The Galway Chess Congress 2005 will be held at the same venue as last year but with a doubling of the prize fund to €10,000. See here for more details.

Galway Chess Congress 2004

was sponsored by Infopoint Systems

Sept 10-12 2004

Prize Fund: €5100

Venue: Corrib Great Southern hotel, Galway

The 2004 Galway Chess Congress was be held on Sep 10-12th 2004 in the Conference Centre in the Corrib Great Southern Hotel, Dublin Road, Galway.

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Infopoint Systems, there was a prize fund of €5100 for the following 4 sections listed below.

See here for the results from the Congress.

See here for the press release from the Congress

See here for a selection of photos from the Congress.

See here for the list of people who helped with the Congress.

The Galway Chess Congress 2005 will be held at the same venue as last year but with a doubling of the prize fund to €10,000. See here for more details.

Please note that players with ratings within 200pts of the next section up, will be allowed to enter the higher competition if they wish to.

The prize fund of €5100, sponsored by Infopoint Systems, is divided as follows:

*€200.00 to the best Irish non international titled player i.e. non I.M./G.M. in the Masters Section

The playing schedule was as follows:

Back to details of the Galway Chess Congress 2005.