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- Spring Rapidplay 2024 Resultsby PeteOur Spring Rapidplay tournament was completed on Thursday 4 April. The winner was Pete Morriss, who scored 8 points out of a maximum of 9. Second was Eoin Callinan on… Read more: Spring Rapidplay 2024 Results
- March Blitz Resultsby PeteThe blitz tournament held on Thursday 7 March, played at our faster rate of 3 minutes plus 2 seconds increment, was won by Brian Gallagher with 8 points out of… Read more: March Blitz Results
- February Blitz resultsby PeteThe winner of the February Blitz, played on 8th February, was Simon Iwasaki, who scored 6/7. Second was Pete Morriss on 5½. The rating prize was won by Scott Reilly, with an excellent score… Read more: February Blitz results
- Galway club members do well in Sligo tournamentsby PeteSome news of achievements by our members in tournaments elsewhere in Ireland. First, two of our younger members braved Storm Isha in January to play in the Connaught Junior Championship in… Read more: Galway club members do well in Sligo tournaments
- January Blitz won by Alex Drimbareanby PeteThe January blitz, held on 18 January, was won by Alex Drimbarean, with 6 points out of 7. Second equal were Luke Iwasaki and Pete Morriss on 5. The rating… Read more: January Blitz won by Alex Drimbarean
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Alex Baburin wins Galway Congress for fourth time
The prestigious Galway Congress was won by Irish number one Grand Master Alex Baburin; he came equal first with International Master Vladimir Sveshnikov (who came all the way from Latvia for this event) but Baburin won the trophy with a better tie-break score. A full list of prize winners is below. The complete results for all players can be found here: Masters Majors Minors.
The tournament was a big success, with numbers significantly up on last year, and the venue of the Menlo Park Hotel proved very popular with the players.
The new Connaught Champion – the highest placed player who is living in or was born in Connaught – is Philip Short. Local prize winners include Conall Hegarty, of NUI Galway, who was first equal in the Majors section, and Galway Chess Club members Paul Ward, Anton Kalinichenko and Carlos Silva, who all won grading prizes. Also worth highlighting was the outstanding performance by Mihailo Manojlovic, who won the Minors tournament (under-1200) with a faultless score of 6/6, whilst his sister Anastasija came outright second on 5½.
Prize winners were as follows.
Masters Section. First equal: Alex Baburin and Vladimir Sveshnikov (Alex Baburin is Champion on tie-break); Third equal: Valentine Kalinins and Mel Ó Cinnéide
Grading prizes: (2000-2200): Conor O’Donell, David Murray, Gordon Freeman
(under 2000): First prize: Don Short; Second Prize: Ciaran Quinn, Stephen Short and Orison Carlile
Connaught Champion: Philip Short
Majors Section. First equal: Conall Hegarty, Pat McMahon and Minugas Janusaitis
Grading prizes: (1350-1600): John McMahon and Paul Ward
(under 1350) First prize: Eoin Connolly; Second prize: Anton Kalininchenko
Prize for the highest placed woman (donated by Menlo Park Hotel): Gearóidín Uí Laighléis
Minors Section. First: Mihailo Manojlovic; Second: Anastasija Manojlovic; Third equal Arran Bolger and Stephen Li
Grading prizes: (901-1000): Joseph Carthy, Alex Start, Alice O’Gorman
(701-900): Robbie Kildea
(700 or less): First Prize: Henry Start; Second Prize: Alex Byrne and Jonathon Peoples
(Unrated): Theo Bowyer, Eamonn Richardson and Carlos Silva
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Thanks Pete and your team for a well organized tournament. Great venue and liked that all games played in one room. Plenty of space for everyone.
Very impressed with one of your team, when asked by David Fitzsimons about how many moves played since a capture in a tough R+N v R ending vs Vladimir Sveshnikov, called out ’42’ without hesitation. Very classy!
Martin OG
Hi Pete,
Thanks for the tournament, it was really well organised, everything was running very smoothly. The new hotel was a good choice, we had very nice playing conditions.