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Galway Rapidplay 2018: Saturday 26 May

  • 18-05-2018 2:32pm
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    Pete Morriss
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    The annual Galway Rapidplay will take place next Saturday (26 May). Full details are available here, but the gist is that it is a seven round tournament played at a rate of 15 minutes plus ten seconds increment per move, in the Bridge Centre, Galway. (A map showing the Bridge Centre's location is here.) You can enter by emailing us at galwaychess [at] gmail [dot] com before Friday 25th, and then paying the entry fee of €15 on arrival on Saturday morning between 10.15 and 10.45; or if you really insist you can just turn up unannounced before 10.45, but then you'll have to pay €25. Play will start at 11 prompt, and we expect to finish well before 7. Tea, coffee, excellent sandwiches and other goodies will be available to purchase at the venue. See the website link for the list of amazing prizes!


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    Pete Morriss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭Pete Morriss


    The annual Galway Rapidplay, held on Saturday 26 May, was won convincingly by top seed International Master Álvaro Valdés Escobar, from Chile. Álvaro won his first six games seemingly comfortably enough, before conceding a draw in his final game to finish on 6½ points. In second place was Irish champion Philip Short with 6 points: Philip lost to Álvaro in the tournament decider in round 5, and won all his remaining games.

    Whilst the first two places were decided quite early, the contest for the remaining prizes was a fierce one. Eventually they were shared amongst three players, all on 5 points: they were last year’s winner Colm Daly, Galway’s Denis Ruchko (who also won the junior prize for the third year in a row) and John Hensey from Westport (who also won the under-1500 rating prize).

    John Hensey’s performance was particularly noteworthy: not only did he finish third when seeded 25th out of 31 players, but in the last round he beat an Irish international rated over a thousand points higher than him. Whilst on the subject of giant-killers, mention must be made of Galway’s Zoran Dragic, who was rated flat last (based on a provisional ICU rating obtained in Bunratty) yet nevertheless ended up joint 6th, on 4½ points, beating no fewer than three players nominally rated a thousand points higher than him.

    Full standings, crosstable, and photos of the prize winners are on the Galway club website.


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