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Galway Rapidplay: Saturday 18 June

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  • 26-04-2022 2:16pm
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    Pete Morriss
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭


    The Galway Rapidplay is back! It will take place on Saturday 18 June in the Galway Bridge Centre. Full information is on our webpage, but in brief there are seven rounds, at 15 minutes plus a ten second increment.  Start time is 11 a.m. (sharp) and we expect to finish before 7. Enter by emailing your name to us at galwaychess[at]gmail[dot]com before midday on Friday 17 June, and then paying the entry fee of €15 on arrival between 10.15 and 10.45. There are significant cash prizes (€200 first prize) - see the webpage for the complete list.

    We cater for grandmasters, beginners, and everybody in between, so that includes you. Get your entry in soon, to ensure your place.



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    Pete Morriss
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭Pete Morriss


    The 2022 Galway Rapidplay attracted 90 entries – about twice our previous highest number. Nearly a third of those were playing in their first tournament, which indicates the enthusiasm that there is for chess at the moment. If this continues, then Irish chess would seem to be in a very good place.

    The tournament was won by top-seed Colm Daly, who dropped just half a point – to Conall Hegarty. Second equal, half a point behind, were S Anand Kumar and Rory Quinn. In recognition of the large number of entries, we drastically increased the number of rating prizes and junior prizes, in each case from the advertised one up to four.  Winners were:

    Rating prizes winners: under-1500: Paul Ward and Jaiten Saini on 5 points; under-1000: Christopher Woods, also on 5 points; and unrated (for which there were two prizes): Gerard McLoughlin (again on 5 points) and Brian Gallagher (4½).

    Under-18 prize-winners were Lukian Hushpit and Christopher Woods again (both on 5 points), with a four-way tie for the third prize between Maryna Petrenko, Patrick O Keeffe, George Stack, and Patryk Brozynski (all 4½ points). The under-12 prize was won by nine-year-old Vivaan Verlekar (4½ points).

    Last, but definitely not least, the prize for the best female player was won by Alice O'Gorman, who was also fourth equal on 5½ points. Unusually for such category-prizes, it was decided in a head-to-head last round match-up between the two leading candidates, Alice and Maryna Petrenko, in which Alice prevailed.

    Photographs of the prize winners, plus full standings and cross-table, are available in our webpage.

    Looking forward to seeing even more of you next year!



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