ICU Online Events

The links for next weeks events can be seen below.

There will be some prizes this week including ICU memberships and free entry to Jacob Aagaard's training seminar - https://www.icu.ie/events/1333


Monday 6th of April 6pm
ICU Blitz - https://lichess.org/tournament/KbMNnibF
Password – ICUBlitz

Tuesday 7th of April
ICU 960 - https://lichess.org/tournament/BAfn54CM
Password – 960
Start Time – 6pm

4NCL Live Stream - https://www.twitch.tv/fionchetta
Start Time – 7.30pm
WIM Fiona Stelli Antoni and FM Killian Delaney will be providing analysis of all the Irish teams competing in the 4NCL online competition.

Wednesday 8th of April 7pm
ICU Crazyhouse - https://lichess.org/tournament/FBxtldOa
Password – Crazyhouse
Time Control – 3/0

Thursday 9th of April 6pm
ICU Blitz – www.chess.com 11 round Swiss Blitz of 3/0.
Everyone needs to be a member of the chess.com ICU club https://www.chess.com/club/icu
It is recommended everyone joins as soon as possible as every member does need to be accepted.
Entry to the tournament will be open 1 hour prior to start time.

Saturday 11th of April 1pm
ICU Rapid - https://lichess.org/tournament/r90BJ3VC
Password – ICURapid
Time Control – 15 minutes + 10 seconds

Sunday 12th of April
FM Killian Delaney will run a webinar on how to prepare for games, using chessbase and other tools and how to analyse your games.
Start Time – 11am
https://www.facebook.com/events/1166583887017477/

I've been playing a lot of blitz since the lockdown and I can't get over the amount of people who just let their clocks run down instead of resigning. Where possible I send them a message saying "Get a life and don't be such a sad W~~~~r. If losing hurts your fragile ego so much then you shouldn't bother playing". It really is hard to understand the mentality of these cretins.

I see that there is going to be a European online chess championship! nice idea but how will cheating be prevented?????

Now the Glorney Gilbert etc junior internationals are announced to be played online at dates TBC.

https://www.icu.ie/events/989

How on earth are they going to prevent wholesale cheating?

sodacat11 wrote: »

Presumably each team will be in a
room with an arbiter present. No chance of cheating then unless the arbiter allows it and that is inconceivable.

Yes but that means assembling teams in one place which could be problematic with kids living in lots of different towns/cities, especially for the French?

Also various other issues could arise especially with the Robinson Cup (six kids under 12).

Arbiters in the various places will need to be in contact with each other and a Chief arbiter via Zoom or similar?

Worth a try I guess.

The Lindores Abbey tournament was excellent viewing! apart from the squeaky grating commentary by that Tania woman and the silly Armageddon finishes. I don't see why the players couldn't have played a blitz decider, something like 3 minutes each with a 2 second increment.
I've noticed that when footballers are interviewed they all start off answering questions with the inane "yeah no" (what the hell does that mean?? ) and then they proceed to say "you know" or "as I said" in every sentence. Chess players are becoming just as bad, the top players all seem incapable of speaking without throwing "I mean" into every sentence.