Ennis Open

The Ennis Open grew out of the North Munster Championship, a closed championship, being held in Ennis in 2005 and 2006. The inaugural Ennis Open was held in 2007 with a total of 59 competing in two sections. The first two editions of the Open incorporated the North Munster Championship.

2007

Auburn Lodge Hotel
13-15 April

1. GM Matthew Turner 5.5
2. Rory Quinn (North Munster Champion) 5.0
3. Karl McPhillips 4.5
4=7. Paul C. Kiely, Henke De Jonge, Frank Noonan, Sohail Gain 4.0
8. Nick Larter 3.5
9=16. Christy McInerney, Yoel Ferrer, Gerry Casey, Gabriel Mirza, Gearoidin Ui Laighleis, John Cassidy, Hugh Doyle, Ray O’Brien 3.0
17=19. Wayne Batt, Colin Mc Sweeney, Paddy Quinlan 2.5
20=22. Michael O’Donnell, Stefan Tomezack, Kieran Young 2.0
23=26. Robert Mc Kenna, Sarah M. Cormican, Aonghus J. Gannon, Michael Bradley 1.5
27. Paul Ward 0.0

2008

Auburn Lodge Hotel
18-20 April

1=2. Karl Mc Phillips (winner on tiebreak), IM Petr Neumann 5.5
3. Paul Walsh (North Munster Champion) 4.5
4=10. Rory Quinn, Pete Morriss, Anthony J. Aherne, Lasha Tsaboshvily, Bernd Thee, Denis O’Connell, Lorcan O’Toole 4.0
11=15. Gabor Horvath, Orett Stork, Paul C. Kiely, Nick Larter, Semyon Mkrtchyan 3.5
16=25. Kevin Behrendt, Gabriel Mirza, Kieran O’Brien, Pat Twomey, Peter J. Lynch, John Cassidy, Liam Ingram, Gerry Casey, Senan Bannon, Noel Ahern 3.0
26=30. Michael O’Donnell, Phillip Foenander, Christopher Young, Michael Bradley, Kevin Fitzpatrick 2.5
31=35. Christy McInerney, Oissine Murphy, Anthony J. Kiely, Denis Dempsey, Nicola Benson 2.0
36=37. Ronan Magee, Bryan Tobin 1.5
38. Shane Hall 1.0
39. Ljubisa Cirkovic 0.5
40. Kamil Galuska 0.0

2009

15-17 April

1=2. Mihai Suba, Kevin Spraggett 5.5
3=4. Petr Neumann, Peter Cafolla 4.5
5=9. Lasha Tsaboshvili, Anthony Fox, Oisin P. Benson, Paul Walsh, Rory Quinn 4.0
10=18. Philip Short, Gordon Freeman, Mark A. Collins, Frank Noonan, David B. Murray, Pat Twomey, Droboslav Kracik, Gabriel Mirza, Terry Creighton 3.5
19=26. Pete Morriss, Sarah Jane Hearne, Carl Jackson, Kieran O’Brien, Gerry Casey, Nick J. Larter, Senan M.W. Bannon, Paul C.Kiely 3.0
27=34. Ljubisa Cirkovic, Richard Flynn, Christy Mcinerney, Pat Coleman, Stephen Short, Bryan Tobin, Ray O’Brien, Sujith Manjooran 2.5
35=37. Kevin Fitzpatrick, Michael Surowka, Nicola Benson 2.0
38=43. William O’Keefe, Ruairi McKenna-Carroll, John Alfred, Turlough Kelly, Anne B. Coughlan, John A. Cormican 1.5
44. David Piercy 0.5
45. Zainal Zulkipli 0.0

2010

14-16 May

1. Jan Sodoma 5.5
2=5. Billy McGeary, Christian Daianu, Darko Polimac, Rory Quinn 4.5
6=8. Petr Neumann, Nick J. Larter, Dennis O’Donoghue 4.0
9=15. Paul Kiely, Paul Ward, Orison Carlile, David J. Smith, Ronan Magee, Brendan Lyons, Kieran O’Brien 3.5
16=21. Oissine Murphy, Pat Twomey, Gabriel Mirza, Ljubisa Cirkovic, Ray O’Brien, James McAree 3.0
22=27. Senan Bannon, Peter J. Lynch, John McKenna, Joseph Reid, Tom O’Sullivan, Phillip Foenander 2.5
28=33. Gerry Casey, Eoin Minnock, Anne B. Coughlan, Billy McKenna, Ruairi McKenna-Carroll, Michael O’Donnell 2.0
34=35. Stephen Danaher, Nicola Benson 1.5
36. John Bourke 1.0
37. Kevin Fitzpatrick 0.5
38. Terry Creighton 0.0

2011

Auburn Lodge Hotel
20-22 May

1. Gawain Jones 5.5
2=8. Vlad Jianu, Petr Neuman, Sue Maroroa, Jan Sodoma, Colm Daly, Aaron Summerscale, Rory Quinn 4.5
9=10. Orison Carlile, Arnaud Aoustin 4.0
11=23. Ronan Magee, Oissine Murphy, Pete Morriss, Joe McDonnell, Jan Heinrich, Peter Cafolla, Paul Walsh, Paul Kiely, Denis O’Connell, Pat Twomey, Seamus Duffy, William O’Keeffe, Brian Farragher 3.5
24=29. Michael O’Donnell, Gabriel Mirza, Senan Bannon, Paddy Quinlan, David Kiely, Liam Murphy 3.0
30=37. Nick Larter, Indranil Banerjee, David Baird, John Bourke, Gerry Casey, Oliver McNamara, Tim Dineen, Barry Foran 2.5
38=43. Cian Guinan, Geoffrey Keating, Bryan Tobin, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Denis Dempsey, Catherine Hearne 2.0
44=48. Robert Wall, Sean Guinan, Pat Meskell, Michael O’Connell, Phillip Foenander 1.5
49. David Piercy 1.0

2012

Auburn Lodge Hotel
18-20 May

1. Gawain Jones 5.5
2. Blair Connell 5.0
3=6. Mihai Suba, John Joyce, Simon K. Williams, Valentine Kalinins 4.5
7=10. Rory Quinn, Paul C. Kiely, Joseph A. McDonnell, James Danaher 4.0
11=16. Ronan Magee, Pat Twomey, William O’Keeffe, Sarah Jane Hearne, Gary P. O’Grady, Liam Murphy 3.5
17=23. David Baird, Wim Hoogstad, Nick J. Larter, Gerry Casey, Geoffrey Keating, Gabriel Mirza, Denis O’Connell 3.0
24=31. Sue Maroroa, Barry Foran, Diana Mirza, Tom O’Sullivan, Cian Guinan, Thomas Dunne Jnr, Kieran O’Brien, Catherine Hearne 2.5
32=36. Paddy Quinlan, Tim Dineen, Phillip Foenander, Brian Farragher,    John Bourke 2.0
37=39. David Piercy, Kenneth Higgins, Emmet Mordaunt 1.5
40=42. Kevin Fitzpatrick, Robert Wall, Michael O’Connell 1.0

2013

Auburn Lodge Hotel
17-19 May

1. Valentine Kalinins 5.5
2=3. Dragos Dumitrache, Nick J. Larter 5.0
4=5. Gordon Freeman, Rory Quinn 4.5
6=10. Pete Morriss, Eriki Korhonen, James Danaher, Thomas Dunne Jnr, Shahram Nikrow 4.0
11=15. Cian Guinan, Gerry Casey, Tom O’Gorman, Cristian-Clement Daianu, Diana Mirza 3.5
16=23. Geoffrey Keating, Orison Carlile, Kenneth Higgins, Barry Foran, Kensy Joseph, Gabriel Mirza, Pat Twomey, David Halpenny 3.0
24=28. John Dunne, Tim Dineen, Phillip Foenander, Joseph A. McDonnell, Shay Scott 2.5
29=31. Denis O’Connell, Sean Guinan, Matthew Gallagher 2.0
32=39. Denis Dempsey, Brian Farragher, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Robert Wall, Thomas Keating, Catherine Hearne, Anne B. Coughlan, John Bourke 1.5

2014

West County Hotel
23-25 May

1=4. IM Lucian Filip (Winner on tiebreak), Valentine Kalinins, FM David Fitzsimons, FM Colm Daly 5.0
5=9. FM John Delaney, Anthony J. Aherne, Rory Quinn, Jacob Miller, Patrick O’Sullivan 4.0
10=19. Drahoslav Stejskal, Paul C.Kiely, Michael O’Donnell, Jan Heinrich, Denis O’Connell, Tom O’Gorman, Diana Mirza, Orison Carlile, Geoffrey Keating, Brian O’Gorman 3.5
20=26. Thomas Dunne Jnr, Paddy Quinlan, Pat Twomey, Pat McMahon, John Aherne, Daniel Dwyer, Gerry Casey 3.0
27=34. Phillip Foenander, Colm Egan, Gabriel Mirza, Barry Foran, John P. Dunne, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Eugene Donohoe, Shay Scott 2.5
35=38. Tim Dineen, Sean Loftus, Gerald Hussey, Eric James Salsac 2.0
39=43. Tom O’ Sullivan, Paul Ward, Brian Farragher, Robbie Kildea, Anne B. Coughlan 1.5
44. John McKenna 1.0

2015

West County Hotel
15-17 May

1=2. Valentine Kalinins, GM Mircea-Emilian Parligras 5.5/6
3. WCM Diana Mirza 5.0
4. Gerard Artola 4.5
5=11. Drahoslav Stejskal, FM Colm Daly, Rudolf Tirziman, Kevin Singpurwala, Mark Halley, Tom O’Gorman, Paul C. Kiely 4.0
12=15. Denis O’Connell, James Danaher, Maurice Buckley, Thomas Dunne Jnr 3.5
16=24. Bogdan Neaga, Dovydas Pocevicius, Carlos Silva, Gabriel Mirza, Pat Twomey, Keegan O’Mahoney, Gerard Condon, Kenneth Higgins, Dean Copeland 3.0
25=30. Joseph A. McDonnell, Brian Farragher, Aaron Daly, Paddy Quinlan, Jason Rawlinson, Phillip Foenander 2.5
31=34. Paul Ward, Gerry Casey, Shay Scott, Kevin Fitzpatrick 2.0
35=39.  Barry Foran, Stephen Danaher, Anthony Breen, James O’Sullivan, Catherine Hearne 1.5
40. Gerald Hussey 0.5

2016

West Country Hotel
13-15 May

1. Lucian-Costin Miron 5.5
2=3. Anthony J. Aherne, Philip Short 5.0
4=6. Rory Quinn, Jan Heinrich, Henry Li 4.5
7=11. John Delaney, Tom O’Gorman, Stephen Jablon, Diana Mirza, Nick J. Larter 4.0
12=23. Shane Melaugh, Rudolf Tirziman, Tim Harding, Robert Murtagh, Pat Twomey, Denis O’Connell, Paul C. Kiely, Gavin Melaugh, Michael O’Donnell, Kieran O’Brien, Ray O’Rourke, Kenneth Higgins 3.5
24 =33. Anthony Breen, Luke Scott, Gabriel Mirza, Gerry Casey, Eric James Salsac, D. Gerry McCarthy, David Remenyik, Dean Copeland, Niall Fitzgerald, Maurice Buckley 3.0
34=40. Barry Foran, David O’Kelly, Andrew Barber, Mark Allen, Peter Carroll, Shay Scott, Phillip Foenander 2.5
41=47. Eamonn Lambden, Robbie Kildea, Sanjay Menon, Chris Armstrong, Dayna Ferguson, Felix Jordan, Paddy Quinlan 2.0
48=51. P.J. O’Reilly, James Naughton, Will Sidney, Ludmila Podzimkova, 1.5
52. Martin Fitzgerald 1.0
53. Con Kirby 0.5

2017

West Country Hotel
12-14 May

1. IM Lucian-Costin Miron 5.5
2=3. FM Colm Daly, FM Daniel Hristodorescu 5.0
4=5. Paul Walsh, Paul C. Kiely 4.5
6=8. Jan Heinrich, Gabriel Mirza, David Cormican 4.0
9=15. James Naughton, Nigel Fleming, Stephen Moran, D. Gerry McCarthy, Denis Ruchko, Gabriel Matthews, Barry Foran 3.5
16=26. Anatol Lokasto, Pat O’Hanlon, Phillip Foenander, Dylan Murphy, Nick J. Larter, Gerry Casey, Con Kirby, Niall O’Higgins, Len Hackett, Vahe Paronyan, Robert Murtagh 3.0
27=32. Maurice Buckley, Mariusz Lokasto, Vihanga Urala Gamage, Aaron Daly, David O’Kelly, Patrick O’Sullivan 2.5
33=36. Jasvinderpal Singh, Eugene Donohoe, Denis O’Connell, Shay Scott 2.0
37=40. Dayna Ferguson, Kynesha Ryder, Andrew Barber, David W. Reynolds, 1.5
41=42. WCM Diana Mirza (1 game), Robert Wall 1.0

2018

West County Hotel
11-13 May

1=3. IM Lucian Miron, FM Daniel Hristodorescu, Anthony Bourached 5.0/6
4=5. IM Alvaro Valdes Escobar, Dean Copeland 4.5
6=9. FM John Delaney, Paul A. Wallace, WFM Manuela Schmitz, Pete Morriss 4.0
10=14. FM Colm Daly, CM Andreas Arnold Schmitz, Gabriel Matthews, Andrew King, Kenneth Higgins 3.5
15=22. Nick J. Larter, Paul C. Kiely, Henk De Jonge, Vihanga Urala Gamage, Michael O’Donnell, Robbie Kildea, Con Kirby, Kynesha Ryder 3.0
23=33. James Danaher, Denis O’Connell, Bryan Chan, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Aaron Daly, Paul Coughlan, Barry Foran, Tom O’Sullivan, David O’Kelly, Stephen Danaher, Gerry Casey 2.5
34=36. Michael Joseph O’Connell, Jana Solomatina, Phillip Foenander 2.0
37=39. Shay Scott, Andrew Barber, Paddy Quinlan 1.5
40. Robert Wall 0.0

2019

West County Hotel
17-19 May

1. Marijus Vicas 5.5/6
2=3. FM Colm Daly, FM Conor O’Donnell 5.0
4. Blair Connell 4.5
5=10. Orison Carlile, Luke Scott, Peter Carroll, John Williams, Rafael Ninan Renji, Jonathan Pein 4.0
11=12. Jana Solomatina, Barry Foran 3.5
13=21. Con Kirby, Len Hackett, Nick J. Larter, Pete Morriss, Nikola Vintonjak, Alice O’Gorman, Paul C. Kiely, Pearse McDonnell, Simon Lawrence 3.0
22=29. George O’Brien, Ljubisa Cirkovic, Lukasz Daros, Henk De Jonge, David O’Kelly, Joseph A. McDonnell, Andrew Finnerty, Paul Coughlan 2.5
30=37. Michael O’Donnell, Ferenc Szucs, Peter Bonner, Gerry Casey, Phillip Foenander, Denis O’Connell, Niall P. Whelan, Cody Coughlan 2.0
38=39. Tim Dineen, Joe O’Hanlon 1.5
40. Kenneth Higgins 0.0

2020 NO TOURNAMENT

2021

West County Hotel
12 -14 November 2021

1. Blair Connell 5.0/5
2. Juan R. Rodriguez Fernandez 4.5
3=14. Rory Quinn, Markel Vesga Izeta, Kavin Venkatesan, Anthony Fox, John C. Kelly, Andrei Ivanov, Adam Collins, Alice O’Gorman, Peter Cafolla, Thomas Dunne Junior, Henk de Jonge, John Waldron 4.0
15=37. James Scarry, Cody Coughlan, Gerry Buckley, James Danaher, Conor Gunn, Jarek Wieczorek, Oisin O’Cuilleanain, Cian Guinan, Vjekoslav Novak, Con Kirby, Oisin O’Sullivan, Dennis O’Connell, Raphael Ninan Renji, James O’Sullivan, Dylan Murphy, Diarmaid Waldron, Shay Scott, Barry Foran, Shindgi Sumanth, Mike Bradley, Jamie Dowling, Jaiten Saini, Edward Loane 3.0
38=50. Niki Mullins, Surour Alneyadi, Joe O’Hanlon, Derek Stacey, Conor Sheehan, John Lucey, Gerry Casey, Michael Joseph O’Connell, Kevin Fitzpatrick, Corey Whelan, Niall P. Whelan, Fergal Gallagher, George Stack 2.5
51=66. Aaron Daly, Stephen Meaney, Renji Rajan, Jack McIntyre, Turki Almulhim, Roy Nascimento Marshall, Vladimir Mabhena, Denis Lynch, Georgie Casey, Charles Ridgeway, Tom O’Sullivan, Emmet Power, Siofra Finnerty, Chris McGorrian, Michael Scully, Nathan Jacob Renji 2.0
67=73. Andrew Finnerty, Phillip Foenander, Paul McGurran, John P. Dunne, David Racz, Dylan Collins, Harry Cummins 1.5
74=84. Ultan Breslin, Zoran Dragic, Matthew Thurm, Zara Sviridova, Phil Timlin, Jacob Carson Rennie, Vihan Patil, Mustafa Almashhadi , Craig Dubose, Jack McAuliffe, Mohammad Almulla 1.0
85=89. Szymon Wegrzyn, Rayan Alrasheed, Molly Mcnee, Alwaleed Alabassi. Emily Feisal 0.5
90. Anabella Stewartmiller 0.0

2022

West County Hotel
25-27 February 2022

1. IM Sam E Collins 5.0/5
2=3. FM Colm Daly, Sam O’Neill 4.5
4=18. GM Keith C. Arkell, Oissine Murphy, Jaume Ros Alonso, Denis Ruchko, Jacob Flynn, Kavin Venkatesan, Joe Fathallah, Cathal Keenan, Blair Connell, Ben Sheahan, Gavin Sheahan, Henk De Jonge, John C. Kelly, Con Kirby, Frank Noonan 4.0
19=28. Rafael Ninan Renji, Jude Luka, Jana Solomatina, John McSweeney, David O’Kelly, Cecil Sloan, Kevin Fitzpatrick, David Andreu, Sam Murray, James Scarry 3.5
29=54 . Paul C. Kiely, Andrey Ivanov, Jason Liu, Cian Guinan, Denis O’Connell, Niki Mullins, George Fearnhead, Paul A. Leavy, Gabriel Mirza, Michael Gilligan, Andrew Finnerty, Ritik Verma, Michael Joseph O’Connell, Atharva Paibir, Vihanga Gamage, Jarek Wieczorek, Stephen Meaney, Bogdan Neaga, James O’Sullivan, Adam McCoy, Eric Bennett, Oisin O’Cuilleanain, Georgie Casey, Zoran Dragic, Lakasz Baronowski, Michael Bradley 3.0
55=74. Emilio Meza, Liam O’Brien, Barry Foran, Luke Hayden, Pranav Karthikeyan, Arthur Moull, Roy Marshall, Joseph A. McDonnell, Niall P. Whelan, Jack McIntyre, Declan Voogt, George Stack, Oisin O’Sullivan, Paul Coughlan, Pat Meskell, Ivor Gordon, John Hensey, Sumanth Shindgi, Denis Lynch, Oscar Roe 2.5
75=100. Ciaran O’Reilly, Paddy Divilly, Joe O’Hanlon, Phillip Foenander, Alexey Marchenko, Daniel Lenggenhager, Jack O’Neill, John Lucey, Bedhbh Doolin, Conor Gunn, Cory Whelan, Polly McCormick, Sean Cosgrove, Ryan Dineen, Shane O’Donoghue, Stanislaw Ulbrych, Charles Ridgway, Renji Rajan, Edmond McIntyre, David Racz, Cyril Feerick, Derek Stacey, Michael Scully, Teni Mamolo, Alan Ryan, Ciaran Scott 2.0
101=116. Gerry Casey, Christy McInerney, Nemhain Doolin, Olegs Solomatins, David Cunningham, David Piercy, Nathan Jacob Renji, Shay Scott, Cian Grant, Mark McGrath, Desmond Martin, Filip Wolanin, Elizabeth Lawlor, Henry Hughes, James Melay, Macdara Mannion 1.5
117=128. Rory O’Connor, Keren Ziv, Vladimir Mabhena, Ross Du Berry, Ethan Mc Namara, Dylan Collins, Sean Mooney, Siofra Finnerty, Jasvinderpal Singh, Pat Tyrell, Donnacha Geoghehan, Viktoria Angelova, 1.0
129=130. Tony Ryan, Darragh Coughlan 0.5
131=132. Kevin Harkin, Luka Danjov 0.0

2023

West County Hotel
24-26 February

1=2. Blair N. Connell, IM Oleg Gubanov 4.5/5
(Connell won the Congress title after a blitz play-off)
3=9. GM Bogdan Lalic, Paul A. Wallace, FM Oscar Abraham Culbeaux Tello, Denis Ruchko, James Naughton, Kieran O’Brien, Cody Coughlan 4.0
10=13. FM Colm Daly, James Scarry, George Stack, Joseph A. McDonnell 3.5
14=23. Mark McGrath, Diego Pereiro Rodriguez, FM Rory Quinn, Alina Kononova, Conor Sheehan, David O’Kelly, Brian Gallagher, Orqo Hickey Paco, Jarek Wieczorek, Peter Koeller 3.0
24=36. Eric Bennett, Piotr Leichert, Darun Govindaraju, Denis O’Connell, Mohammad Mahbub Parouare, Bogdan Neaga, Henry Williams, Thomas Dunne Junior, Vivaan Verlekar, Declan Voogt, Ross Du Berry, Scott Reilly, Ruairi McKenna-Carroll 2.5
37=45. Robert Wall, James Kavanagh, Emmet O’Rourke, Oisin O’ Sullivan, Barry Foran, Tallann Maguire, Paul Ward, Pete Morriss, Shay Scott 2.0
46=52. Joseph O’Connell, Sergey Kolesnikov, Kenneth Higgins, Gourang Jiddewar, Niall P. Whelan, Eoin Lawless, Yanis Labidi 1.5
53=58. Andrejs Kozlovs, George Fearnhead, Tom O’Sullivan, John P. Dunne, Phillip Foenander, Phil Timlin 1.0
59. Kevin Fitzpatrick 0.5
60. Zoran Dragic 0.0