Phibsboro	7	7	6	29	0	10

L1m1tless · 29-01-2015 4:48pm

Thanks cdeb, you are always on the ball with the results!

L1m1tless · 02-02-2015 12:22pm

Its looking like my predictions were all fairly close!

L1m1tless · 06-02-2015 8:29pm

Curragh V Benildus, Round 2 Tomorrow!

cdeb · 07-02-2015 6:15pm

Curragh 5-1 St Benildus

Round 3 at the end of the month (Bodley), followed by another Bodley game in March. We'll have to win one of those!

L1m1tless · 07-02-2015 6:43pm

I'm sure you will have a great chance! We are playing each other so much, we will have to make you all honourary members

L1m1tless · 12-02-2015 12:23am

any results from tonights matches?

L1m1tless · 14-02-2015 7:45pm

Celbridge .5 Curragh 5.5

Div 4 O'Hanlon Cup 2014 - 2015

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