Sligo Chess & Culture Festival 2026—Major openings index

Sligo Chess & Culture Festival 2026—Major

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Openings index

A13	English
	Latorre – Fitzpatrick	½-½	24

A16	English, 1....Nf6 2.Nc3
	Brown – Grant	1-0	23

A22	English, 1....e5 2.Nc3 Nf6
	Vandurme – Boyle	0-1	30

A25	English, closed system
	Vandurme – Ramesh	1-0	33

A40	Queen's pawn
	Putar – Dimitrov	1-0	25
	Prior – Dimitrov	0-1	21
	Godson O'Doherty – Boldijar	½-½	52

A41	Queen's Pawn
	Burke – O'Connell	1-0	34

A45	Queen's pawn game
	Fitzpatrick – Burke	½-½	53

A53	Old Indian defence
	Gilmore – Grant	½-½	32

B01	Scandinavian (centre counter) defence
	Schwab – Martin	0-1	33
	Kavanagh – Pentony	1-0	47
	Bhushan – Schwab	1-0	52
	Ramesh – Schwab	1-0	27
	Schwab – Pentony	½-½	27

B07	Pirc defence
	Pentony – O'Connell	0-1	31

B08	Pirc classical (two knights) system
	Pentony – Boldijar	0-1	51
	Schwab – O'Connell	1-0	72
	Gilmore – Boldijar	0-1	54

B10	Caro-Kann defence
	Whelan – Kavanagh	1-0	37
	Kavanagh – Vandurme	½-½	23
	Whelan – Bhushan	½-½	24

B17	Caro-Kann, Steinitz variation
	Bhushan – Latorre	½-½	25

B44	Sicilian, 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6
	Boyle – Mabhena	1-0	58

B50	Sicilian, 2.Nf3 d6
	Downey – Gilmore	0-1	56

C00	French defence
	Ramesh – Godson O'Doherty	0-1	74
	Mabhena – Godson O'Doherty	0-1	41
	Boyle – Quinn	0-1	48

C01	French, exchange variation
	Mabhena – Putar	½-½	41

C02	French, advance variation
	Rudroju – Quinn	½-½	47

C11	French, 3.Nc3 Nf6
	Sharma – Quinn	½-½	21

C24	Bishop's opening
	Dimitrov – Downey	1-0	36

C25	Vienna game
	Gleeson – Rudroju	1-0	56

C30	King's gambit
	Gleeson – Brown	1-0	24

C40	King's knight opening
	Grant – Ramesh	0-1	65

C50	King's pawn game
	Boyle – Downey	1-0	52
	Martin – Boyle	½-½	43
	Downey – Prior	½-½	56
	Rudroju – Downey	1-0	28

C55	Two knights defence
	Whelan – Gleeson	1-0	43
	Rudroju – Prior	0-1	35

C77	Ruy Lopez, Morphy defence
	Martin – Sharma	½-½	20

D00	Queen's pawn game
	Burke – Bhushan	½-½	34
	Quinn – Gilmore	1-0	40
	Burke – Ramesh	1-0	62
	Quinn – Bhushan	0-1	54
	Grant – Latorre	½-½	50
	Latorre – Prior	0-1	41

D02	Queen's pawn game
	Boldijar – Whelan	0-1	62
	Brown – Fitzpatrick	1-0	19
	Brown – Martin	1-0	33

D04	Queen's pawn game
	O'Connell – Gleeson	0-1	22

D05	Queen's pawn game
	O'Connell – Rudroju	1-0	39

D10	Slav defence
	Godson O'Doherty – Brown	1-0	29

D11	Slav, 3.Nf3
	Putar – Martin	½-½	18
	Putar – Kavanagh	1-0	41

D20	Queen's gambit accepted
	Godson O'Doherty – Whelan	0-1	47

D30	Queen's gambit declined
	Dimitrov – Gleeson	1-0	58

D45	QGD semi-Slav, 5.e3
	Latorre – Sharma	0-1	35

D85	Grünfeld exchange variation
	Gilmore – Putar	½-½	22

E60	King's Indian defence
	Boldijar – Burke	1-0	36

E61	King's Indian, Smyslov system
	Prior – Vandurme	0-1	41