Galway’s Denis Ruchko followed up coming first in the Leinster under-12s (see here) by gaining second place in the under-12 section of the Irish Championships, held recently in Dublin.  Click to see the full results here.  Hearty congratulations to Denis, and doubtless this will be the first of many such performances in Irish competitions. Zalan Nemeth also […]

Galway Chess Club AGM will take place at our club room in the Bridge Centre, starting at 8 p.m.  As usual we are looking for volunteers to help run the club, and ideas on how it can be even better. All are welcome to attend, but only paid-up members can vote.  Members can send motions for […]

Gerardo Artola Pola clinched victory in the 2014-15 Galway Winter League by drawing with Jason Rawlinson, in a hard fought game.  That puts him 1½ points ahead of the field, with one round to go.  This is the first time that the Winter League has been won with a round to spare since it was […]

The game between Carlos Silva and Wesley So, referred to in the item below, is now available here.

The club’s February blitz tournament was won by Brendan Buckley with 6½ points out of 7.  Second was Alex Drimbarean, with 6 points; this is the third month in a row that Alex has come second.  The rating prize winner was fourth-placed Carlos Silva, with 3½: he was also the only person to take any points off […]

Qualifiers for the Chess Mega Mind competition 2015 are as follows: The final will be on a school day (March 23rd), with registration at 10.30am – aiming to start at 11.00 am.  Each contestant will solve 10 puzzles in a puzzle book that they will receive on the day.  We’ll then show the answers to […]

In the pre-Bunratty simul, Wesley So, currently rated number 7 in the world, beat all his other challengers, but met his match in Galway’s Carlos Silva, who was unlucky only to get a draw from the game after being clearly winning for most of it.  This is arguably the best result ever achieved by a […]

Eamonn Abberton (in the Major section) and David Piercey (Minor) both won grading prizes in the Bunratty Chess tournament last weekend.  Congratulations to both of them!  Eamonn was playing for first place in the last round, but nobly allowed a young kid to get that title.  Other notable performances were by our young juniors Denis Ruchko […]

The 2015 Galway Chess Congress will take place in the Menlo Park Hotel, from Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th October.  Please mark in your diary. In response to feedback last year, we are thinking of changing the format by adopting an exciting new structure for the event.  The basic idea is that the sections will be […]

This Week, Thursday 5th we’ll play round 5 of our Juniors & Seniors Rapid event .. the draw will be made on the evening and everyone will get a game.  Below are details of a Junior competition for our Improving players and a training day for slightly older / more experienced junior players…