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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
- Spring Rapidplay 2024 Results
The home of chess in Galway
The Galway Congress is only 2 weeks away!
Our big weekend for 2012 is nearly upon us (Oct 12-14) so its time to get your entries into us. Some notable entries received so far include:
- Denis Rombaldini IM (ITA)
- Alex Baburin GM
- Alex Lopez IM
- John Donaldson IM (US)
- David Fitzsimons
- Valentine Kalinins
- Charles McAleenan (SCO)
- Sabrina Reginato (ITA)
The web page for the Congress has all the information: Galway Chess Congress 2012
To avail of reduced rates (see Congress main page for rates) fill out an entry form and send it to us along with the entry fee.
MS Word document Entry Form: GCC 2012 Entry Form Document
Web Entry Form (for printing only): GCC 2012 Entry Form Web Page
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Another GM has just entered: Vlad-Cristian Jianu, from Romania: that’s 2 GMs and 3 IMs so far. We’ve also had so many entries from overseas (including from Australia) that we are thinking of renaming the tournament the Galway International. Irish entries are very welcome too, of course.
We’ll update the list of entries in the next few days.
Pete Morriss (for the Organizing Committee)
Congress Changes
There has been a minor change in the Congress timetable. In response to a request from a Dubliner, we have brought forward the start of the last round to 2.15 on Sunday, to make it less of a rush for anybody who wants to catch the last train towards Dublin, which leaves at 6.05. (Why is it so early? The last train from Dublin to Galway is a more reasonable 8.30.)
If you are catching the Dublin train, do let one of the organizers know before the start of the last round, and we will try to arrange a lift to the station from one of our local team if your game finishes late.