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NEWS
- Galway come second in National Club Championshipby PeteGalway Chess Club came second in the National Club Championship, held in Dublin on the weekend of 26-28 April. In fact we came first equal with two other teams (Elm… Read more: Galway come second in National Club Championship
- April Blitz Resultsby PeteThe April Blitz Tournament, played on April 11th, ended with joint winners, Pete Morriss and Chris Jonker both scoring 6 points out of 7. The rating prize, for the highest-finishing player rated in the lower half of… Read more: April Blitz Results
- 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 come second in National Club Championship
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Coaching Evenings
As part of our new seson we held the first coaching sessinon on Thursday 21st Nov. Topic covered was endgame play with a focus on fundamentals of R+P endings. Next session is slated for Dec. 5th and we will look at Endings unruly cousin .. participants should bring a laptop computer (one machine between 4 players will do nicely).
Good luck to the Galway chess team this w/e in their first outing in the so called “Munster League”, enjoy it (if at all possible)!
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