The Galway Chess Congress was held in the Menlo Park Hotel, Galway, on the weekend of 17-19 October. We are very grateful to the Menlo Park Hotel for providing such an excellent venue, and our sponsors: the Irish Chess Union and Blackthorne International, and Grandmaster Alex Baburin (who donated two books as prizes when, unfortunately, […]

The Galway Winter League (our name for the club championship) will start at the end of October.  This is a 7-round ICU-rated Swiss, which takes place at roughly monthly intervals over the winter.  (The scheduled dates for the rounds are in the calendar at the right; games do not have to be played on the […]

The October blitz was a tight contest, not decided until the final round – although we did have an outright winner for a change,  The winner was Brendan Buckley with 6/7: after losing his first round game, he then swept all before him.  Second equal were Conall Hegarty and Pete Morriss, on 5 points.  The […]

First league table can be found .. here.

Our first blitz tournament of the season continued the trend from the last Winter League: nobody wanted to win it!  We ended up with a five-way tie for first place, on 5 points out of 7, between newcomer Jonathan Melling, Jason Rawlinson, Brendan Buckley, Alex Drimbarean, and Pete Morriss.  For once, not a single game […]

We are returning to our winter home of the Bridge Centre on Thursday 18 September; we will be there until summer 2015, meeting every Thursday – except over Christmas/ New Year and Easter. We will start off, as has become traditional, with a blitz tournament on the 18th.  Everybody is very welcome: both familiar faces […]

This season a Winter Rapid Play event starts on Thursday 2nd October.  The league is open to everyone, to join email your entry to ..  brendan@chessossity.com The Irish U-16 champions: Timetable :  Games will be played on the first Thursday of each month.   (1) 2nd Oct,   (2) 6th Nov,   (3) 4th Dec,  (4) 8th […]

Galway Chess Congress will take place on the weekend of October 17-19, in the Menlo Park Hotel (the same venue as last year).  Full information about the tournament, and entry forms, can be found here. For those of you who have been before, everything is much the same as last year, except now you can, […]

Once again, two of the five players in the Irish under-18 team, which is playing for the Glorney Cup in Scotland next week, against teams from England, Scotland, and Wales, are from Galway: the two are Oissine Murphy and John Cormican.  The event runs from Monday 4 August to Wednesday 6 August, and you can follow Oissine’s […]

(report by Paul Ward) A great achievement by the Galway Chess Club in retaining the Connaught League Trophy for another year! In round 1 we were successful in beating the strong Ballinasloe team 3:2 in Ballinasloe. The match was very tense and evenly fought. I got a lucky break with a quick win due to […]