Prizes: There are trophies for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place in the following age groups. Any player can win these pirzes. Sections: U-11, U-13, U-15. Plus titles of “Connaught Champion” for boys and girls in each section.
Note : Saturday one day events. (1) Girls only competition & (2) RapidPlay competition .. both on the 5th of Jan, starting at 12.00 pm.
All the event details .. here . Email brendan@chessossity.com to enter.
Congrats to all the players who took part in the Novenber competition .. we needed a number of blitz play-off games to decidet the winners of each section.
Advanced Section – 1st Eoghan Collins, 2nd Luke Scarry, 3rd Szymon Wegzyrn. Play-off 4th were Jack O’Connell, Ciaran & Odhran O’Driscoll. Improvers section – 1st Conor Keane , 2nd Conor Francis keane, 3rd Oscar Wychall and 4th Cathal McGinley. Best Girl player – Eabha Collins.
Location: The Bridge Center, St. Mary’s Rd, Galway.
Cost: €90 (€80
for siblings).
Timetable: From 10.30am to 4.00 pm each day.
To Book: Email .. brendan@chessossity.com
42 Galway players competed at the schools All-Ireland finals this year .. with St. Pat’s 3rd overall. And at the Girls All-Irelands 5 Galway teams competed .. here are the Star Performers in the 2019 finals !
Up in Dublin .. Galway was represented by 4 schools this year, here are most of our 42 strong player contingent. Friends and rivals.
The team that finished highest was St. Patricks .. 3rd place was a magnificent achievement indeed, and it was well deserved as these guys had put in the practice over the past two years and have played in ICU rated event this year to boost their playing standards. As our other schools built their way into the competition they found that they can pompete at this level, and now they’ve experienced this high level of chess I’m sure they will want to push on just a little bit more next year. Special Thanks to all the parents and schools that have supported chess this year .. hopefully you enjoyed this years junior chess journey.
Congratulations to St. Mary’s N.S. Donnybrook who became only the 2nd ever winner of the Cronin Cup. The top teams from the tournament qualified for the semi-fianals.
The 2019 champions
St. Rapheala’s Dublin played against Clairnbridge Galway, the match was a draw 2-2 and St. Rapheala’s progressed on a tie break. In the other Semi St. Marys eliminated last years champions from Craughwell Co. Galway on a score of 3-1.
Galway teams played out the 3rd & 4th placed match, which was a 2-2 draw .. once again Clairnbridge were on the wrong side of the “countback” and Craughwell took 3rd place.
St. Mary’s had their toughest match of the day in the final aganist St. Rapheala’s but after a long match experience and class got the new champions home.
Star player awards .. the best performer on each team earned a ‘star’ player prize.
The other teams continued with the league format and St. Rapheala’s were 1st & 2nd in this event .. it was a tie for 3rd, and to decide 3rd place the teams lined up for a blitz match: St. Catherine’s ‘Queens’ won the match against Scoil ide’s ‘the Queens’ to take a well deserved podium finish.
Teams from the Shield section – future Champs no doubt !
Winners of the Junior section .. Marcus Geary 1st , Jack McNulty2nd and 3rd was Roisin Walsh.Qverall winner was Sean Martyn, 2nd Ruadhan Dwyer and 3rd Jack Nolan.
