The first Rating Prize was won by Gourang Jiddewar, playing in his first tournament, with an excellent 5 points. Second equal were the two vanquished players in the tie-break – Pete Morriss and Andrew Barber. As previously reported, the tournament was won, after a tie-break finish, by Jason Rawlinson. The Winter League has now finished, and here are the final results.
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Photographs of the prize winners, plus full standings and cross-table, are available here. 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. 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. The under-12 prize was won by nine-year-old Vivaan Verlekar (4½ points). Under-18 prize-winners were Lukian Hushpit and C hristopher 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). Rating prizes winners were: 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). 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. Second equal, half a point behind, were S Anand Kumar and Rory Quinn. The tournament was won by top-seed Colm Daly, who dropped just half a point – to Conall Hegarty. If this continues, then Irish chess would seem to be in a very good place. Nearly a third of these were playing in their first tournament, which indicates the enthusiasm that there is for chess at the moment. held on Saturday 18 June at the Galway Bridge Centre, attracted 90 entries – about twice our previous highest number.
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