It’ll be no surprise to members of the Galway chess club that these 3, have followed up their impressive form in the Galway winter league with title wins at this year all Ireland event. Denis is the Irish junior champion , Zalan is the U-16 Irish junior champion & Kynesha is the girls u-16 champion.  […]

Over 120 students from 12 schools took part in this years Galway national schools Chess finals .. the top 2 schools go forward to the the national finals, to be held in Gonzaga College on Saturday 22nd April.  Event report here.

Just under a hundred players took part in the 2017 Galway Congress. The numbers were reduced a little as inexplicably the Leinster Schools Chess Association chose to schedule its finals on a date that clashed, thus depriving many of the most active juniors in Leinster of the opportunity of playing in one of Ireland’s leading […]

On Friday the 3rd of March, the Bridge Club Galway played host to the 4th edition of the Connaught Cup .. here is a link for the full results .. many of the players involved will be in action again next w/e in the Galway Congress !

The largest contingent of Galway players for some years headed down to Bunratty to play in the 2017 Bunratty Chess Festival. The strongest two performances were by Galway residents Philip Short, who scored 3½ points out of 6 in the Masters section, which secured 15th place (one place ahead of Grand Master and previous world […]

There were rather fewer players in the February blitz, held on Thursday 23 February, than there have been over the past few months; nevertheless, many exciting games were played and there were some unexpected results. The grading prize went to Kynesha Ryder, for the second time in three months, with an excellent 4 out of […]

The January blitz, held on Thursday 26th, was won by Pete Morriss, on 6/7 (losing only to December’s winner, Fintan Hegarty). Second was the reigning Winter League champion, Carlos Silva, on 5½ – losing to Pete, and drawing with Denis Ruchko after a long rook and pawn ending which Carlos managed to hold a pawn […]

The 2017 Galway Chess Congress will be held in the Menlo Park Hotel on the weekend of 10th to 12th March. There are three sections, which cater for everybody from Grand Masters to beginners. Full information, including how to enter, is available at the Galway Congress 2017 tab, above.

w/e 6th – 8th Jan  ..   The Mulcahy Memorial Competition in Cork ..  The tournament report can be found on icu.ie Congratulations to Zalan Nemeth (a recent winner in Kilkenny) who scored with 4/6 against avg. rating of 1850.  And to Denis Ruchko who was on 4/5  going into the last round, but came up […]

Our Christmas blitz tournament saw the largest attendance at the club for several years, including some past members who hadn’t been seen for far too long: it’s amazing what the offer of mince pies can do! The surprise winner was Fintan Hegarty who, although rated in the lower half, scored an outstanding 6/7. He started […]