The January Blitz was won by Pete Morriss, with 6½ points out of 7 (drawing with Brendan Buckley).  Second, for the second month in a row, was Alex Drimbarean on 6.  The grading prize went to Steven Branigan, who was third with 4½.

Congratulations to Denis Ruchko, who won the under-12 tournament in the Leinster Junior Championships with an excellent score of 4½ points out of 5.  As Galway isn’t (yet) in Leinster, whatever the hurlers seem to think, Denis is not officially the Leinster champion; but he went one better by coming out ahead of the (joint) Leinster […]

For the results of January’s rapid chess evening of Juniors V’s Seniors .. click here.   And for  Schools and children  interested in starting chess here’s a video..  youtube with details of an exciting new Schools chess competition. The competition is free to enter.  Many of our young Galway players are leading the qualifying at the […]

The December blitz was won, very convincingly, by Brendan Buckley, with 11/12, in an all-play-all.  Strangely, his one loss was aganst the lowest graded player.  Second was Alex Drimbarean, a long way back, on 8½.  The grading prize was won by Andrew Barber, with an impressive performance scoring 6 points, which put him fourth overall. We’re next back […]

Our final meeting of the year, on Thursday 18 December, will be a Festive Blitz Tournament.  This will be a normal blitz tournament, as we can’t think how to improve it, with a few little seasonal extras to eat whilst you’re there.  As usual, this will be at our club room in the Bridge Centre […]

Here are the results of Thursday 4th Dec.  .. there was a Re-draw on the nite to ensure everyone got a game.  League table is at this link.   Padraic O’T   (0)  –  (1)   Alex D.   Andrew B.   (0)  –  (1)    Brendan   Christopher   (0)  –  (1)   Andrejs K.  Harry Flm .  (0)  –  […]

Next Thursday (27 November) there will be an ‘unstructured’ or ‘social’ evening: in other words, nothing in particular is arranged and people are welcome to come along and play friendly games.  This is a good time for people new to the club, or thinking of joining, to come along and meet some of the regular members.  […]

A relatively small number of die-hards chose to ignore the Met Éireann weather warnings and come along to this month’s blitz tournament on 13 November.  All returned home safely, and they had a close and exciting tournament.  Joint winners were Pete Morriss – back from his exploits in Greece – and Jason Rawlinson, on 5½ […]

Here’s a link to the points table .. our next round will be held on Thursday 4th December.

Galway Club Chairperson , Mr. Pete Morriss has missed the 1st round of Galway’s club championship and will miss the 2nd round of the Winter Rapid .. .. for the chance to pit himself against some serious players, he’s just defeated Russian GM Vasiukov.  To see the game and more visit .. worldseniors2014.fide.com  (click on view pgn […]