On Thursday 28 September we will host the first session of our Autumn Rapidplay tournament. Each player will have three games during the evening, and will have 15 minutes to make all their moves per game, plus an extra 10 seconds for each move they make. You can register for this by turning up between 7 and […]

Galway Chess club’s season continues with an evening particularly for adult beginners on Thursday 21 September. If you think of yourself as a beginner at chess, and would like to meet other beginners and receive some instruction from our more experienced members, then do come along to the club in Galway Bridge Centre (upstairs) any […]

Galway Chess Club’s 2023-4 season will open with a blitz tournament in our usual venue of upstairs in the Galway Bridge Centre , St Mary’s Road. Entry is from 7.00 p.m. to 7.20, with play starting at 7.30 prompt. (Please note that this is thirty minutes earlier than in recent years. If you can’t make […]

The 2023 Galway Rapidplay was held on Saturday 17 June. There was an unprecedented interest in playing in this tournament, and we had to close entries four weeks before the tournament took place, by which time we had already reached the venue’s capacity. Joint winners, on 6 points, were Lukian Hushpit and Pratik Mulay. There […]

The annual Galway Rapidplay will be held this year on Saturday 17 June in the Galway Bridge Centre.  You will need to enter in advance; you can do that from the “Galway Rapidplay 2023” tab above, which also contains further information about the tournament.  Numbers will be limited to 80; we had more entries than […]

The final standings and cross-table of the Galway Chess Congress are available on our Congress page.  The top section was won by FM Rory Quinn, on tie-break from FM Colm Daly, with IM Oleg Gubanov third.  Section B was won by Emma Fougerat, Section C by Vivaan Verlekar, Section D by Robert Nielsen, and Section […]

Our next monthly (or near-monthly) blitz tournament will be held on Thursday 16 March, in our usual venue, the Bridge Centre (upstairs), St Mary’s Road. Please be there between 7.30 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. to enter. It will be in our standard format: 7 rounds, played at 5 minutes per player for the game, plus […]

We will be running a rapidplay tournament every three or four weeks throughout the spring at our usual venue of upstairs in the Bridge Centre, St Mary’s Road. The format will be the same as the autumn one, i.e. you will play three games in an evening, and your scores over the weeks will be […]

Our next blitz tournament will be on Thursday 23 February, in our usual venue, the Bridge Centre (upstairs), St Mary’s Road. Please be there between 7.30 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. to enter. It will be in our standard format: 7 rounds, played at 5 minutes per player for the game, plus a 5 second increment […]

Our next blitz tournament will be on Thursday 2nd February, in our usual venue, the Bridge Centre (upstairs), St Mary’s Road. Please be there between 7.30 and 7.45 to enter. It will be in our standard format: 7 rounds, played at 5 minutes per player for the game, plus a 5 second increment per move. […]