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- Season Opening Blitz Tournament (19 September) resultsby PeteOur Opening Blitz tournament was won by Christy O’Sullivan, with 6 points out of 7. This was Christy’s first appearance in Galway Chess Club, although he played a lot in… Read more: Season Opening Blitz Tournament (19 September) results
- August Blitz Resultsby PeteThe August Blitz was won by newcomer Ronaldo Alonso, with 5½ points out of 7. Second equal were another newcomer, Oleksandr Skorobogatko, and very-much-not-a-newcomer Michael O’Donnell, who both scored 5… Read more: August Blitz Results
- July Blitz Resultsby PeteThe July blitz tournament was a truly international one, as we were delighted to welcome visitors from the Czech Republic and Barcelona – and even Mayo – which made it a somewhat stronger… Read more: July Blitz Results
- June Blitz Resultsby PeteOur June blitz was won by Chris Jonker, who won all his games – a rare event in our blitz tournaments. Second was Alex Drimbarean. The rating prize (highest finish of someone… Read more: June Blitz Results
- May Blitz Resultsby PeteOur season-ending blitz tournament, held on 16th May, was won by Pete Morriss, who scored 5½ points out of a possible 7. Second was Lorcan Heron, on 5 points; he… Read more: May Blitz Results
- Season Opening Blitz Tournament (19 September) results
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Galway Rapidplay: Saturday 8 June 2019
This year’s Galway Rapidplay will take place on Saturday 8 June, at the Bridge Centre, St Mary’s Road, Galway. (For the location of the Bridge Centre, see here.) The format will be seven rounds, with each player having 15 minutes to make all their moves, plus an extra ten seconds for each move. The event will start at 11 a.m. (prompt!), and we expect that it will finish by 7 p.m. To enter, email your name and details to us at galwaychess [at] gmail [dot] com by midday on Friday 7th, and pay the entry fee of €15 on arrival between 10 and 10.45 a.m.. Full information about the tournament is available in the Rapidplay 2019 tab above.
Coffee, tea, soft drinks, and sandwiches and other nourishment will be available to purchase at the venue.
We are looking forward to seeing you – if you have any queries please do ask us.
| Entrant | Rating |
|---|---|
| Colm Daly | 2236 |
| Rory Quinn | 2138 |
| Ciaran Quinn | 2055 |
| Johannes Hertel | 1989 |
| Tarun Kanyamarala | 1986 |
| Brendan Buckley | 1951 |
| Jacob Flynn | 1943 |
| Dara Murphy | 1907 |
| Conall Hegarty | 1821 |
| Trisha Kanyamarala | 1761 |
| Jason Rawlinson` | 1741 |
| Phillip Foenander | 1710 |
| Kenneth Higgins | 1657 |
| Leon Putar | 1651 |
| Christopher Armstrong | 1593 |
| Fintan Hegarty | 1591 |
| Joe McDonnell | 1569 |
| Slavko Putar | 1568 |
| Andrejs Kozlovs | 1559 |
| Zoran Dragic | 1524 |
| David Cormican | 1504 |
| Paddy Divilly | 1503 |
| Andrew Barber | 1395 |
| Lukasz Daros | 1321 |
| Aoife Castle | 1265 |
| Andrew Finnerty | 1182 |
| Hamza Selman Celik | 1148 |
| James Blackwell | 1079 |
| John O'Dowd | 1074 |
| Bill Delee | 1042 |
| John Bourke | 946 |
| Seán Durnin | 934 |
| Ian Finnerty | 907 |
| David Cunningham | 880 |
| James Mulvey | 873 |
| Yuliya Makarenko | 772 |
| Sumanth Shindgi | 758 |
| Szymon Wegrzyn | 734 |
| Scott Reilly | 666 |
| Morgan O'Loughlin | 639 |
| Oscar Roe | 636 |
| Aleksandr Mc Aleer | 247 |
| Ben Arthur | |
| Richard Casserly |
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