Div 3 Ennis Shield 2014 - 2015

L1m1tless

Another Super Exciting Ennis Shield ahead of us.

http://www.leinsterchess.com/lcu1415/div3/table.htm

My predictions

1st Naomh Barrog
2nd Elm mount
3rd Drogheda

cdeb

1 - Blanchardstown by a considerable distance. Having an FM on board 1 helps! Could be as high as 1600 on board 6 too. That's stronger than when we stormed the division in 08/09 with a record score.

I really don't know much about the other clubs tbh; haven't been keeping an eye on it since we got promoted two years ago. Naomh Barróg will be interesting though - they were ridiculously out-rated in the Heidenfeld last year, but performed spectacularly well. I don't see them challenging for promotion (unless they've improved), but their squad last year was relegation strength, yet I think they'll survive ok.

Past_Pawn_99

Blanchardstown 3.5 : 2.5 Ballinasloe

hotamatua

Ennis Shield today-Cavan 4.5-1.5 Rathmines

Past_Pawn_99

Cavan 2.5 - 3.5 Blanchardstown

Bad Bishop

Ballinasloe 6-0 Bray/Greystones

cdeb

Wow. Bray won their first game 5½-½, and then lost the second 6-0!

That can't have happened all that often.

hotamatua

Cavan 3-3 Balinasloe

Past_Pawn_99

Blanchardstown 6 - 0 Dublin

checknraise

Looks like an extremely close 3 horse race between Cavan, Ballinasloe and Blanchardstown.

caissa007

Malahide 2.5 Naomh Barróg 3.5

hotamatua

Cavan 5.5-0.5 Dublin

Chessrookie

Very impressive start by Cavan. They have already played Blanchardstown and Ballinalsoe and are well placed for a promotion push. Have a 2,000 on board 1 certainly helps.
dublin on the other hand look doomed already. Their round 5 game looks like another heavy defeat, while 3.5 points from 4 rounds is definitely relegation form.
Looking very like Cavan and the two B's for the promotion spots.

hotamatua

I would fancy Blanchardstown for the top spot.They have narrowly beaten us and Balinasloe so thats the potential tie breaker sorted if it even comes to that.Second will be a dog fight and Malahaide,Naomh Barrog and Rathmines are all jockeying for position along with Cavan and Balinasloe.

Past_Pawn_99

Longford 0 - 6 Blanchardstown

hotamatua

See what I mean!

Past_Pawn_99

hotamatua wrote: »

See what I mean!

Perfect timing

hotamatua

Cavan 3.5-1.5 Longford.One game to go next Wednesday.

Any word on Balinasloe v Drogheda today?

Bad Bishop

Ballinasloe 6-0 Drogheda

JohnDelaney

I would not write Dublin off just yet , they have probably the most experience of any of us! Also they have some tough matches out of the way.
That said there are an unusual number of big scores in the matches so far.

caissa007

Naomh Barróg 5-1 Rathmines

Past_Pawn_99

Blanchardstown 5 - 1 Naomh Barróg

Bad Bishop

Dublin 3 - 3 Ballinasloe

hotamatua

Cavan 3.5-2.5 Naomh Barrog

hotamatua

Cmon lads,any results today!

sinbad68

hotamatua wrote: »

Cmon lads,any results today!

May be you should put forward a motion for LCU , requiring all team captains to send a quick text after their match , so all results could be published same day , here or on another site ?

hotamatua

Dont know if all captains would comply if it was passedbut I have to say nearly all captains,eventually, post results on this site.

sinbad68

@hotamatua .Be patient ,it will be out in a few days anyway . more important things in life to worry about than this .If a motion passed , they would comply , twitter would be where it could be posted.

Bad Bishop

Ballinasloe 4- 2 Elm Mount

sinbad68

HOTMATUA , all ennis league saturday games are updated on leinsterchess.com . you only had to wait a day. if only could go to sleep with this sore throat.

Past_Pawn_99

Royal lopez 0.5 - 5.5 Blanchardstown

Bad Bishop

Longford 2 - 4 Ballinasloe

Past_Pawn_99

Blanchardstown 4 - Bray/Greystones 2

Mustafa Chess

Who won this last year

Past_Pawn_99

Inchicore, you can check all the results back to 2003 on the LCU website.

hotamatua

Cavan 5-1 Royal Lopez

RQ_ennis_chess

Ballinsaloe 5.5-0.5 Malahide

hotamatua

Cavan 5-1 Drogheda

mhalley91

Naomh Barrog 1 - 5 Ballinasloe.

Bad Bishop

Ballinasloe 5 - 1 Rathmines

hotamatua

Elm Mount 0.5-5.5 Cavan

pawntof4

Drogheda 2 - 4 Dublin

brianhere

Anyway congratulations to the two runaway teams in the Ennis this year, Blanchardstown and Ballinasloe. Mostly they burned up the field, getting annoyed with a 5 1/2 to 1/2 score when 6 0 was possible!

Interesting to see will they do the same in the Heidenfeld. They are both big clubs, with something 50 juniors meeting weekly.

And commiserations to Drogheda and Royal Lopez, who I think are the teams that went down.

L1m1tless

Congrats to all! Well deserved promotions!