Chess lessons are offered again for those interested in improving at this game. The course will be run by club member Daniel Martinez Otero who is a highly rated player and experienced chess instructor. These lessons are for players of 18 years or older who know the basic rules of chess. It is recommended for unrated players and those with a rating below 1500.
Venue: The venue is Dublin Chess Club (United Arts Club at 3, Upper Fitzwilliam St., Dublin 2). Our room (Room No. 9) is located on the top floor of the building.
Structure: 13 lessons of 2 hours each on the following dates:

​This timetable is not definitive as some changes may be done due to working issues of the instructor. If you are not able to attend some of the lessons, the materials will be provided through email.
More exercises of the topic covered in the lesson will be provided after each lesson together with the lesson materials.
Price: The cost of attending the course is shown in the table below. This is equivalent to a very reasonable €8.1 per hour. An approximately 10% discount is available for Dublin Chess Club (DCC) or United Arts Club (UAC) members, even if you join the club at the start of the course.

After many battles over the Winter, this tournament in which 27 members competed, finally finished in early May.
In the Senior Division most players badly failed to arrange all of their matches. Davide Cesaro was an exception who finished with a score of 3.5/5 and was adjudged the overall winner.
The Intermediate Division was quite the opposite as all players completed all of their matches. Darren McLean was the outright winner with a terrific final score of 5/5.
The Junior Division was split into two sections A and B. The A winner was Dylan Conway with a fine 4/4 result. New member Tushar Jain prevailed in the B section scoring 4.5/5. As Dylan had gone abroad, in the A v B playoff final Tushar played against Matthew Brophy who had been the A section runner up. Tushar won this play off match and became the overall junior winner.

At the AGM held on Nov. 3rd. the following were elected to serve on the committee.
President: Eddie O'Connor, Hon. Secretary: Rory Broderick, Hon. Treasurer: Ronan Nolan.
Members: Daniel Otero, Malachy Hevehan, Luke Hayden, Vihanga Gamage.

 The club's Summer tournament this year had all games played over the board - a welcome return from online chess.
Robert Murtagh was the very worthy winner of the Senior Section which is the Club Championship, winning all of his matches in the process. Robert has now won this tournament three times in a row - a remarkable achievement.
Patrick Spillane won the Intermediate Section - also without dropping a match and earning full points.
The Junior Section attracted a lot of entries, many of them being new unrated members. It was split into two sections. David Gevorkyan won Section A and Conor Flynn topped Section B with David prevailing in the final between the two.

A blitz event was held in the club on Aug. 24 for new non fully rated members wishing to play on our Bodley team panel in the coming league. This was to assist our Bodley captain Malachy Hevehan in composing his panel of league players.
​Vikas Ojha was the outright winner with a score of 7/7. David Gevorkyan was the runner-up on 6/7.

In a welcome return to over the board team chess, Dublin CC entered two teams into the LCU Cup competitions just completed. Our first team, captained by Martin Schmidt, played in the Branagan where they enjoyed a fine 4 - 2 win in the final against Gonzaga on June 18.
​Our second team, captained by Vihanga Gamage, made it to the semi-final of the Killane where they were beaten by Dundalk in a close 3.5 - 2.5 result.