Blitzes

The Galway Chess club has had a fairly recent tradition of running several blitzes each year, sometimes as often as once a month.

A chess blitz is a small tournament which is run over about 2 hours on one night with between 5 and 7 rounds. For each round, players are limited to a small amount of time (usually 10 minutes) each for all of their moves. If you run out of time, you lose. This tends to concentrate the mind!

Sometimes we handicap the better players by giving them less time, in the hope that this will even up the struggle. This tends to be a bit more stressful for the higher ranked player who can have as little as 3 minutes for all of their moves.

Monthly Chess Blitzes 2008/09

18 Dec 2008: This tournament was time-handicapped to even things out so there was no grading prizes. The tournament was won by Zaidan Zulkipli with Fintan Hegarty in second and Brendan Buckley third. See results here

20 Nov 2008: The tournament was won by Oissine Murphy with Pete Morriss runner-up. Andrew Staunton got the grading prize. See results here.

30 Oct 2008:18 players entered this blitz. The tournament was won by Pete Morriss with Dave Path runner-up. The grading prizes was split between Felix Calleja and Roseanne Waters. See results here.

18 Sep 2008:19 players entered the first monthly blitz of the 2008/09 season. The winner was David Path on 5.5/6 with Rory Quinn in second and Pete Morriss and Lorcan O'Toole tied for third. Grading prize went to Cormac Anderson. and David See results here.

Results from blitzes from previous seasons are archived here.