Irish Chess Championship

The Irish Chess Championship is the national Championship of Ireland, currently run by the Irish Chess Union (ICU), the FIDE-recognised governing body for the game. Below is the list of champions. The first champion was J.A. Porterfield Rynd, who won the Dublin Chess Congress 1865 No. 3 Tournament, reserved for "amateurs, bona fide resident in Ireland for the 12 months prior to 1st September 1865".

The Irish Chess Association was founded in 1885. Its congresses of 1886 and 1889 included provision for determining the Irish Championship, and the winners were Richard Whieldon Barnett (later Sir Richard Barnett) and George D. Soffe, respectively.

The Hibernian Chess Association was established during the 1891–92 season, and held one Irish championship, in 1892, which was won by J.A. Porterfield Rynd.

Since its foundation in 1912 the Irish Chess Union has organised the Irish Chess Championships. The events ran sporadically at first, but have been held annually since 1924, except for suspension during 1941–45.

The Irish Chess Championship has run in various formats including a round robin competition, a match system, and a Swiss system competition. Since 2013, the championship has been organised as a 9-round Swiss event, open to players registered as IRL with FIDE, who meet a rating requirement.

Irish Women's Champions


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 * 1953 	Hilda F. Chater
 * 1954 	Hilda F. Chater
 * 1955 	Hilda F. Chater / Kay Doolan
 * 1957 	Hilda F. Chater
 * 1968 	Dorren O'Siochrú
 * 1969 	Catherine Byrne
 * 1970 	Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy
 * 1971 	Aileen Noonan / Cecile Meulien
 * 1972 	Dorren O'Siochrú
 * 1973 	Dorren O'Siochrú
 * 1976 	Dorren O'Siochrú
 * 1977 	Ann Teresa Delaney
 * 1980 	Suzanne Connolly / Ann Teresa Delaney
 * 1982 	Edel Quinn
 * 2010  April Cronin
 * 2012 	Karina Kruk
 * 2013 	Diana Mirza
 * 2014  Gearoidín Uí Laighleis
 * 2015  Monika Gedvilaite
 * 2016  Monika Gedvilaite
 * 2017  Ioana Miller
 * 2018  Ioana Miller
 * 2019  Ioana Miller
 * 2021  Alice O'Gorman
 * 2022  Trisha Kanyamarala

Senior / Veteran winners

 * 1999 	Andrew Thomson
 * 2000 	Jack Parker
 * 2001 	Andrew Thomson, Maurice Coveney
 * 2002 	Pat Loughrey, Maurice Coveney
 * 2003 	Maurice Coveney
 * 2004 	No information found
 * 2005 	Pat Loughrey
 * 2006 	Paul Cassidy, Colm Egan
 * 2007 	Paul Cassidy, Jack Killane
 * 2008 	Jack Killane, Paul Cassidy
 * 2009 	Paul Cassidy
 * 2010 	Colm Egan, Art Coldrick, Melvyn King
 * 2011 	Jack Killane
 * 2012 	Paul Cassidy
 * 2013 	Eamon Keogh / Jack Killane
 * 2014 	Pat Twomey / John Nicholson
 * 2015 	Tim Harding
 * 2016 	Eamon Keogh
 * 2017
 * 2018