Chess Scotland Juniors
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Quadrangular tournament 2007

U16 Captain Adam Bremnar

After winning this event by an embarrassingly wide margin last year, this year’s team could be forgiven for thinking all we had to do was turn up. The team comprising of Daniel Rocks, Clement Sreeves, Ian MacGregor, myself, Jamie Hookham and Jonathan Edwards, travelled down full of confidence especially after seeing our coach, Andrew Green, playing over his matches from last year. After a late night, the teams were woken early the next day for coaching and to be given the talk, “You are representing your country. Don’t take drugs,” and so on.

Round 1 – North of England

We went into this match expecting a comfortable victory, but both myself and Jonathan were about as good as a sour cream filled chocolate gateau, (just ask Calum MacQueen how this tastes), and slumped tragically to defeats. With this shock to the system the team realised we were in trouble. Fortunately, Jamie’s opponent walked into a mate, Ian won from a completely lost position, Clement converted his middle game edge, and Daniel did what came only too naturally for him and took a draw. 3.3-2.5

Round 2 – Midlands of England

This was supposed to be the better English team, but this time our bottom three boards all vented our anger at the morning’s results and showed why our team was just better. Three draws from the remaining boards were enough to win yet again and set us up to win against Wales to take the title. 4.5-1.5. After preparing the team’s acceptance speech it was off to get a carvery, with certain people making sure they got their money’s worth. This is what happens when team FAT is invited along to coach.

Round 3 – Wales

Yet again in these international tournaments it all came down to how much we could beat the Welsh by. Yet again we destroyed them. Their bottom board didn’t even turn up. Hopefully this pattern of wins will continue for many years.

With the final round over we had won against all three and every Scottish U16 player had accumulated more points than the combined Welsh team, this in itself tells the story of the weekend. Thanks has to go to our coach for his inspirational laptop, Donna for keeping us in line, Norrie and Maureen for keeping her in line, and to all the organisers for making this tournament possible.

Chess Scotland Juniors designed by kids, for kids!

Chess Scotland Juniors
designed by kids, for kids!