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- 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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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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