Rounds 3 & 4 of the Munster League were on Sunday in Charleville, players were Diego Rodriguez, David Andreu, James Blackwell, Zoran Dragic and Scott Reilly. We ended up winning both games against strong competition! We finished with a score of 3 – 2 against Cork B, with some hard fought wins. Our second game […]

The November Blitz saw a rather disappointing turnout: less than half the number we had in October.  Where were you all?  You missed a very exciting tournament, with the lead changing hands several times, and eventually ending up in a four-way tie on 5 points out of 7, between Brian Gallagher, Jason Rawlinson, Pete Morriss, […]

Our November Blitz will be on Thursday 28 November, just getting in before the end of the month, at our usual venue of upstairs in the Bridge Centre, St. Mary’s Road.  We’ll play seven rounds, at 5 minutes each per game plus an increment of 5 seconds a move.  Start time is 7.45, and we […]

Over the weekend the Galway team played in the first 2 rounds of the Munster League, players were Diego Rodriguez, Jason Rawlinson, Andrew Finnerty, James Blackwell and Zoran Dragic. Ian Finnerty could not be convinced to play and instead helped as team cheerleader. Each round consisted of 75 min + 15 sec games, first against […]

On the Friday the 3rd & Saturday the 4th of January  the Connaught Junior Championships will take place in Galway’s bridge centre, event details are here. To register email  ..  brendan @ chessossity . com 

As part of our new seson we held the first coaching sessinon on Thursday 21st Nov.  Topic covered was endgame play with a focus on fundamentals of R+P endings.  Next session is slated for Dec. 5th and we will look at Endings unruly cousin .. participants should bring a laptop computer (one machine between 4 […]

There was another good turnout for our extra, Halloween, blitz, although nobody arrived in costume (thankfully).  And there was tight competition for the top place, which was eventually shared between Johannes Hertel and Jason Rawlinson, with 6 points out of 7: Johannes won their individual game in round 4, but then lost to Diego Rodriguez […]

The beautiful bank holiday weather did not manage to deter some Galway players taking part in the Limerick Open. In the open section Denis Ruchko took home 4/6 points finishing 5th overall including a draw against FM Henry Li. Andrejs Kozlovs finished with 3/6 points and Andrew Finnerty finished with 2.5/6 points performing above his […]

Since there was such a large and enthusiastic turnout for the regular October blitz, we are adding another, extra, one as a special treat, and to give you something to do on Halloween to avoid being tricked or treated.  At present the format will be normal: 7 rounds at a speed of 5 minutes each […]

The Galway Winter League (our club championship), is an ICU-rated competition which runs from October through April, and the first round kicks off next week (Thursday, October 24th). Competitors will play one classical game per month, scoring 1 point for a win and a 1/2 point for a draw, and in the usual fashion, players […]