Took place at the Bridge club on Friday 22nd March. It was a close competition with 9 teams from 4 different schools competing for the title. The eventual winners were Craughwell, who won a play-off game with Scoil Ide to retain their title of Galway champions. Congratulations all, games were competitive, everyone put their energy into their thinking.
The schools finals this year was held again in the Ardilaun Hotel. One significant change from previous years .. the number of players on each team increased from 4 to 8 players. This was a big improvement as bigger school clubs could send 2 teams and get 16 players to experience playing for their school.
Congratulations to 3 schools playing in their first ever chess event .. Great to see both
Abbeyknockmoy and Oranmore Boys school ( via movesforlife.ie ) scored well and improved as the event went on . Tulach Uí Chadhain ( who practice a lot on Chessossity.com ) scored very well and were in the hunt for a top 3 finish.
The top two teams qualify for the All-Ireland finals. Both St. James, Bushy Park & winners St. Pat’s Galway have experienced the high level of chess in Dublin last year. And will be looking forward to a bigger testing ground later this year.
Entries are open for this years National Schools finals for mixed teams of 8 players and a separate event for girls teams of 4 players.
To register your schools team (and if you’ve any questions) please email brendan@chessossity.com
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| Teams of 8 players. The Aridlaun Hotel, Taylors Hill, Galway. Tuesday 19th March. 10.00 am to 3.00 pm €40 per team. | Teams of 4 players. The Bridge Centre, St. Mary’s Road, Galway. Friday 22nd March. 10.00 am to 3.00 pm €20 per team. |
There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in eache competition and the winners in both competitions will qualify for the All-Ireland finals in Dublin in June.
More than 20 young players spent their mid-term break developing their first chess openings and begun working on techniques for improving chess thinking skills … 7 more sessions remain between now and May 2019. Thanks to ICU Junior officer, Desmond Beatty for expanding this training program to Galway.
Congrats to all the participants at this years first kids chess event in Galway .. we had some good games of chess with the overall winner .. Shane Loughlin (well done) , and 2nd was Szymon Werzygn, 3rd Alekxander McAleer.
In the challengers section 1st was Sam Hickson , 2nd Macdara Mannion, and 3rd Daniel Action. Well done all the winners and participants.
Below is a flier for this years event. Hope to see many familiar faces and some new teams in Galway this March.
The junior chess club resumes for a second term mid-January and runs until April, just before the Easter holidays. Same venue (galway lawn tennis club) and same times .. from 7pm to 8pm.
New players always welcome and I hope to see all our current members again soon !
Good quality chess on show this November .. players taking their time to find the best moves, well done to everyone who took part:
click here to go start ..
And move up from a “little pawn” to become a “King of chess tactics”.
